Originally Posted by
oh2trashed
So let me get this straight. He is in his house, and the police start banging on the door. He shoots the door, kills a cop on the other side, the cops finally bust in and arrest him. Am I right? This is the first I have heard about this case so that's just what I have gathered from the thread.
More or less, except they weren't banging on the door, they were breaking down the door with a battering ram. Frederick and all witnesses say the police did not announce themselves. And this was at nighttime.
10 years for a guy with no priors acting in self-defense, what a bunch of crap.