HUH??
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Posted on 06/22/2012 10:05:51 PM PDT by Altariel
ochester police and federal agents made a mistake in Charlotte this week that has one woman baffled and frightened. She wants to know how they could mistake her house for one they were supposed to raid in a drug bust.
“I was sitting in my living room texting on my phone and I heard somebody come in my back door. I didn't realize at the time what they were saying, but ultimately they were yelling out A-T-F, A-T-F.”
Nancy Dominicos says what happened next at her home on Tiernan Street Wednesday night is almost unbelievable.
“I thought it was a family member pulling a joke on me. And all of the sudden I looked up and they were in my dinning room pointing a loaded gun at me telling me they had a federal warrant to search my premises.”
Dominicos says she kept telling the three ATF agents this wasn't right. They told her they were searching for narcotics and asked if anyone else was home. She said her adult son was upstairs and that's when this story almost turned tragic.
“My son had heard me arguing with this man and it was not a voice he'd recognize. My son is a hunter, he put a bullet in the chamber of his gun. They heard that, they yelled down long gun, at that point there he told another ATF agent that was with me, handcuff her and take her out,” Dominicos said.
Thankfully Dominicos' son recognized it was law enforcement and put the gun down right away. Dominicos says the handcuffs caused bruises and as she was going outside with an ATF agent she heard him say they had the wrong house. The ATF and Rochester police executed a number of search warrants Wednesday night. Police sent us a statement, saying they entered the home through an unlocked side door and quote:
"Upon encountering an elderly resident, the team realized that they were at the wrong location at that time and left the premises."
Officers then searched the correct house down the street.
Dominicos says the whole event plays over and over in her mind,
“I'm still terrified. It's almost like a P.T.S.D. experience, you keep hearing things. You think oh my God I hear a door slam, I hear someone pulling into my driveway. I see a light it's like oh my God are they back?”
"How could they make that mistake, how could they make that mistake?”
All the newly manufactured full auto in the US has been reserved for police and military since Daddy Bush signed the law, which is why the average schmuck pays 100X street value in Iraq for an AK-47 (a real one, not a semi-auto knock off) here in the states with a tax stamp.
The BATFE has it's job, either they add a letter or let the guys tasked with drug enforcement do their job.
You implied this only happened once, or on rare occasion. Cops are government agents, working for government. Is anyone really surprised by these events which are occurring on a frequent basis?
I am confident, if someone broke into your grandmothers home or your daughters home for no legitimate reason and pointing loaded weapons in her face, threatening her with death, you'd have a slightly different take on this.
HUH??
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Yes, I am referring to you as a brainless twit. You earned it.
If you don’t want to be seen as a brainless twit, quit acting like a brainless twit.
It’s all on you, Bubba.
I think we may have a serious problem, here.
This “doc1019” creature appears incapable of distinguishing between criticism of criminal cops and criticism of all cops.
Perhaps “doc1019” thinks all cops are criminals like the ones in this article. Perhaps all cops “doc1019” knew were such criminals. Perhaps “doc1019” was himself such a criminal.
Not saying it’s so, but it would explain his behaviour on this thread.
Disband the BATFE. Completely. Eliminate it.
My local PD got the wrong address once. They knocked on my door. "Police" I opened it. "We're looking for Johnny" (I reacted name). No Johnny here. He lives down the road. "Thank you. Have you seen him? If you see him, call 911" No doors busted down. No guns pointed at me. Just the flashlight.
I don't have problems with my local PD or the sheriff's dept. These federal swat team MF'ers and glory hound wannabes are a whole other manner. Drugs are bad, but the drug war is worse.
People don’t force their way into the wrong premises “by mistake” all the time.
Unless, of course, they are government employees.
There are still good police forces. Prosper, Texas comes to mind. Mostly retired military, know their people, aren’t jerks. In fact will arrest thugcops from a nearby town called [redacted] if they so much as drive into Prosper in their cruisers.
But far too many cops these days are exectly what you describe. Sigh.
It is in Texas, too. It’s just not explicitly codified, but it has happened. Falls under various existing statutes.
Indiana just made it explicit. Bravo for that.
A cop is a cop until he breaks the law, then he is a thug with a badge.
Not all cops are bad but when good cops don’t speak out against the bad acts of other cops then they are no better than the bad cops because their silence is consent.
Both these ladies (size 40 DDD) used to sunbath topless out on the balcony. Mob families are so crude, really!
One day somebody discovered that he ~ the Columbian ~ had not been paying right, or hadn't come across the requisite quantities of blow, so somebody sent somebody down to "enforce'.
So my wife was across the street with the baby talking to the neighbor lady on the porch and they watched as a guy pulled up out front, got out of his car, ran up to my front door, pushed his way in, ran through the house, went out the back door, and finding himself surrounded by fence, piled up some things, climbed up, and jumped over the fence.
He came out the Columbian dope dealer's front garage door carrying a weed whacker (tubular handle undoubtedly full of something).
He was happy.
So, what was it you said about people going to the wrong address?
I think where a lot of the DEA stuff got off track was when they brought in loaners from other agencies. Virtually all the postal inspectors I knew ended up being borrowed, mostly for duty in Florida ~ in the summer.
Their normal environment for field duty is inside an air conditioned post office. For most of them their only armed duty was in doing stakeouts for DEA.
I suppose it was the same with the Treasury agents, IRS collection and seizure agents, and so on. No doubt somebody thought it enhanced resumes. At the same time these were precisely the kind of cops who were not into taking risks when delivering warrants.
All home invasion specialists, check this ~ Illinois is sitting there ripe for the picking.
The SOG wannabees and bumbling Barney's brought it on themselves. Unfortunately for the many good men and women in blue, the high percentages of bad apples and the unwillingness to toss them out does spoil the whole department.
As for the BATF, there's no reason for the U.S. taxpayer to waste any more money keeping that federal boondoggle in existence.
We are no more secure in our homes than if we were in the old Soviet Union.
These people can raid your home, put a gun to your head at the heads of your children, then say, “oops, we got the wrong house”.
Driving from point A to point B late in the evening you can find yourself queued up with several other autos with officers asking, “papers please”.
Ariel drones buzzing around checking out the backyards of average citizens....you know, just in case there is something illegal.
Back-scatter vans running the highways xraying vans, trucks and trailers without a warrant.
GPS devices placed on vehicles with out warrants.
DHS grants given to local law enforcement all over the nation to beef up military grade weaponry, armored vehicles, surveillance capabilities. Local departments look more like sophisticated military units rather than community law enforcement.
Webs of cameras installed throughout urban areas that rival anything in the U.K. police state.
Draconian regulation from DHS, TSA, EPA and every other alphabet federal agency pressing down on individual liberties of the American citizen.
How many muzzies have they caught on our shores? How many terror attacks since 911?
I dunno, seems a bit much to me. Feels like freedom slipping away.
This “doc1019” creature appears incapable of distinguishing between criticism of criminal cops and criticism of all cops.
True! And "doc1019" needs to consider he's not the only freeper who did/does tote a badge for a living. Regardless, even to the untrained eye, it is quite easy to discern between the "Barney Fifes" and the "Andy Griffiths".
You’re seriously using a criminal’s activities to attempt to justify further criminal activity?
Law abiding American citizens do not intrude on other people’s homes and claim they merely got the “wrong address”.
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