Posted on 02/07/2009 3:04:18 PM PST by ellery
"They hit the door right here and the door flew open," says Mike Hasenei, standing outside his Elkridge home.
His wife, Phyllis, was watching television with her 12-year old daughter when members of the Howard County Police Tactical Team came through the door.
"They had guns pointed at us. You have 25 guys coming in here all dressed in black and all that we saw were their eyes, and they're screaming 'Hands in the air!'"
Members of the team were acting upon a tip that an assault rifle, magazines and hollow-point bullets stolen from a marked police car the night before may be located inside.
Adding insult to injury, when the search led police to a back bedroom where they encountered the family’s dog, they opened fire.
Officers found no evidence of the stolen goods after ransacking the house.
At this point a complaint has been logged against the department, but Howard County Police aren't about to admit they were wrong or to apologize for their actions.
"No. We didn't find a weapon in this particular case,” said Sherry Llewellyn, a spokeswoman for the department, “but that doesn't mean that there wasn't good information that there were weapons there before we had a chance to get inside the house."
Now, Mike Hasenei is waiting on an Internal Affairs investigation into the raid before deciding whether he and his family will take the department to court.
"I'm not gonna sit down and let people walk all over me and say 'sorry' and walk out of my house."
The fact that it happened at all is enough to warrant concern.
If you are still in the U.S.A., you are still not safe.
The real question is "What is it with SWAT teams?"
No matter how bad the situation, it can always be made worse by adding a cop.
There are.
Now if we could only get the cops to hang out at the cop (or donut) shop until one of us asks them to come out and round them up, that would be good.
If you discount those that met their demise during "routine traffic stops", the numbers would be much less.
Cops engaging in "routine traffic stops" are nothing but highwaymen and tax collectors and are worthy of contempt.
Oh yeah, I know that, but Georgia is a laissez faire paradise compared to the hyper-nanny state of Maryland (for now).
Actually no. "Struck by vehicle" and "vehicular assault" seem to make up only about 10%
The bigger category is "vehicular accident" (c.30%), where the cop is actually driving the car. Take their cars away if you want to make a difference.
“Oh yeah, I know that, but Georgia is a laissez faire paradise compared to the hyper-nanny state of Maryland (for now). “
I take it you missed the Kathyrn Johnston episode?
When I got my first firearm at the age of twelve I was taught to “lock it up.”
Please tell me that this LEO did not have it in a vehicle parked outside a cafe/donut shop when it was stolen.
I sure hope you aren’t in the health and safety profession—or anything requiring logic or statistical analysis!
We are discussing a specific activity, not the profession as a whole—you can’t take a profession’s risk rating and infer the risk of a specific activity within it.
Play Russian Roulette once during your life and the lifetime risk goes up slightly in a statistical sense...but that doesn’t mean Russian Roulette is anything other than highly dangerous.
That's okay...they can just find one of their murderer or rapist buddies to help protect them.
Right...obviously the dog was carrying a concealed weapon under his undercoating /sarc
You have a penchance for hyperbole.
Black face sheep are the meanest ... they’ll try every time to intimidate the dogs ... my girl has what’s called “Border Collie Eye” ... one eye is brown the other a brilliant blue. She’ll turn her head so that the blue eye is looking at the sheep and they back off ...
I can actually talk to her in sentences and she understands what I’m saying ... spooky. like I’ll tell her to go get a certain toy and she’ll dig in her basket to find it. At the end of the day I tell her to put things back and she runs around picking them up .... sometimes she’ll take back a toy and get another ....
ps - dad says she’s not a real dog if she can’t fetch a beer from the fridge ... I told him she’s a wine drinker ....
OMG, I know. I talk to Benny in sentences and even ones I have never used before he seems to understand.. Spooky is right! Not only that.. He is either amazing at reading body language or is telepathic.. Maybe both!
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