I wonder where Obama is now?  would this guy look like his Vice Presidents son if he didnt have one?  lmao.. OBAMA you need to get up North in Michigan to help this family get a protest organized like Trayvan... Oh wait.. You are too busy helping your Non Existent son.    so much for for the people.. 

Obama wont step foot on this one bet on it. 

Was the cop a white hispanic?  

"Even if he (Will) had a knife and lunged at police..."

Wait, wait, wait... WHAT?  Lunging at an office with a knife ISN'T a reason to get shot at??? Since when? I think it's a bit extreme to take his child away yes... but that in no way should be cause for him to act how he acted. And for everyone to act shocked that the officer shot him.... just wow. I'm surprised you're ok that the officers had Tasers and aren't complaining they should have been using pillows... or just asked him nicely to stop.... because the Tasers might hurt him. This is real life. Not a movie. If you attack an office (because that's what this was) you shouldn't expect to be able to walk away. End of story. It's cold to say, but it's true.

On the one hand they say that when they first saw the knife they put away their tasers and pulled out their guns. On the other hand, they say that they did not even get to see the knife until Reddie supposedly was already lunging at the officer from a close proximity. If former is true (they already had guns drawn) they could have shot him in the leg. If the latter is true, it doesn't sound like they would have had time to pull out their guns (so if the latter was true then the former probably wasn't), but they could have tasered him. I have no idea what actually happened, but something seems fishy. I wouldn't be completely surprised if their was no knife at all.

Also, don't feed people the line that Klepadlo was trying to "protect  himself, the other officer and the three civilians that were present". Was Reddie in close proximity to all of them? Among the civilians, is Reddie's son included? If anything, Klepadlo was only trying to protect himself. And it seems likely he and his partners could have apprehended him and not killed him. Isn't it the specialty of police to be able to handle potentially volatile situations and do so safely? Isn't that their job? Shouldn't they be skilled/brave/restrained enough to be able to apprehend people in a safe manner? Shouldn't CPS have the social/psychological ability to deal with a parent whose son is being taken away and to be able to keep the situation stable? If they are not capable of doing that, should we be putting so much power in their hands in the first place? If someone wants to be a cop or work for CPS and be given the power to exert control over the population, sometimes through the use of force, we should be able to hold them to a pretty high standard. Shouldn't someone at least be liable for the poor planning of the whole operation? Or for the mistake of trying to take his son away when it wasn't warranted? Seems to me like the authorities sell us a bill of goods that says "we're capable, we know well what we do and how to do it, we have everyone's best interest at heart", and then in practice it seems they never trained or prepared themselves for what they pretended to be able to do and they were only interested in having the power to do it.  Now Reddie has been killed and his son has been left traumatized and without a father. Is no one going to be held accountable for any of it?

• Its obvious this is a cover up and it sounds to me the cop COULD NOT make an arrest. The agitated officer called his honey at CPS and set the stage. Now the toxicology report found no trace of marijuana which directly conflicts with the authorities statement of Mr Reddie smoking it in front of the child...the very reason CPS had an expedited court order for removal.. so I am  left with this thought.....did he really hide a knife behind his back and lunge for the cops and CPS?  Did he have a marijuana insurance card and it pissed the cop off he COULD NOT make an arrest? This is so disturbing anyway just a thought.... If he obviously did not smoke in front of his boy did the latter really happen? hhhmmm

Do they not realize that killing the sons father right in front of him is going to do way more damage than ALLEGEDLY smoking pot in front of him. That little boy now has to deal with that image in his mind of his father being shot to death. And it looks like he doesn't even smoke pot if he had none in his system, weed stays in your system for a bit and it sounds to me that this whole situation happened in a matter of hours. I am so sick an tried of people bashing pot cause its all they know, the only reason pot ever became illegal was  in the 1930's when The Ford Motor Company was booming and so was the Timber Trade. William Randolph Hearst, a major consumer of the cheap tree-pulp paper used readily made Du Pont Chemical Drenched Paper, which fell apart after a few weeks. Hearst's company was about to be taken over by a new low cost, high quality Hemp paper. So Hearst spent every waking moment trying to have Marihuana placed on every Narcotics bill in the United States. Which is rather ironic since in modern times the legalization of weed would basically fix the financial issue in the states, id say in a matter of a year or 2

So where are all the lawyers? People need to organize protests and hold these corrupt officials feet to the fire until they are fired. Charges also need to be brought up....federal ones. This is just like Trayvon Martin's murder.

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    THEY DO NOT TAKE KIDS AWAY FROM COMPLETE TOTAL DRUNKS DO THEY ????????????

