Robert Dotson was asleep upstairs and believed he heard a knock. As he went downstairs, he grabbed his gun and went to the door. When Dotson opened the door, police saw the gun and fired 12 shots hitting and killing him. >> Hey, heads up. >> Okay, I've got an unsatisfying video for you. Unsatisfying not because there's a $6 million lawsuit settlement, but because after all was said and done and the dust settled, the law enforcement officers who killed this innocent man and terrorized this family and shot at the wife, luckily didn't kill this wife, they're still at large, they're still on this police force, and one of them, believe it or not, I know you're not going to be able to believe this, was promoted after authoring such a horrific incident. This is a video that I covered back in April of 2023. So, we're talking about almost three over three and a half years ago, and now they just arrived at a settlement. It deals with the Farmington, New Mexico Police Department going to the wrong address for a domestic violence call, knowing they were at the wrong address, verifying that they were at the wrong address, and still killing the homeowner who came out with a gun to defend his family, Mr. Robert Dotson. If you haven't seen this video, I suggest that you do. I will leave the link in the description for you. Let's go ahead and get on with the update and I'll make some comments along the way as we watch this news story right here, but stay tuned to the end because I want to fill in some more things that this broadcast doesn't cover. >> The city of Farmington will pay millions to settle a lawsuit after police made a mistake there three years ago, and it ended with a man dead. >> Imagine calling murder a mistake. >> Three officers responded to a disturbance call, but showed up at the wrong house, then shot and killed the homeowner when he opened the door. News 13's Jessica Barron explains. >> Police department? >> In April 2023 around 11:30 at night, Farmington police got a call about a domestic disturbance at a home at 5308 Valley View and knocked on the door. But officers soon realized they had gone to the wrong home and instead showed up to 5305 Valley View. >> If you were working for UPS or Amazon or a FedEx or just a pizza delivery job, you would get fired if you got the wrong address. These cops don't get fired or even really reprimanded, but they do get promotions and pay raises. This is the kind of thing that almost no department takes seriously at all. >> After a few moments, police can be heard joking about the mistake. >> Is it 43 or 5308? >> Yeah, it might have been 5308. >> This is not 5308? That's what we said earlier, right? >> That was 5305, wasn't it? >> 108, can you turn down the address? >> 5308 Valley View Avenue had a confident resident. >> So I told me a wrong >> Robert >> And instead of being sober-minded about this, they're just laughing like they're immature little school kids, immature school kids with firearms who act with fear and impulse instead of with rational, logical, problem-solving sobriety. They know they can cost people their lives by getting the wrong address, but they don't care and they think it's humorous. >> Dodson was asleep upstairs and believed he heard a knock. As he went downstairs, he grabbed his gun and went to the door. When Dodson opened the door, police saw the gun and fired 12 shots hitting and killing him. >> HEY, HANDS UP! >> MOMENTS LATER, DODSON'S WIFE Kimberly comes downstairs and sees her husband on the ground. >> Yeah, BUT >> OH MY >> HANDS UP! >> SHE BELIEVED HER HOME WAS UNDER attack and didn't know it was police, so she shot her own gun outside. Police fired 19 rounds, but she was not injured. In July 2025, Ms. Dotson filed a lawsuit against the city of Farmington and some of the officers, claiming three Farmington officers violated her husband's Fourth Amendment rights against unwarranted search and seizure. The lawsuit >> be honest and wipe away all the euphemisms? This is domestic terrorism. If this isn't domestic terrorism, then there is no such thing as domestic terrorism. This woman lost her husband. These kids lost their father as their father was trying to defend the household. The cops were on his property. The cops knew they had the wrong address. And if you're a rational, reasonable person, you know that your presence there could cause some serious, serious problems. >> The lawsuit also argued the city failed to properly train officers in proper use of force. Last year, the court dismissed part of the lawsuit, saying there wasn't enough evidence to show the officers willfully violated Dotson's constitutional rights, but acknowledged they were negligent. The Farmington city attorney tells News 13 the city has since settled that lawsuit for $6 million. >> The city attorney says all parties signed the settlement in mid-June. >> So this man was murdered by the Farmington, New Mexico Police Department as he was defending his home from what he thought were intruders. His wife grabs her gun after her husband dies, still thinking they're under attack, and she tries to defend her home, taking up where her husband left off. Luckily, they fired 19 shots and she wasn't hit. And this cost the department $6 million. So, you would think that none of these cops who were on this scene right here are still working for the Farmington Police Department at the very least. And if justice were actually served, every single one of these cops who fired a shot should be sitting in jail right now, right? In a just world, that's exactly what would have happened. But, we don't live in a just world. We live in a world where an organized crime ring named called law enforcement departments and sheriff's departments work closely with the injustice department as the enforcement class gets to hide behind qualified immunity. So, what happened? Let's do a real quick backfill and recap. Says on April 5th, 2023, three Farmington Police Department officers, Daniel Estrada, Dylan Goodluck, and Waylon Wasson, responded to a domestic violence call at 5308 Valley View Avenue, but went to the house across the street at 5305. They knocked and announced themselves. Body camera audio captured them realizing they were at the wrong house and laughing about the mix-up. As they began to leave, Robert Dotson, 52 years old, opened the door holding a handgun. He was there to defend his family. Officers opened fire striking him 12 times and killing him at the scene. His wife, Kimberly, also armed herself and exchanged fire. She was not hit. In the criminal case, the New Mexico Department of Justice, injustice actually, reviewed the incident with an outside expert law professor and former officer Seth Stoughton. And in January 2024, it declined to file charges concluding the officers' approach did not foreseeably create an unnecessarily dangerous situation, and that their use of force was reasonable once Dotson raised the gun. So, according to the New Mexico Department of Injustice, it's reasonable to murder a man who's defending his property and his family when the police officers knowingly get the wrong address. Let that disturbing and disgusting reality sink down in your brain and mull on it for a minute or two. The family sued in federal court alleging a Fourth Amendment violation and May of 2025, US District Judge Matthew Garcia granted officers qualified immunity and dismissed the constitutional claim. He found the shooting itself reasonable given the perceived imminent threat even while noting the address error was negligent. So, this judge says that shooting an innocent man who's defending his family is reasonable even when the cops created the perceived imminent threat. That's perverted and disgusting. Remaining claims under New Mexico Civil Rights Act and Tort Claims Act were filed in state court. In September 2026, the city of Farmington settled those claims for $6 million paid by Travelers Insurance rather than city funds. The settlement included no admission of liability by the city or the officers. The officers remain employed with the department and Estrada was promoted to sergeant. The city and police chief have described the outcome as tragic but have maintained that the shooting was justified once a gun was pointed at the officers. The family has consistently argued the officers created the confrontation by going to the wrong house late at night and then immediately using deadly force. So, not only did the cops get away with committing a crime against this family, not only did the insurance company have to fork over $6 million, to add insult to injury. All the officers are still on the police force and Estrada, one of the officers, gets a promotion to sergeant along with probably a pay increase. Would you get a pay increase if during the course of your duties at your company, you harmed or even killed one of your customers? You would have been fired, you would have been investigated, and you'd be thrown into a jail. Unless the company that you're working for issues you a uniform, a badge, a gun, and the authority of the state. Then you get to hide behind the shield called qualified immunity. I think qualified immunity has to go. Let me know what you guys think in the comments section below. Your comments really help me overcome the censorship algorithms. Thank you for being here. Thank you for watching these videos. If you like them and you want to support this channel, just like this video, share this video, subscribe to the channel, hit the bell notification icon, become a channel member, and I'll see you in the next video. >> [bell]