Posted on 06/02/2014 9:40:48 AM PDT by Altariel
CNN has updates on the story of the Georgia SWAT team that threw a flash bang while executing a no-knock warrant that severely burned a nineteen-month-old baby. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell says the deputies involved are "devastated" and that they've been called "baby killers" and received threats. "All I can say is pray for the baby, his family and for us," the sheriff told CNN.
Terrell has insisted his officers and those of the local police department did nothing wrong and blamed the target of the warrant (not found at the house that was invaded) on the attack on the toddler. A chief assistant district attorney for the county, J. Edward Staples, says the target of the warrant could in fact be charged for the injuries the sheriff's deputies caused the toddler. In an obvious attempt to immunize himself and his office from liability, the sheriff has claimed the situation was unavoidable even as he attempted to offer reassurances that his SWAT team would be more diligent in the future. He told CNN that his officers "obviously would have done things different" (IF they knew there was a child in the home), like go in through a side door or not use a flash bang.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
The woman who ran over and killed my biker friend successfully sued his widow for *her* psychological distress.
If he’d not been there for her to run down, she’d not be suffering so.
It is a fupped uck world.
There is NO excuse for what these militant cops did. They are suppose to protect and serve. The protect part means you don’t throw grenades into a playpen and you make sure the person you are actually looking for is at the location. They could have took him without risking harm to others. But that would have taken effort and would have kept them from playing with their toys.
I just don’t see why they had to go in so heavy. So either they have watched to much television or something is missing from the story.
Apparently they get a bigger smile (or something) from blindly throwing a grenade into a home.
Remember: “to protect and serve” does not state Whom or What is being protected and served.
Too many people assumed it was those paying the officers’ salaries.
Were this true, we wouldn’t be at this point today.
That was before a Georgia State Legislator called BS and asked for a Federal probe:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/02/toddler-injured-flash-grenade-raid/9893021/
Regardless of the officers intent...you lob a freaking grenade into a home and injure a child, you are to be held responsible.
FU Serif.
Bastuhd
Hold your people accountable.
They didn’t do their job properly.
Charge them with the crime they committed
They are armed to the teeth with weapons, armor, immunity, pensions, and bennies. This costs a lot of money, liberty, and lives. The excess could probably be replaced with a couple of intelligent, well-paid, agents that are held to the highest Constitutional standards, and who personally fund their own retirement plans; i.e., no special immunity, no pensions, no stupidity.
My prayers that he goes to hell?
Senator Fort is a camera hound who has little credibility in Georgia government.
Responsibility dies not apply to knights of the realm.
Now, Peasant, if you throw a grenade into a house and injure s child, well see to it that you are out away for attempted murder.
Get used to it. One law for thee, another for he.
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#YHGTBKM
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