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http://youtu.be/SpPJA_7obWw

once again the protectors do more harm than good ..now that little boy will grow up and shoot a cop..over the freaking smell of mary jane? and he tested negative? why isnt the liar cop in jail..I bet it was the cops own throw down that "pocket knife"

ALL,

This is a Murder. This Man was defending His Home and His Son. I am shocked the People in Crawford County are not outraged and calling every representative they have to investigate this corrupt Cop and Department. They did a so-called "investigation" with the intent to cover it up. The Feds need to be brought into it along with Attorneys for a suit. This was an assassination as it is now known the Cop was there at this Man's Home around three (3) times that Day - the Cop was harassing the man and doing everything He could before a Custody Hearing in the next few days. I would not doubt if the Cop has something with the Man's X, so please get someone to investigate this --it was a setup.

The cop saying (since the Sup Crt ruled MJ smell COULD be probable cause): "I smelled Pot" that He then told to CPS, which was the basis, somehow, to get an emergency child removal Warrant. This is a nonsense basis  and People in this community better think about who they ELECTED AS A JUDGE, the Judge who granted the Warrant -as a smell can not be proved or disproved and can be coming from anywhere -- so if it is ever alleged it surely is not probably cause for a Warrant (especially given We have medical marijuana in Michigan, so it could have been that). Simply put, the smell is not and never should be the basis to issue a Warrant, or anything ---and yet, this Judge DID apparently grant a warrant on that basis, which is nuts. He is as responsible for this as the Cop and CPS as they simply never should have been allowed to proceed because of a (alleged) smell of Marijuana - next thing they will be using this over and over to raid homes and take children. Even CPS should have stopped as it is odd they instantly jumped into action, when a mere smell is alleged -- this is insane and they need investigated as well. It all stinks of a set up! 

This is a Wrongful death case and the Mother should interview dozens of Law Firms to take it and do not take NO for an answer from some Attorneys -- you have a case, but keep looking until some good Firm takes it with the resources to do it right -- as it is a multi-million dollar wrongful death case -- Reddie appears to have been murdered by the Government Actors in violation of His basic rights. Go find counsel and the Biggest Firm you can find.

FYI_ For those saying the Cops "should have shot him in the Leg," please know LEO does not shoot people in the Leg, ever. They just do not do that -- If they pull their weapon that will shoot center body mass -- in other words, they shoot to Kill You. That's it.

If you want to be protected, you need video recording at all times around you premises and make sure it is UPLOADED to the Cloud, so the surviving cops can not get to it and erase it -- as He or She will tells His side, but your Dead and Dead Men tell no stories as they say -- so Get some video recording IP Cameras around your Home and Businesses, Use them, test it and test it to upload and copy properly (there is help for this everywhere) - make sure it uploads (see below) properly to Amazon or other cloud based services that can send it to Asia, Europe and other servers in the World and password protected.

I do not believe this man Mr. Reddie pulled anything, much less a knife -- it was more than likely a "throw down" knife -- in other words, it was planted by the Cop or CPS or both to cover it up. With the Man dead, no one is able to oppose this, so it is up to the wrongful death Attorney to find the evidence.

VIDEO CAMERAS ARE THE ONLY PROTECTION WE HAVE ! Get some. Test them, use them.

A smartphone can also record video, and all these video cameras can upload the video to the website QIK.COM or other cloud based services that put video (or any files) in the cloud, protected by STRONG PASSWORDS (that you have told someone where it is and the file/user/password) in case anything ever happens.

This is the best protection as video does not lie. The video is not present at the premises, or is duplicated and uploaded to the "cloud" such as amazon web services *(which is real cheap)* --

PLEASE make sure you have this set up at your Home with if you can, multiple cameras with audio. And even that video can then be sent to multiple cloud storage places from there and stored for weeks or months -- with this,  it would be impossible for anyone to destroy it if they wanted to hide what really happened.

as if We had video of this incident, I think the outcome would be different. USE VIDEO, send it to the internet, stay in view of your cameras, and above all, DO NOT LET LEO COMES IN YOUR RESIDENCE, REFUSE TO ALLLOW ANY SEARCH OR ENTRY AND KEEP THOSE CAMERAS ROLLING AT ALL TIMES, as it is clear they now are killing people for nothing.

So they wanted to save the child from seeing his father smoke pot, but it was okay for him to see his father shot and killed in front of him. Way to go child services.

I see a lot of anti police comments here.  Fact of the matter is (as reported in this story) Mr. Reddie used deadly force against the police officers.  TAZERS are great an all, but not reliable enough in close proximity for the officers to deploy them when that close in a deadly force situation.  All it takes is for one probe to miss or fail to penetrate, and they are completely in effective.  If Mr. Reddie had not used deadly force, the officers would not have had to make the tragic decision to defend themselves.  This is a sad situation.  Mr. Reddie lost his life, and the officers have to live with the knowledge they took another person's life, (though justified).  If the reason they were there in the first place was flawed, that is something Mr. Reddie could have fought in court at a later time.  It was his decision to use deadly force which forced the officers to make their decision to use deadly force. Again, this whole situation is a sad sad tragic event.