Posted on 05/14/2012 6:00:16 PM PDT by Altariel
Victor Flores said he was in the bathroom of his Petaluma home last week getting ready for work shortly after 4 a.m. when an explosion shattered the predawn silence, followed by a scream.
He immediately thought his wife was being attacked as she returned home after working the night shift, Flores said.
In fact, dozens of federal agents had converged on their McNeil Avenue house to arrest their oldest son, also named Victor Flores, and search the rental house as part of an investigation into a 2010 triple homicide in South San Francisco.
The quiet neighborhood was awakened by loud bangs, presumably from flash-bang devices agents often use to distract a suspect as they enter a building.
Then the bullets started to fly.
When the gunfire ceased, three federal agents were wounded.
One of the family's two dogs, a boxer named Sassy, was dead.
The Flores' home was peppered with bullet holes, including one mere inches above the headboard on the bed where Flores' youngest son slept.
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He even appeared in court a week earlier and could have been arrested then, his parents said.
“I don't know why they did this to us,” Ana Flores said.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security Investigations, would not address the question of the agency's approach to the arrest, except to say, “Our foremost consideration is the safety of the agents” and other people in the area.
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“Homeland Security Investigations”
Is that famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote appropriate here?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/34738
It’s like those commercials...
When you get a federal anti-terrorism grant, you get a SWAT Squad.
When you get a SWAT Squad, you want to use your SWAT Squad.
When you want to use your SWAT Squad, you make pre-dawn raids for routine arrests.
When you make pre-dawn raids for routine arrests, you terrorize innocent families and kill their dogs.
Don’t terrorize innocent families and kill their dogs.
Big difference between the Robert Lasso shooting and the story above. Lasso, if the story was reported correctly, was attempting to stop two dogs from attacking him as he responded to a domestic disturbance. Clearly he was within his rights to protect himself. I would have little mercy on the individual who shot him.
The story above was a clear example of “Cops Gone Wild.” An all out assault complete with flash bangs and guns ablaze. Totally unnecessary as he could have been arrested the week before when he was in court. Shades of Waco; total irresponsibility by law enforcement.
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