Breaking and entering, assault, kidnapping, threatening with deadly weapons, trespassing.
It's a long list of felonies...
...that the police committed.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Those damn Swat creeps again.
So the folks who are collecting evidence and planning to testify in court cannot even find the correct address.
Oppps sorry, our bad. Won’t happen again.
ooops!!
Glad no one was injured. Mistakes like this cost people thier lives.
If the cops did that I my house, with out knocking or identification, I would die in a hail of gun fire and one or two of them would go with me.
Can you imagine the terror they went through.
guys all dressed in black with BIG guns, dragging you out of bed.
BTW, what is this worth on todays settlement market?
I swear to God, when I read that, I thought I had stumbled upon an article from The Onion. Are idiots like these EVER going to be held responsible?
Wouldn’t know if they were for real and that alone would make me have a HA.
Can they be sued?
This seems to more of a recurring Nightmare, there have been several of these screwups reported of late.
What In The Hell is going on in this country???
Way Too Many Trigger Happy SWAT teams out there.
They can sue for damages stemming from false arrest, kidnapping and illegal imprisonment under color of authority. The police will make mistakes but not checking a warrant is inexcusable - as well as not phoning the boss to verify they have the correct location.
Sounds like breaking and entering an occupied dwelling, brandishing a weapon, false arrest and imprisonment, and communicating terrorist threats to me.
“inadvertently affected”
I will never understand how this kind of mistake happens.
What kind of investigation have these LEO’s conducted if they can not even correctly identify the correct house that a suspect lives in?
How can they serve a no knock warrant with out having real time eyes on knowledge that the suspect is in the house?
If they had an signed warrant for the address of Mckay home then they officers that submitted the warrant should be prosecuted for perjury.
If they served the warrant on the wrong house (the warrant was for another address) then they should be disciplined by their superiors for incompetence.
and even threatened to shoot their dog,
What a bunch of softies. Usually they shoot first and justify later.
Wait until they start busting tobacco smokers.
Since it is a WAR on Drugs, shouldn't this little gem apply?
< /SARC>
I don’t know why the press lets these cops off the hook by using the word “mistakenly” when it is pretty clear that they did intentionally bust into this particular house and they did intentionally threaten and harass these particular people.
Breaking and entering, assault, kidnapping, threatening with deadly weapons, trespassing.
It's a long list of felonies...
...that the police committed.
Sue them..
Well, at least you presumably can't buy any weed in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania now.