Cop Murders Innocent Unarmed Dad in Front of Kids While Rescuing a Dog—Court Denies Cop Immunity
A 30-year-old father, Robert Earl Lawrence was shot and killed by police
In a rare move, the court sided with the family
Dothan, Ala., Sergeant Adrianne Woodruff should have known that using deadly force on Robert Lawrence wasn't warranted under the circumstances, the Eleventh Circuit Judge Ed Carnes said.
"A reasonable officer in Woodruff's position, making an arrest for
The horrifying dashcam video was kept secret for years showing the officer executes this otherwise entirely innocent father
On Dec. 30, 2014, Lawrence and his three young children-all under 10-years-old-found a stray dog
After they put the dog in their car, the family drove to the Dothan Animal Shelter
Instead of accepting this good deed and taking the animal in without question, the workers at the shelter demanded that Lawrence show them his government-issued ID.
After being told that he couldn't drop the dog without a state-issued
The shelter told Lawrence that he couldn't leave.
The employees of the shelter, including
It was not reported that Lawrence was
As the dashcam shows, when the police arrive, Lawrence was being polite and cordial and complying with the officer's orders.
It was the officer who grew belligerent
As AL.com reports, a Dothan
A couple of months earlier,
Having studied all the laws surrounding the sovereign citizen's movement, Lawrence attempted to plead his case for not having
Several minutes later, after multiple threats from the officer to Lawrence, the officer attempted to kidnap
He had not stolen anything, broken any laws, or otherwise done anything to warrant the presence of police.
He and his children were simply trying to rescue a dog.
As police tried
Moments later, as AL.com reports, Sgt. Woodruff reached her arm through a melee, between the arms of two officers tugging at Lawrence, to press the barrel of her service weapon into in his gut and,
Lawrence was unarmed and
At one point, as shown
This pulling away of the taser was
Woodruff never received
Now a judge disagreed that Woodruff is entitled to immunity and has ruled that a lawsuit can move forward.
For not having a
His children would watch with their own eyes as their father died
As the lawsuit moves forward,
No amount
The first video shows the conversation between Lawrence
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