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Apology Issued After Officers Raid Wrong Home (SWAT in Clifton, Colorado)
Denver CBS Local Channel 4 ^ | September 15, 2016 6:09 PM | CLIFTON, Colo. (CBS4)

Posted on 09/16/2016 11:31:43 AM PDT by Texas Fossil

The incident happened on Tuesday at Coronado Court in the town of Clifton in Mesa County.

Police said they thought they were targeting a methamphetamine operation and instead forcefully entered a couple’s condo with five children inside.

Mesa County and Grand Junction SWAT members surrounded the condo and broke down the front door and destroyed windows as they breached the house.

(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clifton; colorado; donutwatch; gestapo; policestate; raid; swat
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To: luvbach1

Well, it sounds like the locals have already decided they will fix it, before they are sued.


61 posted on 09/16/2016 2:52:03 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

They’re indoctrinating people to accept this as good in the police state that they want to impose upon us.


62 posted on 09/16/2016 2:56:24 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I'm deplorable.)
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To: Texas Fossil
I read a great piece of fiction one time. It read something like:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

One of those wacky SF authors, probably.

If this happened to me I'd very likely be dead, because I'm always armed after dark and frequently sitting in the living room tinkering with one firearm or another. And if somebody breaks in the door without warning they're going to look down a barrel, and some trigger-happy SWAT guy is going to tell the press later that the homeowner behaved in an aggressive manner. You don't win that one because you're dead.

63 posted on 09/16/2016 2:56:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Texas Fossil

People will make mistakes, but this is something that requires serious corrective action.


64 posted on 09/16/2016 3:00:08 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

At the top in the planning phase. Can be a learning experience, fortunate it was not fatal for anyone.


65 posted on 09/16/2016 3:01:54 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Billthedrill

That some piece of SF work there. I believe I read that work on another thread here today. There were other articles recent police actions seemed to violate as well.


66 posted on 09/16/2016 3:14:19 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I'm deplorable.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

If it’s not a hostage situation, serve a warrant by hand.

Enough home invaders have glommed onto yelling “Police!” that anybody can say “I was in fear for my life” and open up at will.

Bust down an innocent American’s door, by mistake or not, prepare to get shot in the face. Cop or home invader.

Don’t like it? Whine up your chain of command.


67 posted on 09/16/2016 3:17:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MrKatykelly

Repairs? Can they repair the terror and trauma?

How do you repair that?


68 posted on 09/16/2016 3:23:59 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Texas Fossil

It is always excused by pointing at how horrible the crime embroiled in addiction to forbidden drugs is. So we broke a few eggs to make that omelet, they say. It’s worth many more broken eggs, even though we hardly do anything to help those eggs, they say.

It used to be blame the brewing; now it is blame the powder. None of which can intoxicate without the undertaking of a voluntary act. The band-aids are failing to bring healing to spiritual cancers.


69 posted on 09/16/2016 4:15:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DesertRhino

Wasn’t the story that much more than “bunkers” burned?

“Burn the bunker” was also the excuse in Waco, IIRC.


70 posted on 09/16/2016 4:16:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Travis McGee

The current legal regime is such that a lawsuit must be brought.


71 posted on 09/16/2016 4:17:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Travis McGee

At any rate it seems a bad wart on a system that is supposedly based on Judeo-Christian tradition, where a high priority was to try to make all victims whole.


72 posted on 09/16/2016 4:28:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Texas Fossil

sue the living fuch out of them.

confiscate their pensions and wages.


73 posted on 09/16/2016 5:35:24 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: doorgunner69

the more “accidents” like this the more they desensitize the public to accept this as normal sh1t happenings, and gives their apologists more time to defend them.


74 posted on 09/16/2016 5:37:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It is leaving a lasting dirty stain on our culture.

But there are a lot of other recent sources for such water marks.

Acceptance of evil is a horrible lasting infection in our nation.


75 posted on 09/16/2016 8:33:34 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

It is gross incompetence. They should all be fired!! My GOD— you cant find the right damned house before you bust things up? There is absolutely no excuse!! Heads roll in my world. Get out of here!!


76 posted on 09/16/2016 8:36:43 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary's favorite pizza ---- LITTLE SEIZURES)
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To: DesertRhino

They blew up the whole block, including the homes of innocent people who had to put up with these nuts. This was in effect, a preview of Waco.


77 posted on 09/18/2016 1:44:39 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Texas Fossil

Stop no-knock raids.


78 posted on 09/18/2016 1:54:45 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: donna

Yes, without a court order and enormous evidence.


79 posted on 09/18/2016 1:56:40 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
No, stop no-knock under any conditions.

Surround the house and tell them to come out.

80 posted on 09/18/2016 1:59:50 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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