Posted on 11/21/2006 9:12:54 PM PST by Hazcat
I'm on your side, FRiend. My last question was sarcastic. If there was ever a war that could be described as a "quagmire," the war on drugs is it.
It just seemed like a silly thing to report.
Yep, looks like Atlanta might be "under new ownership" ;).
And not a bad shot if she could hit three of them with a handgun before they could find cover.
Maybe not a bad shot...maybe just lucky.
My last day as a cop saw me pull off an amazing feat of marksmanship: after catching three rounds, one of them in the lung, I somehow managed to fire four shots from my revolver. One of them hit the perp in the right eye and blew his entire freakin' head open.
To see my shooting scores from the Army and the police range, you'd never believe I could do that.
I'd rather be lucky than good any day.
Sorry. I mistook your entirely appropriate mocking of redunant journalism as a defense of the police procedures in this operation, and responed with no-knock sarcasm!
Aye, that it is. The cure is becoming worse than the disease. However bad drugs are for society, government thuggery is worse.
Damn. That's a helluva retirement story.
Should be some great comments in the 'Vent" about this one.
Yeah, I noticed that, too. What do you think that's all about?
CA....
I know an officer who was fired upon by a local wannabe bad ass in a small town years ago. The officer returned fire and one of the rounds hit the suspect directly between the eyes. I'm talking about having to take calipers to try to see if the round was millimeters closer to one eye than other.
It means "don't look for answers until we can figure the spin and how to 'adjust' the evidence".
She was protecting her home as any red blooded American would do.
Should future raids be conducted with more force to prevent dangerous 92 year old women from wounding officers with a rusty pistol?
No. These sort of raids should not be done at all. These assaults are often deadly and often result in the killing or maiming of innocents.
This is your war on drugs on steroids. And if it had been your great grandmother, I doubt you would be so callous.
See the rest of our exchange, he was being sarcastic.
oops. Best note that sometime highimpact.
What's the point of being undercover if they're going to break down a door (and do anything in which they need to be known as police)? It seems as though they deserve the blame, not only for breaking into the wrong house (which could be excusable), but for failing to make it clear that they were police officers, thereby making the shooting far more likely.<<<<<<<
Another possibility:
Before everyone assumes the cops screwed up, it's very common for thugs/dope dealers to lie and use Grandma's address as their residence to the parole/probation officer or court. Sometimes they actually live there, often they just keep stuff there or use the property from time to time. If an actual warrant was obtained, then there was other info indicating criminal activity at the location.
Often, the press confuses serving a warrant with a warrantless search (probation/parole, can be done with or by the cops), which is often done at the address of record. Normally, a knock and notice is done first, on those searches. So Jr. could have given Grandma's address all over town, and be living elsewhere.
I'm guessing Grandma didn't answer the door, and the cops aren't about to stand out front while everyone inside gets rid of evidence or gathers weapons. Normally, there would be good reason to believe the thug was there or doing business there, so there isn't enough info at this point to know what happened. I sincerely hope nobody broke into the wrong address, wrong street, whatever.
Sad event, but likely there were other circumstances not disclosed. When the thugs use Grandma's address as their own, they subject that property to search and seizure as per their probation/parole conditions, nice thing to do to Grandma. I've dealt with many a mad Granny, but it doesn't usually end up tragic like this case.
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