"We check the door; if it's unlocked we enter," Terrell said. "The door was locked, so they breached the door. There was an obstruction at the door. They tossed a 'flash bang' The "obstruction" was the playpen.
"We keep asking ourselves, 'how did this happen?'," Terrell said. "No one can answer that - you can't answer that. You try and do everything right. Bad things can happen. That's just the world we live in. Bad things happen to good people.
"The baby didn't deserve this," Terrell said. "The family didn't deserve this - this family was displaced from another home down here and apparently just moved in with her."
Terrell said both the district attorney and Georgia Bureau of Investigation have said there was no wrongdoing on the SRT's part.
"I've talked to the D.A., I've talked to the GBI," Terrell said. "I've given them the whole information and they say there's nothing else we can do. There's nothing to investigate, there's nothing to look at." Translation: Nothing to see here, we decided no investigation is needed so everyone move on.
So, what did more damage, on all scales of measure -
the guy buying some drugs,
or the militarized “police” “breaching” the man’s home and burning a toddler with one of their “toys”?
When you have police investigating police its always the same answer.
People don't want to hear about a 2 yr old getting a flash bang in its play pen....so the child was merely distracted, not burned by an incendiary device they delivered on poor intel
Flash-bang grenades are now fastidiously refered to as “distraction devices”. You know Sheriff Terrell is running scared.
“”We keep asking ourselves, ‘how did this happen?’,” Terrell said. “No one can answer that - you can’t answer that. You try and do everything right. Bad things can happen. That’s just the world we live in. Bad things happen to good people.”
Gee, I had no problem figuring out what happened. The police threw an explosive not knowing what was there. It could have been a playpen, a bookcase, a pile of bowling balls, a passed out drunk or a stash of nito or TNT or gasoline. They didn’t think it mattered at the time.
> both the district attorney and Georgia Bureau of Investigation
> have said there was no wrongdoing on the SRT’s part.
Of course not. There never is any wrongdoing on the cops part. Not even when they murder innocent people and children. Hey, if there weren’t any criminals among us, they wouldn’t have to be so tough on us, right?
I asked one of the officers why they waited until 9am to surround the house. He said they knew there were kids in the house and wanted to wait until they went to school.
It was kind of a weird situation. They sat outside and used a bullhorn to urge the occupants to either come out or pick up the phone. They didn't break in. After a few hours they left a token force. Later the guy came home and the situation was resolved.
Thread:
Toddler critically injured by ‘flash bang’ during police search
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3161587/posts
What is a “distraction device” to the police is a bomb, subject to NFA Destructive Device laws, when we peasants have them. When is a bomb not a bomb? Peasants with bombs of less power than flash-bang grenades have been charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction. Making the police, which have devices of greater power, organized terrorist groups. (Unless a caste system of entailing double standards exist.)
The cops should all be in jail
I suppose the only LEGAL recourse is voting this unconstitutional sheriff out of office come next election.Under the ridiculous immunity doctrines ,no law enforcement person ever personally loses money even in the few instances a ruling is in favor of the injured innocent party.
They forgot to mention that they likely blew out the poor kid’s ear drums...And maybe ruptured all the blood vessels in his eyes...
All those kids in Waco got “burned” by a “distraction device” too. Don’t ya just love all the “1984” style NewSpeak that’s foisted on us my a compliant media?
Sanitizing and minimizing the event are only the beginning.
All the signs were there that children might be present, but they went ahead anyway. That's negligent.
They keep asking themselves “How did this happen?” — because for one thing they did not exercise proper care and due diligence.
From the original story you posted yesterday:
// Thometheva was not at the home at the time of the raid but was later arrested at another house on a felony drug charge of distribution of meth. ...
... Officers had no indication that any children were inside the Lakeview Heights home when they returned around 3 a.m. Wednesday, Terrell said, and approached the same door where drugs had been purchased.
But this time, the device landed in the playpen where a toddler was sleeping. Little Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanhs and his family, including parents and three older sisters, were all asleep in the room while visiting from Wisconsin. Only the little boy was injured. //
Obviously they had no CLUE what or who was in that house if 1) the person they want isn’t there and 2) a family of 6 (SIX) *is* there that they were unaware of.
Btw, the reason that family (allegedly) was there is that “ The family was only supposed to be in Georgia temporarily after a fire at their Wisconsin home, the Phonesavanhs said.”
THIS IS WRONG.
The answer is because we have jack booted thugs inforcing warrants instead of police officers in the normal course of their daily work. SWAT teams are a symptom that the police are at war with the citizens. The poor baby sleeping in his crib was just collateral damage and to be expected.
COVERUP !!!