I have no idea about the context, but it appears that your civil rights were violated in a big way.
But again, if you don’t say what you were accused of, none of us should or even can make a decision whether the police were utterly out of line or not.
If you were accused of having illegal weapons or drugs in your house, then I’d tend to agree with you. On the other hand, if you were accused of child / spousal abuse or kidnapping, simply letting the officers ask your wife if everything ok would have resolved the situation. So in the second case, while _technically_ you would be right, it would have been plain stupid not to have just cooperated (you could have asked your wife to step outside with the kid...thus denying them the right to enter your house)
But without details, how can you expect unmitigated sympathy?
First, cops rarely ask overt questions. You have to find out what they are there for first. Secondly, I don't care if you are JESUS, you shouldn't talk to them until you find out as much as you can. Third, YOU STILL SHOULDN'T TALK without an attorney present.
I don't care if I was accused of molesting an entire 3rd grade class (though as I said it was an accusations of theft) a persons CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS apply. If they don't apply to some cases, they don't apply to any.
Your cynical, swarthy attitude just flatly pisses me off. I didn't ask you to believe me, or to sympathize with me, but you certainly have NO BASIS to assume the worst about me. It's people like YOU who act like the Sargent did because you believe that Constitutional rights are OPTIONAL depending upon what the circumstance is.
Yes, we all know that it is the seriousness of the accusation that is important, not following the law.
If there is imminent danger to someone, then, as I understand it, the police wouldn’t need a warrant to enter a home. Absent that, what excuse do they have for violating the law and their sworn duty?
Do you want your freedoms to be subject to the whim of every person that can pick up a phone and make an accusation against you?
Your take on this...
Is definitely all-fouled-up!
Should not matter what the accusation was if it was false. The Police in this case acted completely out of line, did not possess the proper court ordered documents to enter the premises and criminally endangered the family by their unwarrented armed presence. These stories usually involve the family dog being killed for no good reason and at other times people have been killed defending themselves in the dark of night by police having kicked in the wrong door.
According to your post, you're saying he should have just rolled over when the police accused him, illegally entered his home, and roughed up his wife and child based on someone's report to their office(without proof!) Think about that again. Shall I trump up some charges and report you for something? Let's see what you think about Constitutional rights when they show up at your door, bust into your home, and push your family around.
Here's the deal: EVEN IF HE DID IT, (he told us he was falsely accused and all charges were dropped) he STILL HAS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS and was to be presumed INNOCENT. He absolutely has the right to refuse to speak without an attorney and refuse entry into his home without a warrant. The whole "if he has nothing to hide he'd comply" crap is just that - CRAP. TECHNICALLY, he was right and they were completely out of line.
Used to be they weren’t supposed to come in without a warrant. Why send six dudes without a warrant? Doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t add up.