Because the source of this article is InfoWars.
Is Alex Jones your authority on these matters?
Once again with the ad hominem. It's becoming tiresome. I have commented on several threads about this, giving my perspective from 20 years in law enforcement. My authority is two police academies and a career in the very field we are discussing.
It doesn't matter to me what Alex Jones says or not. I am not claiming that the Boston searches were illegal, therefore the officers are all lizard people. I am raising what I believe to be reasonable challenges and questions regarding the actions of my comrades in uniform.
Of note, you still refuse to answer the question. Rather telling.
They should deal with according to the law. It’s simple.
No one here has shown that the police in Watertown did anything but that.
I have to disagree with EV on this issue. I read his explanation that these searches were covered by the exigent exception to the 4th Amendment. I disagree, but I admit there are certain cases where police have a right to pursue a felon onto my private property, like if they’re in hot pursuit. So we’re not talking about a black and white situation. Judgement is involved.
That said, I think it’s pretty clear the police went too far in this case, but I’m still waiting for further details to come out. For example, what happened (or would have happened) to someone who declined to comply with the search? I’m also bothered by the way the police treated lawful citizens during the search. Women and children hardly matched the fugitive’s description and clearly didn’t deserve to have guns thrust in their faces.
If the police reasonably thought the terrorist was in a particular house, then they’d have the right to aggressively search that house and take precautions to protect themselves. However, I don’t see how one could reasonably claim a 20 block area of houses legitimately qualified as a legitimate, immediate threat to the police.
Unfortunately, government has all the power and money to do whatever it wants, and innocent civilians wisely comply, even when their rights are threatened, when they face deadly force. Even if someone challenges this, it will probably take decades to work its way through the courts (which are being stacked by statists).