Probably being inundated with lawyers crawling thru every crack in the apartment..................
SWAT PIGS!
Why is it so often that in these politically liberal bastions (Boston area) the “fuzz” often seems to be the meanest? Could it be the backfiring of political liberalism? (Which isn’t political libertarianism, which would reel in horror at the thought of such events.)
This is the police state of Massachusetts. What do you expect. The LEO are free to do whatever they want as citizens are prevented from firearm ownership.
The socialists and LEO unions are so strong, nothing will happen with this and they will move to another neighborhood next week, rinse and repeat.
BTW when the political liberals think they have paid their moral dues to whoever (the global warming crowd or the Starbucks set etc.) it’s like they say that’s ENOUGH, now everyone else gets the mean treatment.
And so they are far more illiberal than most conservatives are, a very few grim exceptions notwithstanding.
Her life was in danger. If she’s dumb enough to push the issue, the courts will rule it a simple mistake, no penalty to the state for that. The reasonably foreseeable outcome of living in the US is that your home can be invaded by the state with extreme force, for no reason other than accident, at any time.
The guy the cops were looking for was already in police custody and had been for about a week.
The bad guy was there “in the days before” the raid? In May or when? What did the guy do, over due traffic ticket?
Luck they didn't have dog, we know how that always plays out, even if just an ankle-biter.
“Records showed police had arrested the man the SWAT team was looking for, who was a previous tenant at the apartment, at a different address on Aug. 6, the newspaper reported.”
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/massachusetts_swat_team_raids.html
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150821/NEWS/150829750
“Multiple neighbors told the T&G Thursday that Mr. Jackson hadn’t lived in the apartment since at least February.
Ms. Diaz was disturbed when informed by a reporter that courthouse records show that Worcester police had arrested Mr. Jackson on a theft warrant two weeks ago.
In the police log entry for the arrest – which occurred on Southgate Street on Aug. 6 – officers list Mr. Jackson’s address as 71 Sylvan St.”
1) "They were loud, vulgar, and disgusting in behavior,” she said.
It sounds as if she is correct in this. Also noticed that in speech, she is idiomatic not. Just curious: Illegal alien—just part of the landscape wherever you stick in your fork?
2) The family has not yet decided if they will file a lawsuit.
That ain't a family.
If cops can’t get the address in a search warrant right, makes you wonder what else in that warrant is screwed up.
I remember growing up my father walking around checking all the locks before going to bed at night. Jeez, nowadays you have to set the tripwire and made sure the pin isn’t too secure.
Does this sound like a SWATting to anyone?
Can the PD really be that incompetent?
Do you feel "protected and served" yet? Because if you don't, I'm certain they will accomodate you...
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In its story, "SWAT team breaks into wrong Worcester house, residents say," the Worchester Telegram states:
"Ms. Diaz said she moved into the top-floor apartment of the three-decker at 17 Hillside St. in May with her fiancée, Bryant Alequin, and their mutual friend Joshua Matos.
"When the trio moved in, their landlord told them the apartment had been raided in the past, Ms. Diaz said, and that he had remodeled it to take care of the damage."On Wednesday morning, Mr. Matos, a 27-year-old employee of a Clinton powder coating company said, he was sleeping in the living room – just feet from the door – when police busted through one downstairs entrance and entered through another that was unlocked....
"Mr. Alequin said he suffered a minor back injury, and Mr. Matos said doctors told him his wrist – which was fractured weeks ago but was healing – was re-fractured.
"Nowhere in his affidavit does Trooper [Nicholas E.] Nason state that he had firsthand knowledge that Mr. Jackson lived in the apartment or that he conducted any surveillance on the property.
This won’t stop until the SWAT thugs have to pay. SWAT raids have exploded over the last 20 years and how has this benefitted society? Any lawsuit won’t result in a dime less for the thugs.
I think unfortunately we will need to see some real carnage before the public gets enough backbone to go against gangsta government.
Civil asset forfeiture PDs, Militarized local PDs. DHS Brownshits, TSA perverts, IRS goons, the highest incarceration rate on the planet, Jade Helm -15, all the other corrupt Fed agencies (ATF, DEA, FBI, CIA, EPA, BLM etc etc). Has the totalitarian state reached a tipping point with the public?
The LEO’s swat teams when they exeute these things never pre scout out their locations. They can do so simply by interviewing without tipping their hand the mail person who delivers to that location. Or have somebody pose as a delivery person. If they did that they’d be saving themselves a lot of grief.
If it’s a business like a tavern have somebody go in and check out to see if that suspect like a known thief or pusher is there. Been in one of those with two off duty coppers inside and nobody else. Just walked out and got stopped by one of the swat team members and told them who was in there but they didn’t listen. As they formed up at in both entrances and barged in with guns drawn (and laughed my phisteris off) but in this raid somebody could have gotten killed.
I hope they have lots of lawyers. That was a terrifying ordeal. Wrong house???? If they can’t get addresses straight, the swat teams need to be disbanded. That is the only contact these Americans (and many others) have had with terrorists - our own drug police.
When you support a political system where the govt can misuse it’s power to oppress a specific group of people, like the way lefties love to misuse govt against the political opposition, that power quickly becomes generalized. The next thing you know the govt is coming after the people who supported the original misuse. This is a rule that people never seem to understand. That power you misuse against another WILL come back at you. Most religions understand this and call it different things like Karma or the Golden Rule. Our degraded society has lost sight of these things.
I do sometimes enjoy the schadenfreude though.
They "felt" their lives were in danger? I hope they THOUGHT their lives were in danger.
In any event, they were correct - their lives WERE in danger.