EVERETT, Wash. — Snohomish County prosecutors have charged an Everett police officer with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an intoxicated man outside an Everett restaurant. Officer Troy Meade was charged last fall with first-degree manslaughter in the June 10 death of Niles Meservey. On Thursday, prosecutors added the more serious charge. The 41-year-old officer remains free as he awaits trial scheduled next month. In court papers, the 11-year police veteran indicates he’ll maintain the shooting was in self defense. Meade was not immediately arraigned on the new charge. His lawyer, David Allen, says he thinks prosecutors lack probable cause to charge Meade with murder. The shooting happened as Meade was trying to get the drunken man out of his car. The 51-year-old Meservey was shot seven times as he sat at the wheel of his car in a parking lot. Meservey’s family has filed a claim against the city of Everett, demanding as much as $15 million.
aNYONE WHO WILLINGLY GROWS A MOUSTACHE LIKE THAT SHOULD ALWAYS BE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
Anyone who thinks a car is not a weapon, please stand on I-5. He was not unarmed. He was armed with a 2 ton weapon (a car).
I feel threatened when the police are in my field of vision. I am 53 white man never been arrested,
I dont feel these men should have the power over life & death, with only “their word” being accountable.
Police went from serving the small towns 50 yrs ago to serving the city, to serving the states, now they serve the government. Not the people.
Shooting through the door of the car means his stupid ass was AT THE SIDE of the vehicle not in front and in danger. he is a murding pig and deserves to put in jail.
i believe that in may of instances the judges,D A,s and police all sleep in the same bed together or do the dance together.
@jeddah91 If you being white feel like that, just imagine how I, as a hispanic immigrant, feel when they’re in my field of vision. The same for asians, afroamerican, etc. I’ve been watching quite a few videos and from about 20 I watched, only 2 the victims were white. The rest were non-white people. Cops should paint a nazi sign in their cars. You’e right, they shouldn’t have the power over life and death…
@jeddah91 I agree there are very few good ones left
@jeddah91 You are 100% right, i vote on u
Ricky I never claimed to know Niles. just his conviction record and what he did create his own fate. but I dont need to shut the hell up. the truth needs to be told. MANY witness’s seen the car in reverse. Klockers original statement agreed that the car was put into reverse. and actually his car was actually shut off by Meservey before he was tazzed. after that he started the car and tried to go thru the fence. GET your facts straight.
dont hide behind the medias bullcrap. it doesnt make you or the family look good. I dont have to make shit up. wittness’s and klocker all stated that Niles put the car in reverse. but remember how can klocker be so sure as to what finally escelated the situation when he left his partners side to go and move a damn squad car. and the more you listen to klockers statements and compare them which changed from version to version to his
actual testimony given in court the man seems to have more of a selective memory, then a memory of truth. he also didnt remember that Meade turn around and looked at him and said “Enough is Enough. Time to end this” until he was down with family on a last minute vacation in california??? come on get real. Klocker is a coward for not being there at his partners side the hole time.
Im not bashing klocker either. Im speaking the truth. he was wrong to leave Meade to move a car. as he stated he feared that the car might be hit and if he used the push bumpers Niles wouldnt be able to reverse on them and possibly run them over. in his own statements. imagine that dude. and about the family suing the city.
wow that only shows that they are money hungry and are using the death of Niles Meservey, a father who wasnt a father, a man with a violent criminal background and criminal record. a man who was such a lush that alcohal was more important then his own family. dude the mans life is public record. please done defend a dark soul in hopes that its death will shed life upon it. and your haste to find Meade Guilty is only because your drinking buddy is dead and gone.
he should have lisetned to the police officers when both tried to get him out of the car. A police officer is some one to uphold the law. you dont get to chose whether to abide by these laws. and if you dont chose to abide by these laws and directives given by the officer you will receive sanctions fo rthem.
the only one ruining life is people like you who are hateful because it was your friend who was killed.
if you want to justify anything, justify his right to break the law, justify his criminal background, justify his domestic violence charges against him from his own family. and can you justify him being drunk and trying to drive? can you justify him not listening to police officers? can you justify him being non compliant after he was tazzed twice?
I dont think you can… so you sir can rightly take a flying leap off deception pass and disapear for all I care.
your friend is dead for breaking the laws. your friend is dead for obscructing justice. and your friend is dead because he hit a pedestrian in the parking lot. or was that forgotten? and your friend is dead because he put two police officers lives in danger. Im sorry that he is dead. but Im not sorry for why he is dead.
this was not murder, it was self defense and an appropriate force
@howler505 he didnt shoot through the car door. he shot fro the back of the car and just too the left of it. even Officer Klocker stated in testimony in the courts that Officer Meade had stepped back and spun around to fire upon the car.
@TheLiquidDrummer
obscructing… IT IS OBSTRUCTING!!! STFU!!! GOD DAMN IT!!!! I am so sick of you uneducated fucks getting on here saying retarded comments and trying to protect those who are so ignorant that they think a shiny piece of metal allows them to decide whether or not someone can die. This man was not endangering anyone!! If he was drunk and driving and did not the stop the officer should have made the vehicle incapable of moving, shoot the tires! BLOCK THE CAR! WTF!! FUCK COPS!
@jeddah91 You and me both brother! I am a system administrator for 911 systems and work with officers, they brag about making peoples lives hell. I feel threatened anytime I get pulled over for multiple reasons, I now have to worry about financial bullshit, I worry about blowing this cops top, what if he just dealt with a jackass and is aggravated? My life is now at risk because I have tinted windows and this cop is already pissed. The people do not exist in this country anymore my friend :-/.
@boxinabag dude really? one typo and you are going to cuss at me like that. your an administrator for 911 systems and work with officers. yet you are going to down your own. what a piece of shit dude. grow up and get real. put your vagina away and put the sack back on. your another ignorant phuck listening to the news media instead of doing your homework on the facts. get a grip and grow up. when you have something solid to argue with me. let me know. until then dont bother.
@23Zbyrd Seriously?
It was “self defense” even when you take into consideration that ALL victim less crimes are unconstitutional and being enforced unlawfully.
Here’s another thing ya may not know, “Law enforcement” officers are “supposed” to be “public servants”. Get it?
You do NOT “serve” the public by terrorizing the public. Most people feel threatened when they see a Officer….There’s a reason for that….They are being terrorized by ignorant fucks who derive their power from a badge.
the police are murdering bastards and find the slightest reason to prove so. there needs to be a profound and fundamental change on EVERYTHING regarding the cops. Most are fat, below average smarts, and pretty much substandard humans (sciencetific proven facts) who couldn’t hold a job a Burger King.
and now hes free to do it again POS cops