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Full Title: Sheriff in Burned Baby Raid Wants Your Prayers; Target of Warrant Could Be Charged For Injuries to Toddler
SWAT Nazis.
Nothing wrong? Since when do you fire a weapon when your not sure of your target. The one they wanted was not even there...
I don’t think the Sheriff knows what the word “unavoidable” means.
I suppose charging the a-hole who actually tossed the grenade is out of the question.
The whole damned lot of them should be indicted and prosecuted, including the idiot judge who signed off on it.
Throwing an explosive device into an occupied dwelling is an inherently dangerous act. In order to ensure that officers exercise due care, they should be strictly liable for any injury to innocents that result from their acts.
We couldn't have done anything differently - but from now on we'll do things differently. The keen mind of a JBT at work.
They’re going to charge the OCCUPANT for the injuries caused by the grenade tossed by HIS officers?
Absolutely ridiculous and outrageous!
No such thing as a "stake out" any more?
They can't have officers watching the residence to verify their target is actually there?
Yeh not that they are getting death threats and a trillion dollar lawsuit to follow they feel devastated.
This is total BS. Why didn’t they know the subject of the raid was not home? Looks like they had zero intel on this. Why not just follow the guy and pick him up at work or at the store? Better yet why not just knock on the door in broad daylight and execute the warrant like they are supposed to do?
So no drugs, no arrests, the perp not home and they just had to do a no knock raid it was so extremely urgent.
For anyone who has not had the pleasure of visiting Cornelia, GA its a little teeny tiny town up in the foothills of N GA. If you blink you miss it.
Now that is real power, and it shows how crazy deadly the cops have become, and how corrupt and fascistic the system is against us now.
It sure doesn't inspire confidence that this horror resulting from a routine arrest, will result in fundamental change in anything.
That being said, if SWAT could charge Joe Citizen with a crime, even when Joe Citizen wasn't anywhere near that location, then we're all in trouble.
The only ones guilty of anything here is the SWAT team who didn't do proper due-dillegence before they played with their toys.
I thought there wasn’t a need for further investigation.
Also, we’ll make sure the one who made this YouTube video pays for the attacks at Benghazi.
I want to know what the warrant was for. Was the subject a violent offender on his way to prison for life? Was he on the run for murdering LEO? What history suggests SWAT was even needed? What determines the force of entry they plan to use and isn’t there any recon done to ensure the target is there?
Our Marines in Afghanistan weren’t allowed to enter residence with this much force unless they were under fire. Our combat rules of engagement are more strict than our LEO.
For these LEO to excuse this is really beyond the pale. I question how dangerous this family was considering they took in a family (relatives) whose house just burnt down. I’m not suggesting an arrest warrant wasn’t proper (though I don’t know the charges). But a swat team,... using explosives and a no-knock warrant? As another FReeper pointed out, if they were doing any surveillance, they should have known 1) the target wasn’t there and 2) there were children in the house. I SUSPECT THEY KNEW ONE OR BOTH and didn’t care.
I do not understand why these cops are such wussies. This was not freaking Pablo Escobar they are going after for crying out loud. Ever hear of a stake out morons?
The reckless idiots claimed that they did not know that there were children in the house BUT, they threw the grenade into a play pen for crying out loud. Did the think their dealer was armed and hiding in the play pen.
Here’s the problem w most of the SWAT raids gone bad:
The SWAT Teams are so anxious to get out and play, that they don’t bother to double check their facts just prior to execution.
1-Have we verified the address?
2-When was the last check on occupancy?
3-Do we know the subject is present?
4-What are the risks SWAT is presenting to innocents?
They deserve to be prosecuted. Tossing explosive into a non-threatening residence is absolutely a violation of civil rights and physical assault worthy of the criminal charges.