Posted on 07/22/2015 7:07:43 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
...Based on the erroneous information she presented, which also included claims of "heavy traffic in and out of the residence," the judge issued Autry a "no knock" search warrant.
When a SWAT team executing that warrant found the front door blocked, one of the officers tossed a flash-bang grenade inside the residence. Once inside the home, the SWAT team realized a portable playpen had been blocking the door, and the flash-bang grenade had landed where a 19-month-old was sleeping, eventually exploding on the child's pillow.
The toddler spent weeks in a burn unit in a medically induced coma.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Bad News: It's the deputy who already resigned, so they throw her under the bus as if it was all HER fault.
The Sherriff is still blaming the family and the baby. He's the one who should be tarred and feathered.
ONLY one indictment??
JUST ONE??????
Well it was only one flash bang and one baby.
/sarc
JUST ONE??????
The no-knock warrant likely covers the a**es of the other officers there - sadly, the prosecution would have a steep, steep hill to climb to prove that the other officers broke the law when they were acting in accordance with a warrant. But the officer who was indicted was the one who presented a false affidavit to get the warrant in the first place. So, she's (rightly) screwed.
Well, hopefully this will the last one and that this tech will be common place.
http://www.popsci.com/police-will-throw-camera-ball-rooms
So the baby refused to obey the officers’ orders?
Yup. And the officers only did what they needed to do to make sure they got home safely to their families that night.
Good. But didn’t the local gov’t deny medical payment to the child?
I can’t describe what I’d like to see done about this matter, it’s what every other freeper is saying to themselves. I’d be banned from this fine website.
God could forgive these creatures.... but I cannot.
“ONLY one indictment??
JUST ONE??????”
Well, that’s all that they need.
Bull Winkle. You should always assume homes have children or grandchildren in them.
In October, a state grand jury called the drug investigation "hurried" and "sloppy," but found no criminal intent by any of the officers involved and declined to return any indictments. Autry resigned after the grand jury findings were released.But she probably is screwed. The Feds have an unbelievably high conviction rate.Autry's attorney said the federal government is ignoring the grand jury's findings and said his client is not to blame for the toddler's injuries.
"[Autry] is being made the lone target for the poorly designed and implemented search and seizure policies of her prior department and a since disbanded drug task force," Jeff Brickman said in a statement.
A search warrant was issued based on a false swearing. So, yes, Autry is the one who is being prosecuted in civil rights violations. Without the false information, it is likely that the search warrant would not have been issued.
As for the other officers, unless they also knew that the warrant had been issued based on false information, they have a qualified immunity.
Yup, and proving that they knew would be very, very difficult.
GA FReeper ping
So, in other words, “just following orders” is an acceptable excuse.
Yes, here and now for the local drug gestapo it is. In 1945 and 46 it was (rightly) not. Our government's drug goons have sunk to the level of the SS, and the government has sunk below that level.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Well said.
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