Posted on 12/03/2010 9:28:12 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Kansas City police have started an internal investigation to determine if tactical officers acted properly when they broke into a home and threw a stun grenade that caught drapes on fire.
After barging in, police realized her brother did not live there and left without searching, Jones said.
“All of that could have been avoided,” said Jones, who was not home at the time. “Whatever happened to good old-fashioned investigating?”
Such “police-state techniques” should be reserved for the most extreme cases, said a national expert on criminal procedures.
“What we’re talking about here is police throwing bombs into people’s houses,” said Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a law professor at the University of Georgia. “To use a device like this for a search warrant for a cell phone when a guy is locked up is unbelievable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
was unnecessary, considering that the search warrant was for a cell phone used by her brother, who had moved out four months earlier and was in police custody.
When you get new toys you’re going to use them.
Kinda like giving a sledgehammer to a gorilla then being appalled once he starts destroying things...
Kansas City?
If the article hadn’t said where this incdent happened, I’d have though it was Florida or Minneapolis.
Oops... another police screwup.
The taxpayers are on the hook again.
Such as busting that guy smoking a doobie and eating Cheetos who grows his own. Yea, he is one dangerous character.
Okay Freeps take a breath. This area is a Compton/Camden/Detroit/South side of Chicago wannabe with a seriously Lib social justice newspaper reporting the story. Believe me you should be much more suspicious of the story than the cops.
See... .gov employees think of themselves as the ruling class, exempt from all laws they pass, which are enforced upon us and us only.
They are special and deserve special treatment, such as immunity from prosecution and civl judgments while engaged in criminal activity in the name of the “justice system”...
What’s there to be suspicious of?
The search warrant was for a cell phone, the judge did not authorize any type of no-knock provisions, yet these uniform wearing neanderthals stormed in doing their best DELTA FORCE Impression all to retrieve a CELL PHONE from a guy who was already in jail...
What part of this passes your logic?
Ah, Hell, all that stuff is so much fun to play with! Give them bigger guns, they’ll find bigger targets.
You mean like the Philly Police Dept when they dropped a bomb from a helicopter destroying an entire city block?
It is a story from the KC Scar. I need a second opinion
I say unfair comparison. That place was a festering sore, and the bomb thing was a well considered action, however badly it may have turned out. I don’t think it’s comparable to cases such as this thread where an entirely innocuous residence gets clobbered.
That was under Mayor Wilson Goode, and I felt for the guy. Funny thing - I went to a July 4th celebration in Philly shortly after that, and I was standing along a parade route when the Mayor and his Posse, er entourage, came around the bend. He was at some distance, but right in my line of sight, and I gave him a single big wave. I swear he looked my way and waved back ... never really know, though.
Yeah, somehow the idea JeTuan Jones had antiques seems a tad unlikely
There is just no release from the itch of constant steroid use like a good old forced entry. Those poor hairless, shrunk ball, shaved headed illiterates couldn’t help themselves. Frankly, they are victims.
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In forty years, I have never heard of a judge being disciplined for bad warrants.
Why?
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