Posted on 10/08/2014 8:24:26 AM PDT by redreno
Phillip Smith at the Drug War Chronicle sums up the news reports detailing the latest casualty in the never-ending U.S. war on drugs.
A Georgia SWAT team shot and killed an armed homeowner during a September 24 drug raid sparked by the word of a self-confessed meth addict and burglar who had robbed the property the previous day. No drugs were found. David Hooks, 59, becomes the 34th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.
According to WMAZ TV 13, Laurens County sheriff’s deputies with the drug task force and special response team (SWAT team) conducted a no-knock search on Hooks’ home in East Dublin on the evening of the 24th. When the raiders burst through the back door of the residence, they encountered Hooks’ carrying a shotgun. Multiple deputies opened fire, shooting [and] killing Hooks.
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Or County, as we all do.
The “settlements” for abuse and incompetence need to come out of their pension funds instead of taxpayers. Maybe then they’d get their act together and feel the pain.
How the hxll can the Castle Doctrine give citizens the right to be armed and prepared to defend their home from invaders.... when the invaders are a SWAT team paid by taxpayers that don’t know the difference between a real perp, a legitimate source, and taxpaying law abiding citizens.
Agreed
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