Posted on 05/29/2014 5:26:52 PM PDT by armydawg505
“The last thing you want is law enforcement to injure someone innocent,” Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “There was no malicious act performed. It was a terrible accident that was never supposed to happen.”
WRONG. As a former LEO I call bullshit on this statement. The perosn you were after was not in the location. You had no idea who was in the location. In other words you rolled the dice. That is no accident, that is incompetence.
Nor should any judge. The Fourth Amendment requires “probable cause”. The second-hand word of an informant is hearsay at best, and hearsay is not probable cause.
Right, so contraband law excuses such an abomination?
No knock warrants are Tyrannical and unconstitutional! But we wouldn't want such trivialities to get in the way of the War on Drugs...
Prosecuting all the meth transactions in history isn't worth what happened to this child!
Flash-bang, my ass. Go to hell.
Didn’t think I really needed to add that, but here you go /s
>> However, the bottom line is if no drugs had been sold out of the house, no cops would have been there at 3am.
The bottom line... the dumb shits mutilated in infant.
an infant
Good one!
However; there are many INNOCENT people who have just been going about their daily routine when surprised by a 'no knock' warrant...my wife and I were such victims. A town employee with an ax to grind went to his buddies on the police force, and the next thing you know...
End 'no knock' warrants before more people die...
Can citizens use this defense? Or is it available only to our overseers?
I notice in #43 you are basically saying your comments were being misread.
YOU may want to reread your comment under #1.
Without a ‘sarcasm’ indicator this surely looks like you are not only condoning the actions but ridiculing the people in the house and anyone that may disagree with your comments.
In no way (in #1) do you even vaguely ‘condemn’ or otherwise ‘question’ the Cops actions or intentions.
In 43 you are basically complaining that nobody ‘understood’ you....
Maybe if you had even started the first sentence in #1 as
“How do you explain that, at 3AM......etc ... etc ...
You would NOT have generated so many objections to YOUR answer.
If you weren’t sympathizing with the cops you wouldn’t have said “Now the cop that threw the grenade has to live with this the rest of his life”.
MFL.
You’re right!
It is even more important to note that items prohibited to the general public as “destructive devices” should not be used in domestic law-enforcement.
First off, I am not defending the cop here.
However, I would like to point out that my friends father admitted to the family shortly before his passing that he mistook an American patrol for enemy combatants on one of the islands during WWII and open fired, killing a brother marine and wounding another. It was termed "the fog of war" and he lived with that guilt his entire life, but was never charged as a crime. I bet this cop is torn up inside and will never forgive himself for doing this after seeing that baby in a pool of blood, but I think that the higher ups who expected him to do what he did and made it their SOP is really who should be held accountable.
Now granted in small town America it's not a war zone, but in places like Detroit and Chicago it sure as hell isn't like it was a while ago either.
30 years ago I was going to be a reserve police officer, my parents talked me out of it because it would conflict with our business. Now I wouldn't be a cop and have to deal with the kind of people you have to day in and day out for all the tea in China.
I bet you're wrong.
If you were right, they wouldn't be using training materials like this:
For a house in which drugs were allegedly sold, did you notice that *nowhere* are the police saying “and look at the haul we brought in from that house” as a justification for the raid?
Not one single claim that drugs or drug paraphernalia were found there.
Can you say “the confidential informant blamed an innocent family?”
I’m sorry that happened to you and your wife.
I hope we can stop these no knock warrants before more Freepers become victims of them.
Awesome pic. Stolen!
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