[bamahead]

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Correction: And NOT Get Away With It!

[SpeakerToAnimals]

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[MrB]

I think the solution to this is for the cops to have to carry malfeasance (malpractice) insurance, and have it be at their own personal expense, by law.

Let the actuaries put the bad cops in another line of work.

[Darksheare]

Only when bad cops are held accountable instead of protected, then things will change.
This is a start.

[JRandomFreeper]

Good.

/johnny

[oldbrowser]

(the court agreed police had lawfully acquired the search warrant

Why is there never repercussions for the judges that approve search warrant applications. those judges are supposed to be the control on overeager cops. Rubber stamping these applications defeats the purpose of having judicial review.

[yldstrk]

if the cops want to be soldiers, they should enlist

[SMARTY]

Just a generic observation and NOT to defend bad cops:

I don’t know where whole societal groups who gladly accepted a completely unvetted Presidential nominee are in a position to demand a more and greater vetting process for local law enforcement.

It is like having it both ways.

OK-so now, flame me.

[Boogieman]

What do you know? As soon as lefties get upset about “militarized policing” we get an appeals court ruling that starts rolling back cops’ immunity.

[fireforeffect]

"...discharging his Glock sidearm six times until the weapon finally jammed."

But, IMPOSSIBLE!

Glocks are magical and never fail, OMG!

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Will88]

On a Sunday afternoon in 2008, a tactical police team raided the Easton, Connecticut house of Ronald Terebesi searching for a small amount of personal drugs

There should not be many justifications for this short of raid on private residences, and "small amounts of personal drugs" should not be one of them.

[EricT.]

After reading the article, I see that the subject of the raid was probably a dirt bag, but lived far enough out in the country to not be a danger to anyone who didn't trespass on his property or come into close contact with him. The balaclava and grenade raid was completely out of line for a minuscule amount of drugs. It's not like he was holding hostages or threatening a terrorist attack. The raid should have never happened. They could have just arrested him when he went to pick up his mail if they had a legitimate reason to.

I hate to make a joke about something that caused the death of someone, but this made me snicker a little:

"It has been suggested that what Sweeney actually felt was the explosion of the third flashbang—and that in any event, throwing a grenade in front of your own officers is perhaps contrary to their interests."

What the heck? Did these cops learn to use flashbangs by playing CounterStrike online with 12 year-olds?

Darn 'nade spammers.

[CodeToad]

“by discharging his Glock sidearm six times until the weapon finally jammed. “

Sooooo...we must know this is a bogus story because Glocks don’t jam?

[arthurus]

From the video it seems pretty obvious that the cops just blew their way into the house and killed the first person they saw. They should have gone through the house and killed everyone there. Then there would be no one to tell a tale that contradicts whatever the cops come up with.

They obviously forgot to use the magic exculpatory formula: "I felt threatened." Had the shooter said that all legal proceedings against the officers would have been simply thrown out of court and the shooter would have got himself an extra paid vacation and maybe an award for heroism.

[MileHi]

The tactical team—called SWERT for Southwest Regional Emergency Response Team—

TWERK

Tactical
Weapons
Emergency
Response
Kops

[Vendome]

Real Dix

[meadsjn]

There had been a number of incidents at Terebesi's house prior to the raid:
...
Neighbors complained of noise and traffic.
...

While I really don't approve of any sort of SWAT raids on occupied residences, I just can't work up any sympathy for the sub-human druggie noise-makers.

If they could just napalm the noisy drug house from 30k feet, rather than just zapping one of the pests, and costing the taxpayers several million dollars, I'd be OK with that.

[JoeFromSidney]

One of the problems with these multi-jurisdictional task forces is that there is no "chain of command." Each member reports to a different political jurisdiction. Ultimately, no political entity is responsible for whatever the task force does. They can all point at someone else as being responsible for whatever went wrong.