Posted on 08/13/2014 8:28:01 AM PDT by Dacula
An elderly woman's home was raided by police after she was suspected of making anonymous online threats against the Evansville police department and Chief Billy Bolin.
The 68-year-old woman, Louise Milan was in the house with her 18 year old adopted daughter when police shattered a glass door and burst in after throwing flash grenades inside.
Police came up empty-handed in the search for evidence about who had made the threatening posts but only after damaging Louise Milan’s house, handcuffing her and her adopted daughter and seizing their computers, according to a lawsuit that has been filed against the city of Evansville.
The FBI later arrested Derrick Murray, a suspected local gang leader who lived nearby in his mother’s house and was using his smartphone to access the Milan's unsecured wireless network.
City attorneys contend that the force used to execute the search warrant, was “objectively reasonable” and that officials are immune from liability.
here is the link - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6e7_1407930108
“objectively reasonable” force. Couldn’t they have knocked on the friggin’ door and served a warrant?
I hate the jack booted thugs.
Does that earn me flash-bangs?
No. This was the police punishing the serfs for getting uppity.
The CURSE OF OBAMANATION is taking hold in America.
No. For most of those men, the only way they can get sexually excited is to kick down doors and hold guns at the heads of innocent people. If there was a puppy to kick or shoot, it would have been even better.
Absolutely useless humans, these new cops.
Say something nasty about the police, and it is reasonable for them to throw grenades at you.
“Threatening posts” do not in a sensible world justify a SWAT raid. If they had politely served their warrant, searched, and found nothing, that would not have been a problem with the foolishly unsecured network. The route they took clearly justifies a lawsuit.
We have the JBT category for the jack-booted thugs but let’s not forget the judge who rubber-stamps the warrants. If enough pressure can be put on a judge, perhaps s/he’d be interested in filing a bench warrant or two for filing a false application in some of these cases.
But that is a generic comment. What we can glean from the article is that the messages did originate with the victim’s IP address and that the threats were made by a gang leader so the threats were likely just a little bit stronger than usual. That’s probably enough to shield the PD from liability even if the sovereign immunity veil was pierced.
For calling the Police Chief names on the Internet??
I understand that this lady did not do anything, and that it was someone else who used her unsecured Wi-Fi -- but even if she did - did that warrant a SWAT attack? This is absurd. We have become a Police State.
I do not know whether to laugh or cry.
Citizens need to start marching down to their local police departments & demand that all SWAT teams be disbanded. This kind of response is beyond outrageous!
Some morons NEVER learn. They were lucky that there was not another baby laying on the floor to be burned by their rah, rah we are the swat thugs and do not answer to anyone for hurting innocent people.
Furthermore, running open WiFi is not a crime.
Stupid, but not a crime.
When I am on the phone with my daughter I will occasionally, in the middle of our conversation say “Obama bombing” and she will immediately begin telling me the condition of youngest baby’s diaper. We think it’s funny because whoever is listening to us will get an earful of crap.
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