Posted on 07/10/2014 2:40:58 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
Instead of leaving with the drugs and weapons they were sent to find, a Minnesota SWAT team executing a “no-knock raid” left with the bodies of a family’s two dead dogs.
“The first thing I heard was ‘boom,’” Larry Lee Arman told KMSP, recalling the raid which occurred in St. Paul at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
“Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Right in front of us.”
Equipped with a warrant for drugs and weapons, the SWAT unit barged in while Arman was asleep on a mattress with his two children, shooting Mello and Laylo, the family’s two pit bulls.
“One was running for her life, and they murdered her right here,” Arman said, with his dogs’ blood still on his sneakers.
“I was laying right here, and I really thought I was being murdered.”
Camille Perry, Arman’s girlfriend and the mother of his two children, was in the bathroom when the SWAT unit broke down her door. She expressed anger that the kids could have been injured.
“The only thing I was thinking was my kids were going to get hit by bullets,” she told KMSP.
According to the station, the SWAT unit was executing a search warrant for weapons and drugs. After the shooting and a search of the house, the police unit recovered none of one and very little of the other, finding a small amount of marijuana residue, some clothing, and a bong.
St. Paul police told KMSP that the dogs were shot because the SWAT unit feared for their safety, and department policy allows for the removal of such threats.
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Muslims, from the time of Mad Mo himself to today, also hate dogs because they warn of approaching danger.
SWAT team members are usually allowed to profiteer from forfeiture.
The reason the Spanish Inquisition was hated and feared was because it was funded by forfeiture. The Roman Inquisition was paid for by the Church.
Had Galileo been tried by the Spanish Inquisition he would have been tortured for profit by the same mentalities as are suited up in SWAT garb.
Because "law and order" has traditionally been a winning campaign theme, particularly at the local level and particularly among Republicans.
I don’t care. Don’t shoot the ******** dogs.
Substitute the harshest word in the English language for the asterisks.
And, your answer tells me you support the Police State. Because you are a cop, it informs me that it really IS ‘Us vs. Them’.
SWAT teams need to be abolished; they have become a clear and present danger to the lives, liberty, and property of the American People.
“Judges , cops , lawyers , clerks ,, anyone connected with the government has the public records scrubbed to hide any hint of their identity or residence ...”
Sounds like they all have jobs........
I was ready to get all worked up about the actions of the professionally trained dog killers until I got to this key fact:
“two pit bulls. “
So that makes it OK for the Gestapo to smash in his door, kill his dogs and any other thing the Gestapo want to do? In this case they found nothing. Go read the comments on the source link. You are defending evil. But that is what police do, isn’t it?
It's getting to the point where the only way these SWAT teams will take a moment of pause before serving a no-knock warrant is if, upon their invasion into a family's home without warning, some family members in another room than the one being broken into take up arms in response to hearing shots being fired around their loved ones. It would take these family members killing several SWAT members to make these jack-booted thugs rethink their "tactic."
Unless they fear for their lives in executing no-knock raids, these will continue indefinitely.
I have a policy about anyone who harms one of my dogs. I doubt the cops would like it much. I don’t care. I’ll take my chances with a jury.
Bingo. After. Long after. A dish served cold.
A 6-minute YouTube video by yours truly and Mark P. Ferri, about the loss of freedom in America.
If I’m on the jury you don’t have anything to worry about.
I would be publishing pictures of the dead dogs and getting the emotional hype going. Use the situation like a Bambi or Lion King story and turn the public against them.
No weapons are needed. Just use the propaganda war on emotions against them.
Take pictures of the children with tears running down their faces and blood on them as they grieve for their lost pet. A few of these and public opinion would change.
When you are dealing with a public that is emotionally motivated by fear, use it. Crying and wailing are sometimes powerful weapons against oppression.
Which translates into, "It's okay to grab him, guns a blazing, where there is a higher likelihood his kids, spouse, dogs and other innocents will be shot and killed."
Are you peace officers hired by us to protect and serve your communities, or are you law enforcement officers hired by bureaucrats to keep us compliant? You can't be both.
I used to thank peace officers when I saw them. Now I avoid you people (now "law enforcement officers") whenever possible. I'm far more afraid of you than the gangs in my town. They are far less capable of the wanton destruction my family.
“They’d be shot dead instantly. They might get one round off, and they’d be riddled with bullets in return by SWAT.
You are right. I hesitate to say what I really think, so I will keep it to myself, unfortunately.”
Amen
Should'a shot HIM- last time he ran. Then the dogs would be safe.
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