Wichita Kansas Legalizes Murder

On December 28 of 2017, someone in California thought it would be amusing, while playing a video game, to call in a false report concerning a violent crime and give a random address in Wichita, Kansas. A few minutes later, the Wichita Police Department permitted its untrained officers to act as a SWAT team. A pig named Justin Rapp took aim and pulled the trigger within about sixteen seconds of an innocent by the name of Andrew Finch opening his front door to find out why there was suddenly so much commotion. No one spoke to Finch before he was shot. While Finch lay dying, his mother and two young children in the home were forced to stand outside, in snow, without coats and shoes. No ambulance was permitted near Finch until he died.

Fast forward to this morning: Justin Rapp will not be charged. The clear message here is that the police in Wichita can pretend that they have a SWAT team when they do not, pretend that they negotiate when they have not been trained, and shoot innocent people for no reason. Murder is legal there.

Click Your Heels Three Times, Tyler Barriss!

Welcome to Kansas, Tyler Barriss! You now get to wake up in the land of tornados, flying monkeys, and the yellow brick road! You never thought it would happen, did you? Even if your mommy comes up with the money to pay your $500,000 bail and flies to Kansas to bail you out of jail in Sedgwick County, you'll just go to jail in Canada, where you called in a false police report on someone else you didn't like.

Today, inclement weather notwithstanding, Tyler Barriss, the California man who got angry with Andrew Finch, of Wichita, Kansas, and made a false report that sent a SWAT team to Finch's home; where a trigger happy cop shot and killed Finch; was picked up in Los Angeles and flown to Kansas. He is now in the Sedgwick County Detention Center, all 125 pounds of him, on charges of involuntary manslaughter, giving false alarm, and falsely reporting a felony.

While it is wonderful to see accountability in Barriss's case, the police officer who actually committed the murder of Andrew Finch still deserves to be held accountable, as well. We need this officer's name.