Posted on 03/23/2006 10:59:34 AM PST by seacapn
HORN LAKE, Miss. — An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory.
The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address but the wrong house.
Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team stormed the house.
"We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by a purchase of narcotics linked to the address. However, when we arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit the larger of the two houses.
"It was the wrong house," Beshears said. "The house was totally dark and the TACT members went through to the bedroom looking for the suspects."
A man and a woman — both in their 80s — were injured as TACT team members secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.
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Question, your small child turns up missing, presumed abducted. An anonymous tip comes on that a child by that description was seen in the house of a known child molestor or a suspected drug lab. It gets dark. Does that SWAT team wait for daylight or better evidence or go through the door at 3am? Your call. You have people that saw that kid. Better yet kid is able to make a phone call and gives the address where they are at. You run warrant, oops kids meant to say 401 Main, but said 104 due to stress. Oooops, damn those head strong cops.
They bust in guys runs and is arrested ( maybe hurt ) child turns out to be his on a visit or whatever ( may live there ) but by some coincidence does resemble lost child.
Another tip comes in... Your call. Try the hot seat on, it burns all who sit in it.
You cannot have it both ways a felony is a felony. If police started picking and choosing which laws to more actively enforce, more so than they do now, imagine the outcry.
Comes from taking the intelligence out of the business end.
Are the cops who beat up the 80 year old completely innocent people guilty of anything, in your opinion?
You did not have a warrant. Are you obtuse? You committed a felony, the police served a warrant signed by a judge on bad evidence by one person.
So by your line of thinking we should impeach GWB for the Iraq war right? He served the "warrant" based on bad intel. Which is it? Oops him bad.
There's your mistake. Police have always picked which laws to more actively enforce.
Most cops would recognize the diffence between a situation where an inocent hostage is involved and a search to uncover drugs. The fact that you don't makes me glad you have found an honest job.
Any government watcher with half a brain has not failed to notice the "felony-flation" of recent years. Used to be that this designation was saved for crimes deemed so heinous that they could be punished by death. Now it's a plethora of things that can result in a year of jail.
Force should match the danger to be abated. Rescuing a hostage, to any intelligent person, ranks higher than catching a sleeping drug dealer right this minute rather than tomorrow morning.
"You did not have a warrant".
So, looks like, in your opinion, the warrant legalizes thuggery committed by people with black ski masks, bullet proof vests, badges, submachineguns and authority.
But having no warrant to do the same thing makes it thuggery.
And that is your sole criteria. A warrant makes it all OK?
Like I said before, too bad it didn't happen to you own mother and father. Then you might see the difference. Thuggery can, does, and has been committed "under color of authority" and will again and again.
And you will defend it again and again. Because you understand the mentality of those thugs as you were once one yourself.
"manhandled these elderly people are free from responsibility"
Manhandled at 3am in a dark house. I am quite sure that once it was known they were elderly ( in the light after the chaos of entry ), they were treated a bit easier. No matter what you think not all officers are uncaring goons. I'll bet the lights were not on in the house so I challenge anyone here to make a snap judgement on the run in the dark about what person you cannot see anything about ( except a body shape ) gets put down on the floor or which ones get asked to "rise and shine".
I like to think I was good, but by some of the standards I see here I was a Gestapo drone.
There. Fixed your typo. I checked your home page and you do know how it is spelled - I never ever like spelling police but do hate to see that word spelled like they do over at DUmmieland. :o)
Agree with your post. Injuries which may seem minor to us are too often not the case with the elderly. Macho force was not needed here.
"I resent the attitude of us vs. them that is all too prevelant in todays police forces."
That attitude is fostered places like this everytime a call is made condeming the whole of police officers. Throw enough grenades into the crowd instead of sharpshooting the bad ones, they all get kind of jumpy. I expect this kind of crap on the DU, but not here.
Let's see, they busted in the door but it was so quiet that the kids didn't wake up. Someone isn't telling the truth.
Who said I'm honest? What do you know, nothing.
"Amerika" is used to decry what government has devolved to.
I do not recall it said they "beat them up" it said they were hurt during the raid. Older people are fragile by nature, my aunt slipped sitting on the couch and my brother reached to catch her and she dislocated a hip just by getting twisted. Should he be charged with a crime?
If these people were indeed beaten I will be the first to say indict and try the officers. I'll bet that was not the case here. The were hurt in the melee and MSM has once again gotten what it wanted, inflammed, uniformed readers.
Meth dealer do not sleep. They stay up for days on end and become paranoid and have in the past taken pot shots out windows at neighbors they thought were watching them. Plus they tend to blow up the nighborhood.
Research meth addiction and see what the problem is. MArijuana deallerslseep meth heads do not. They get out and drive around looking for people to rob, rape, or just jack with.
"submachineguns "
You no doubt are the same crowd that say "today an SUV killed..."
This is FOX for goose's sake. Nobody wrote to inflame; rather, people were once more jolted to awareness of what is in their sausage factories.
"Manhandled at 3am in a dark house".
The police have extremely bright flashlights attached to their weapons so that their weapons point where the light shines.
"I'll bet the lights were not on in the house so I challenge anyone here to make a snap judgement on the run in the dark about what person you cannot see anything about"
So, at a distance of a few feet, the police couldn't make out that they were dealing with very elderly people even though they had bright lights shining on them? Totally dark house? Would you have us believe that the police were in that house stumbling around in the dark? How stupid do you think we are?
I think not. I think they got off on man-handling people because they can.
That is the mentality of the jackbooted storm trooper and that is all these people are and all they will ever be.
Stop making excuses for these thugs.
Many dealers are smart enough not to use any of what they deal.
And, let's see, a meth user up all the time was doing so in an utterly darkened house. Makes sense to me!
OH FGS! Aren't we sensitive?
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