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Elderly Couple Hospitalized After Cops Raid Wrong House
Fox News ^ | March 23, 2006 | AP staff

Posted on 03/23/2006 10:59:34 AM PST by seacapn

HORN LAKE, Miss. — An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory.

The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address but the wrong house.

Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team stormed the house.

"We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by a purchase of narcotics linked to the address. However, when we arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit the larger of the two houses.

"It was the wrong house," Beshears said. "The house was totally dark and the TACT members went through to the bedroom looking for the suspects."

A man and a woman — both in their 80s — were injured as TACT team members secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.

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To: seacapn
what is the usual procedure?

Flip a coin?


141 posted on 03/23/2006 12:17:14 PM PST by unixfox (AMERICA - 20 Million ILLEGALS Can't Be Wrong!)
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To: seacapn

Boy, we are so lucky to live in a free country where government doesn't attack innocent citizens in the middle of the night, aren't we?


142 posted on 03/23/2006 12:19:28 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: One Proud Dad

SWAT goes where it is asked and has the lawful instrument supporting that position.

Nazis tried that: "I was just following orders, doing my job.", at the Nuremberg trials.

143 posted on 03/23/2006 12:20:27 PM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: jjm2111

I will close in saying I am not advocating that all police are righteous. My argument here is the members of the entry team are not at fault for the wrong address. You can point to one guy for that, but of course the police haters have to come on board and start quesioning all police. Until you've done some you do not know what they are like. Read all you want. I am just amazed how many here hate police, but are the same ones that used suck up to them when meeting one in a public forum and then slamming them behind their backs. For all you say I have never seen anyone actually be rude to an officer outside the scope of official business ( like being arrested ). So bacially most are hypocrites, bash them here, but buddy up when then need to stay in good graces to avoid that next ticket.

I too sleep with a weapon and will react to any intrusion the same I you. I just pray I do not have to.


144 posted on 03/23/2006 12:22:33 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: Uncle Hal
As I recall, there was even more to it. The land was coveted to add to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, so a pretext to seize it was eagerly seized upon.

Then there's the case somewhere in the south where the cops broke in on some guy and he did shoot the cop dead. No drugs were found, and the dead cop was the only one who allegedly had the information that led to the raid. But he was the Chief's son, so now the shooter is on death row. There have been a couple of threads about the case here.

145 posted on 03/23/2006 12:23:20 PM PST by Heyworth
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To: One Proud Dad
Mistakes are made but the police are right 99% of the time. You only hear about the 1 out of 100 incidents that they are wrong.

So what if they kill 1% of innocent people in their own home, it's for the children.Right?

146 posted on 03/23/2006 12:23:47 PM PST by farmguy
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To: seacapn

By the way, Haley Barbour, where are you? Want to stand up for justice and make some fast political hay in the bargain? Call to the MS Attorney General and have him call these thugs with badges on the carpet. That would warm the hearts of millions around the country and show that you are a man of true character.


147 posted on 03/23/2006 12:24:02 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: seacapn
This is an interesting story, because it raises an interesting question that some people involved with law enforcement might be able to answer - if you are going to raid a house, or a building, but it's not exactly clear which is the right building to raid, what is the usual procedure?

Excellent question.

The only explanation that comes to my mind is that they didn't want to pay overtime two nights in a row for the same raid. However, in the long run, I suspect this will cost them much more in both dollars and respect.

148 posted on 03/23/2006 12:24:33 PM PST by RJL
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To: verity

The smoke of your kind has gotten this whole sordid mess banished to Smokey Backroom.

The public deserves something better than "oops, an accident, we are not to blame" when police harm the undeserving. Why not set up some kind of fund, perhaps fed by legal seizures and fines on legally convicted criminals, to recompense those unfortunates or their families. If an actual criminal is found connected with the injury (i.e. pursuing that criminal resulted in the injury) then the government should sue later to get the compensation back out of the assets of that criminal. But compensation should be paid without the need of the victim to sue.


149 posted on 03/23/2006 12:24:38 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: One Proud Dad

Wouldn't YOU "buddy up" too? Or would you royally tell the occifer off, assuming you knew the occifer was up to no good.


150 posted on 03/23/2006 12:25:45 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: vrwc0915

Same thing you would, that is not what I am arguing. I am not saying the raid was a good one. I am saying that only one officer was at fault for the error, not the entire team.


151 posted on 03/23/2006 12:25:55 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Good place for it.


152 posted on 03/23/2006 12:26:30 PM PST by verity (The MSM is comprised of useless eaters)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I treat them like anyone else, with civility and politeness. That is all that is needed.


153 posted on 03/23/2006 12:28:40 PM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: Skooz
You know, on my planet, those who actually commit the crime are the ones held responsible. Passing the buck saying they had bad info is lame beyond comprehension. Even if their info was bad, THEY are the ones who committed the crime and put these old folks in the hospital.

Exactly. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for us serfs, so why is it okay for cops to be ignorant?

154 posted on 03/23/2006 12:31:28 PM PST by subterfuge ("We're going to take things from you for the greater good..."---Hillary Rod-Ham Clinton)
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To: RJL

Hey, the informant called and said the lab is at 666 Swat Street. We just forgot to ask him (her) just where it WAS at 666 Swat St.

This is prolly going to end up with fingers pointing all over the place and nobody taking responsibility.


155 posted on 03/23/2006 12:34:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: One Proud Dad
You don't realize the difference between police haters and haters of injustice.

When the police are the administers of injustice you have no call to defend them, unless you think injustice perpetrated by the police is fine with you and you think that the police can do no wrong, no matter what they do.

Too bad the old people whom the police busted up for no reason weren't your parents. Maybe your attitude would be just a little different then.
156 posted on 03/23/2006 12:34:29 PM PST by Supernatural (Ea wull staun ma groon, Staun ma groon al nae be afraid)
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To: One Proud Dad

I.e. you "buddy up"


157 posted on 03/23/2006 12:34:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: One Proud Dad
Look we seem to have a similar background

USMC (I was not a recon Marine injury cut that dream short)

Sworn Deputy (Yes I was on the ERU)

I will grant you that the guys on the team are probably good guys but can you not see that the flash and crash method to serving warrants is dangerous for the public, look if you have have a detctive knock on the door and he takes fire you can use a SMAW on the house for all I care at that point but to send 4-10 masked folks into a house at 0300 is not the way to serve search or arrest warrants.

158 posted on 03/23/2006 12:37:12 PM PST by vrwc0915
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To: Supernatural

OPD fails to realize that when he claims authority to be the tail that wags the dog "hey, WE know how to do these entries and don't let the public give us any guff telling us to do it differently or by golly we'll QUIT just like I did" then he takes a responsibility too. Can't have it both ways.


159 posted on 03/23/2006 12:37:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The police think they are infallible even when they aren't. That's one of the biggest problems with the police, trying to prove they are wrong even when they so obviously are. They make a mistake and its just tough sh*t for their victims.
160 posted on 03/23/2006 12:40:42 PM PST by Supernatural (Ea wull staun ma groon, Staun ma groon al nae be afraid)
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