Kentucky police raid the wrong home and they kill an innocent man. Put him up for a mass. This brother should be alive. This man should be alive. Kentucky police killed 63 year old Douglas [00:00:17] Harless after dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen weed eater. [00:00:33] You heard me correctly. Only for the cops to raid the wrong home, kill the man inside of the home. Police said Douglas Harless, quote, produced a firearm and pointed it [00:00:51] at officers, which is why they, according to the report, had to shoot and kill him just before midnight last week. Let us zoom out for a moment. [00:01:06] Why are you raiding somebody's home for a damn weed eater? Why are you serving a warrant at 12 midnight? [00:01:25] Dispatcher repeated the correct address at least five times. That is on the record. The dispatcher repeated the correct address at least five times to the officers before they chose to raid the wrong address. [00:01:46] That's according to w k y t news, which obtained the dispatch audio and also spoke to the owner of 489 Van [00:02:01] Zandt Road, who said nobody has lived in that home for months. The incident is also raising questions as to why the police were asking dispatchers for the address if they had [00:02:19] an actual search warrant, which would list the address on the damn warrant. Keet said it was. It has made multiple public records requests for the warrant, but the Laurel County Courthouse says it has no record of a warrant. [00:02:39] And police have not produced a copy of the warrant, either. But Kentucky State Police specifically mentioned London police had a, quote, search warrant. In its statement published on its website. [00:02:55] Neighbors told local media they were searching for a stolen weed eater. On December 23rd, when they banged on Harley's front door at 11:50 p.m.. Quote I heard five shots. [00:03:11] One neighbor told Wlex who did not want to be identified, quote at least five shots woke me up. I was laying on the couch. Footage from local media shows the address. 511 was clearly visible on the front of Mr. Harley's home. [00:03:27] Yet after the shooting, a voice can be heard on dispatch saying shots fired. 489 VanZant Road. End quote. Quote. He was a very quiet, humble person, [00:03:44] said Carl Merritt, who lives across from the Harley's home and who is listed as the owner of several properties on that block, including 489 Van Zandt Road. [00:04:00] According to the online records from the Lower County property, Appraiser's office, quote stayed to himself. Never bothered nobody for something like that to happen to that poor man. It hurts me, really, to think somebody like that, especially in my backyard, [00:04:16] being shot in his own home. End quote. Kentucky State Police, who are investigating the shooting, said in a statement. On December 24th, 2024, officers from the London Police Department were following up with an investigation which started in the city limits of London. [00:04:33] This investigation led officers to attempt a to attempt to execute a search warrant at a residence on Van Zandt Road in Laurel County. While doing so, the occupant of the resident residence produced a firearm and pointed it at officers. [00:04:50] The officer then responded with force, which resulted in the death of the occupant. Let me give you a response from the victim's family. Meanwhile, Harley's friends and family are expressing outrage on Facebook under the hashtag justice for Doug [00:05:05] Harless, including the following comment from his brother Mark. Several, not 1 or 2 officers, but several, went to the address on said warrant, which was at the wrong house. He was asleep, someone knocking then kicking in the door around midnight. [00:05:23] What would you do? Still several officers and AR 15 seconds. For the guy, they were supposed to be delivering the warrant on. Wow for a weed eater. Jerry Holland has been the chief of the London, Kentucky Police [00:05:43] since April of 2024. I'm going to say this for the record. Something don't smell right here. Either your office is holistically Incompetent and incapable. [00:05:59] Or there is something else to this that we don't know. Now there's a dead human being that should be alive. The man should be alive. And it seems as if so many missteps happened. [00:06:15] That it is a shock to the conscience to believe that any one department is this damn incapable and incompetent. We're going to continue to follow this story until the truth is revealed. Dear brother. Thoughts? Yeah. I mean, it's just a tragedy. [00:06:32] You know, I can't. I wish I was able to say I was shocked that the police messed something up very badly. But when you've got this level of incompetence where you are told five times about what the address is, the exact number, the number is not even close [00:06:48] to even start with the same number. It's not like they were next door. Right. Completely different address. They seem to have a warrant. If they indeed did, the address obviously would be on there. Shouldn't you be asking for it? And if they didn't? Well, that's a whole nother problem. Now there's a bigger issue and conspiracy happening here. [00:07:05] But you're right. A man has lost his life for completely no reason. How do you not draw your weapon? When people barge into your home with guns drawn in the middle of the night when you're asleep? You know, it echoes Breonna Taylor. It echoes, a lot of just difficult times in the past. [00:07:25] And these things keep happening. You know, mistakes do happen, but this one seems far too strange. So I'm sure more will come out. And and there's no indication that he was a high risk warrant. There's no indication that this individual was violent in nature. [00:07:41] Why not just knock on the door, have a detective knock on the door and say, hey, listen, there's an allegation that there's a stolen piece of property here. Oh, oh, we got the wrong address. My apologies. Why serve a warrant as if this is a drug lord when it's nothing of the sort?