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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Okra
“Any judge signing a no knock warrant must be present at the scene and all swat operations must be bonded for 5 $ million liability.”
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I fully agree, but don’t hold your breath until it happens.
Unacceptable
Laurens County Georgia
Bingo
The informant provides the opportunity for this sort of thing, not any evidence of crime. The police do not care at all if what the informer says might have any basis in truth or even “honest mistake.” To the Law it is an opportunity to do the things they enjoy and have been trained to do.
Why the libability bond? They are never “liable.” Every action is “justified” and “followed training perfectly.”
If this is the same story I read about, the police searched the house for some ridiculous number of hours (I recall over 40) and found nothing.
There was no probable cause. There was the word of someone who had no reason to tell the truth about anything and who is a liar by nature. Burglars are liars by nature. They have to be in order to ply their trades.
Policing is no longer honorable.
COPS ARE BUMS.
They have the same tattoos and listen to the same vile bilge as the people they arrest.
Yes, probable cause has to be probable cause to a hypothetical “reasonable person”. No reasonable person would believe the word of a meth addict without some outside confirmation, so that doesn’t qualify as probable cause.
Make it 50 million and I’ll raise my hand in agreement.
Completely and utterly agreed.
And no - I’m not soft on drug use.
Funny thing: you cannot be a Constitutionalist and support the War on Drugs for the simple reason that all authority for the War on Drugs is usurped and clearly outside the bounds of the Constitution. (Even precedent, which I hate because it is elevated above the Constitution, shows the War on Drugs to be illegitimate with the presence of amendments 18 and 21.)
They have the same tattoos and listen to the same vile bilge as the people they arrest.
I remember going to New York City's Penn Station in the 1980s, and being shocked at the uniformed transit cops: except for the uniform, they did indeed look like criminals.
Goes to my point. What the hell was the issuer thinking?? Should have told the requesting officers to pound sand
Video cams everywhere. Front door. Back door. Entryways, Garage. Streamed offsite and a local 1tb HD. If the fuzz tries to lose the data, it gets turned loose on YT and other outlets.
Then let the lawsuits fly.
The badge lickers salivate each time something like this happens.
The cops will never stand trial for this. If anything, they will be promoted.
Would you translate that for me?
Every LAST PERSON INVOLVED DESERVES 20 to LIFE.
I got that part.
The Gestapo Agents that convinced to NON DEPUTY compliant magistrate to issue this Warrant
This part I did not get. I think that I am in agreement with you.
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