Reading, PA — Pennsylvania State Troopers are under fire this week following a deadly officer-involved incident Monday whereby a man was killed by a bulldozer commandeered by one of their officers. Gregory Longenecker (51) was run over by the bulldozer and killed as the PA State Trooper and the dozer operated by the PA Game Commission were supposedly attempting to flush him out.Longnecker and David Light (51) were suspects in a then-discovered cannabis grow operation on state-owned land.
Game Commission employees found the grow operation and notified local police who contacted PA State Police who sent out narcotics officers to investigate. Finding a vehicle nearby, troopers discovered the two individuals. Light turned himself in to police but Longnecker ran into the thick underbrush nearby as observed by the PA State Police helicopter.
That’s when the PA State Trooper apparently got the bright idea to bulldoze the thick underbrush. The dozer then began to “blaze a trail” through the underbrush, according to PA State Police Information Officer David Beohm.
“There’s no way that you could walk through that stuff up there,” Beohm said, implying also troopers must have known Longenecker was lying in the brush. Beohm said in a press conference:
So as they’re blazing this trail through the brush the trooper tells the operator to ‘stop’. They look behind the bulldozer and then they saw the male that they were looking for was laying on the ground behind the bulldozer as they had already gone over that area. But I’m telling you that is so thick up there. There is no way you could see somebody laying in there.
Such news will come as little comfort to Longnecker’s family who now know their family member was killed by peace officers in a bulldozer. Those same officers were sworn to protect and serve the community and treat every suspect as innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. But once again, as TFTP has reported, it appears the Pennsylvania State Police conducted itself as judge, jury and executioner.
We can now add death by bulldozer to a whole host of ways TFTP has documented someone can be killed by police. Over the years we’ve reported as police have tased teenagers in the genitals until they died, pepper sprayed and tased inmates to death, intentionally run over them with their police squad cars, tased them as they were riding moving ATVs, choked them to death, drowned them, and beaten suspects to death.
Beohn did not say criminal homicide charges have been brought against the unnamed officer, something which would have happened to us had we taken our bulldozer and crushed a man to death. Instead, Beohn reportedly implied Longenecker could have died from a heart attack for all he knew. An autopsy is scheduled for this week to determine the actual cause of death but it’s safe to say at this point the man would still be alive had the PA State Trooper not commandeered the bulldozer and forced the Game Commission worker to “blaze a trail” through the underbrush.
Thanks to the qualified immunity police officers often enjoy, the killing of American criminal suspects will likely continue until federal law is changed. The War on Drugs will continue to seek out individuals who possess, grow, or use cannabis, even though countless Americans die yearly from legal drugs. The drug war against a plant has to stop. It’s a plant, not a dangerous drug — and no one deserves to be hunted and killed for growing, smoking, or otherwise possessing it.
What Joe said.
The real criminals are the ones destroying families for growing a plant.
The jackbooted thugs win again, but maybe the wind is changing.
My state may be a liberal infested place, but at least we don’t have the Neanderthal views of pot that Pennsylvania and most places out east do.
I keep seeing these articles,if this happened to a family member/friend whether 2 or 4 footed after any lawsuits ect. if cop was “cleared”,well,would be one less cop down the road.That said,would not use a firearm,seems a bull dozer may work,after that cue in the cries for bull dozer control and how it is for the children.
Seems Pa. f&g involved,amazing how there can be a ruch of “hunting accidents”.
“Peace officers” Is that like “army intelligence” or “fbi untouchables”?
My ass.
Yadda yadda yadda, but I, for one feel safer tonight.
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negligent homicide much ?
Bullshit. First degree murder and/or felony murder, which has the same punishment. You can’t be capable of moving a bulldozer forward and yet be stupid enough not to realize this was the most likely result.
why is it murder here & justifiable on last week’s post about the israeli soldier running over the female protester?
How many anons do you think there are? It’s also murder when Israel does it, IMHO.
They don’t call it dope for nuthin’.
Which are you suggesting was a dope?
Ah, shit. Now every copfuk precinct in ‘Murika is gonna want to have one of these ….
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Good comment, but even my small town has bulldozers and such already.
“An autopsy is scheduled for this week to determine the actual cause of death ……….”
I imagine that’ll be sort of like autopsying a squirrel found squashed on the highway.
if an armed government employee determines on the spot that the penalty for growing the weed (or some other crime) is death, who are we-as serfs-to question it? The man wronged the state by growing the forbidden plant, the cop deemed the act worthy of death. Nothing to see here…move along you wretches.
If your heart stops because a 40,000 lb bulldozer is on your chest is that still a heart attack?
Since this bulldozer was a “vehicle,” it seems vehicular manslaughter is a reasonable charge.
Cops have also killed a lot of innocent people when their SWAT teams have invaded the wrong address. The war on some drugs has killed more than the illegal drugs. That is taking into account all the innocents caught in the crossfire & killed by cop & drug dealer shoot outs, especially in Mexico. US politicos have all this blood on their hands because they won’t do their due diligence & research what’s going on with the worst US export in our history, the drug war.
The war on drugs. Lost before it ever began, has killed a LOT…It’s a medical thing, not a criminal one.
Portugal quit the US drug war tactic of ‘put them all in jail’ in their battle against drugs. They have had very good results.
Cannabis. Why is big brother afraid of cannabis? Beause they would rather have US on deadly Rx script drugs so their drug industrialist complex, police agencies, the private prison complex & other related lobbyist friends can be happy? Anyone ever note that most of the shootings at schools were done by people who were on or had been on prescribed Rx drugs? Ever notice that cannabis is not brought up as having been used by school shooters?
MONEY is the only reason for the war on some drugs. Follow the $$ & you will find out the real motive of most ‘drug warriors’.
Cannabis was made illegal based on lies, the greed of WR Hurst, deception & fear based Reefer Madness propaganda. All that mess fueled the ambition of Harry Anslinger. Hurst wasn’t even after the cannabis that is smoked. He was after industrial hemp.
If you have yet to, look up the history of cannabis prohibition & innocent people killed by the war on drugs. Like slavery, the war on selected drugs is a huge blot on US history.
SamFox
never heard of anslinger b4 you posted this–
it’s a shame that politicians,bureaucrats & big biz can get away with the blatant lies they tell,isn’t it?
https://prohbtd.com/henry-anslinger-the-godfather-of-cannabis-prohibition
MACHO MACHO COPS
NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME IN PRISON
AND THE POLICE AROUND THE COUNTRY WONDER WHY THEY ARE HAVING PROBLEMS
WITH THE PUBLIC AND RESPECT
THOUSANDS OF GREAT COPS NATION WIDE BUT IT ONLY TAKES TWO OR THREE A DAY
TO REALLY MESS THEM UP
Could have just dropped TNT on the guy like the Philly cops did in 1985.
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THAT is what I call Urban Renewal!
Those 2 dudes were stupid for growing weed on public land.
The pancake dude was stupid for running from the cop.
The cop was stupid for thinking he could blaze some kind of trail right into the woods to chase pancake dude.
The govt employee was stupid for following the stupid cop’s orders to bulldoze pancake dude.