Except, according to the current ROE for these DNR cops (anything goes), if you yell, “Get off my property, you are trespassing”, they can ignore you, flip you the bird, etc. They are cops so they’ll likely be armed. How are you to know they aren’t a danger? So, if you shot them, even if you legitimately (to you) thought they were a threat, since they are cops with the rules they have (anything goes for them), I think you’d be charged with murder and spend the rest of your days getting your backside enlarged till you could park a truck in It.
Not exactly the same situation you describe, but last year in Tennessee TNR police installed a game camera on a man’s private property without his knowledge. It was positioned in a way to monitor traffic into and out of the man’s property, not specifically to monitor hunting areas. The camera had a cellular module and could ttansmit images real time to the TNR agents. The camera was also totally unmarked. So basically setup to surveil the owners commings and goings. When he noticed the camera one day, he removed and and brought it back to his house.
At that point he was charged with “Steeling government property”. Yup, steeling property that was placed on his land without his knowledge and unmarked.
Here is a quote from the article.
As one page of an FWS investigation report summarizes the events, "SA's served a search warrant on HOLLINGSWORTH's residence on September 7, 2018 in reference to the stolen government property (Covert game camera) that was stolen from HOLLINGSWORTH's farm." The report uses the word "stolen" twice. But there's no reckoning with how it applies to an item placed on Hollingsworth's property without his knowledge or permission.
In April 2019, Hollingsworth was charged with six federal counts in the Western District Court of Tennessee, including improper bait placement, hunting over bait, and "knowingly conceal[ing] and retain[ing] property of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service…with the intent to their own use and gain."
This story is actually much better than the OP’s linked story because it goes into much more detail about the history of Open Fields Doctrine.
Wildlife agents placed a camera on his property without a warrant, then raided his home after he removed it
How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.
reason.com
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