The police report citing the multiple plans for dealing with the residents will also play well, as will a good examination of the use of force against the son on the first entry.
One of the huge things that will cost the city a lot of money is picking the wrong guy to contact the victims in the first place. If they were dealing with a barricaded suspect and wanted access to the other properties, it is all in the way you sell it. There are probably several guys in that department that could have gotten access to those home with a smile, a handshake and an expression of concern for the homeowners' safety, but they didn't one of those guys.
I am sure that the legal pleading puts the worst spin possible on it, but there is still a huge WTF factor on this whole event. The saddest part of this story is that they were able to assemble so many officers willing to do something that screwed up, without somebody saying stop and think about this.
One, cops lost the cooperation when they started treating people as subjects, rather than as citizens to be served and respected.
” The saddest part of this story is that they
were able to assemble so many officers
willing to do something that screwed up,
without somebody saying stop and think
about this.”
Cops no longer question if they should do something. They now only look at our rights and dignity as some obsticle.
Remember, there was no call be LE for punishment of the officers who shot at innocents in the Dorner hunt. Only excuses.
The saddest part of this story is that they were able to assemble so many officers willing to do something that screwed up, without somebody saying stop and think about this.......The saddest part of this story is that they were able to HIRE so many officers willing to do something that screwed up, without somebody saying stop and think about this. Police Academy 101. We are not in Baghdad. The training officer (if Henderson has one) should be incarcerated also.
RTFA genius. This was thuggery writ large, with badges!