Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home

Missoulian.com ^ | October 12, 2012 | Unknown

[Secret Agent Man]

they are/will be bringing on themselves acting like this. “just doing my job” ain’t going to save them.

this also goes for our glorified baggage thiefs and pat-down perverts.

[Tuanedge]

Toss a grenade into a cop shop or an officer’s residence and try the “It was totally unforeseen, totally unplanned and extremely regrettable,” defense.

Little tin gods.

[SkyDancer]

Did they shoot the family dog?

[Oztrich Boy]

“The police are the only ones with the training and experience to carry grenades”

[Darren McCarty]

"It was totally unforeseen, totally unplanned and extremely regrettable," St. John said. "We certainly did not want a juvenile, or anyone else for that matter, to get injured."

Bullshit.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I got wild hawgs by the bucket full. ;)

[Chode]

a METH LAB, and these doughnut munching geniuses thought throwing an EXPLOSIVE DEVICE into it was a GREAT IDEA...

they ALL should goto jail for felony STOOOPIDITY!!!

[cherry]

oh come on.....they needed the practice afterall..../sarcasm/

[Altariel]

Thank you, I hope the kid recovers.

The salaries of the entire department should go to that family for the rest of the injured daughter’s life.

Perhaps when *their* pocketbooks are the ones hit, committing government sponsored terrorism will be less appealing.

[Altariel]

There is no god but the State?

“Submit to the State or die, Conservative infidel”?

Hmm.....

Odd how worship of false gods results in strangely similar behavior.

[SeminoleCounty]

Yes way too many of these incidents

One of these days these LEOs will truly pick the wrong house...and they will pick a house where the people shoot and never miss. When a bunch of LEOs are body bagged with bullets in the brains after a botched raid....rhen maybe they will understand.

[montanajoe]

“the odds are that any punishment is handed down for this?”

It will cost Billings taxpayers a few million..

[rottndog]

St. John said investigators did plenty of homework on the residence before deciding to launch the raid but didn't know children were inside.

Why didn't they have the house in question under surveillance? Surely had they done so, they would have known children were present. And, if they could insert a flash bang grenade into the window, why not a video camera to see what's in the room? Why was the pig with the grenade not properly trained in its' use?

Some serious incompetence here....in fact I'd call it dereliction of duty. Hope the kid gets a serious paycheck out of this. Too bad the taxpayers are going to take it in the shorts again...especially given that the pigs involved will suffer no consequences.

[fr_freak]

[Police Chief] St. John said investigators did plenty of homework on the residence before deciding to launch the raid but didn't know children were inside.

This is the height of chutzpah, right here, ladies and gentlemen. Let's review:

1) The police thought there was a meth lab in the house - there wasn't.
2) The police thought there were no juveniles in the house - there were.
3) The police thought there was a meth lab in the house AND STILL USED MULTIPLE FLASH BANG GRENADES BEFORE ENTERING.
4) No arrests were made or charges filed,despite the fact that the police thought that a serious enough crime was being committed to warrant a middle-of-the-night no-knock military assault on the house..

And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the POLICE CHIEF, himself, went on record and said "Hey we did our homework!"

These cops belong in jail.

[christx30]

He’s lucky that there wasn’t a meth lab in that place. Everyone involved would have been dead or SERIOUSLY injured. So tired of these shock and awe raids.

[glyptol]

First they screwed the pooch then they sot it/s

[SECURE AMERICA]

St. John said investigators did plenty of homework on the residence before deciding to launch the raid but didn’t know children were inside.

Absolute IDIOTS.
No sir, you did not do plenty of homework.

[Terry Mross]

Of COURSE, they found some “evidence”.

[Uncle Chip]

"A simple knock on the door and I would've let them in," she said. "They said their intel told them there was a meth lab at our house. If they would've checked, they would've known there's not."

She and her two daughters and her husband were home at the time of the raid. She said her husband, who suffers from congenital heart disease and liver failure, told officers he would open the front door as the raid began and was opening it as they knocked it down.

Meanwhile down the street a gang of youths was assaulting pedestrians and the mayor was telling the press that budgets were tight and he couldn't afford any more cops to answer citizen complaints.

[NVDave]

I’m waiting for the holster-sniffers to show up to justify this.