Posted on 10/12/2012 6:06:51 PM PDT by Altariel
Wonder what percent of SWAT assaults actually capture a criminal or lead to an arrest.
Since no charges were filed, it is doubtful they have a case.
This is becoming a commonplace house of horrors. Citizens are being killed and for no reason other than some policemen (who show no evidence of being adult) want to play army.
Idiots.
90% of cities with SWAT teams have NO REASON to have them.
Agree, they didn’t shoot the little old lady’s dog in New Orleans after the hurricane but they did take her gun and put her and her dog in a dump truck! Kinda makes you proud doesn’t it! All I can say is have bigger toys than they do. Too bad it wasn’t the SSI swat team or the Department of Agriculture one. Geeze this is getting insane.
The drug warriors are responsible for this. They’re right here on Free Republic. They’re quiet on these threads, but they’re lurking and reading.
Victims of police brutality never forget.
Bullspit. If you didn't want it to happen you wouldn't have used weapons of war against a citizen. May karma come back and bite you on your azz.
Hmmm, the reported purpose of the no-knock raid was because they expected a meth lab was in the house? So naturally they fired off explosives as part of their assault process. Imagine the burns sustained if there WAS a meth lab. Kaboom!
Indeed.
They need to be held back a grade.
Besides all the obvious issues you don’t “flashbang” a meth lab - or it will likely explode.
Excuse me for askin, but wouldn’t a flash bang ignite the fumes present in an active meth lab?
How long does it take to fasten a flash-bang to the hand-cuffed police officer’s genitals and pull the pin? I am enraged that this could happen in America.
One of these days people are going to snap, and it will be open season.
First target: Media.
Second: These types of people.
Third: Democrats/Union thugs.
Fourth: Islamics.
Target rich, baby.
Well I'm satisfied it was a justifiable use of force!
There's a drug head living at 1600 Penn Ave DC!
Get em boyz!
My bad, it's only for little peoples addresses! Let's go house to house, and get all the Jews and Christians too while we're at it!
Seriously? Why wouldn’t they know that?
/johnny
It’s just a matter of time.
Dam! I need more ammo!!
Punishment? There is adequate punishment for a screw-up like this. You go to court, and demand fifty percent of their operations budget for the next ten years for the kid, and then you start to require a county judge to actually accompany teams out to a home. You start to put the judge into the seat that if a screw-up occurs....he goes to jail for a year or two. At that point, all of this SWAT-play stuff starts to end....no one will sign for a raid.
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