It’s kinda like having a tracked armored car. You’ve got to find reasons to roll it out.
Posted on 12/03/2022 10:33:32 AM PST by Fido969
The SWAT team used a battering ram on Johnson's garage door, and in the fruitless search that followed, "a prized doll from our client's collection had its head broken off — and the things in her home were left in disarray," Silverstein recounts.
And although almost a year has passed since the raid, Johnson still "feels unsafe in her home," he adds. "She's afraid to answer the phone, and for several months, she stayed with her daughter, and then she stayed with her son, rather than the home she's owned and lived in for forty years."
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Pretty sure I could have opened that door without a battering ram and with minimal damage (if any).
There’s going to be a BIG payout. Do the SWAT (high speed, low drag, special operators) teams always have to trash the place or are they just trying to emulate the FBI?
She must not have had a dog. There’s no mention of it getting shot.
Check out the Civil Rights Lawyer. He covers this stuff in West Virginia:
https://www.youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyer
Time after time of stories of untrained cops.
The attorney had a great commentary:
In Silverstein's view, such lessons are necessary. "What we're saying is that the detective didn't have enough facts to justify a raid on our client's house," he notes. "He didn't do a proper investigation. He should never have asked for a search warrant, his supervisor should never have signed off on it, the DA shouldn't have greenlighted it, the judge shouldn't have issued it, and the SWAT team should have stayed home."
I think they went next door afterwards and kicked a puppy.
Unfortunately, Silverstein continues, Staab "didn't do any corroboration. He didn't investigate further. He just wrote up a search warrant based on the truck owner's use of the Find My app. The affidavit even included a screenshot that was evidently from the truck owner's operation of the app, and the detective wrote that it showed the iPhone inside the house. But this statement was wrong. It was false — a misrepresentation of what the app was showing."
Just another in a long, long list of examples of lazy and incompetent police work. In fact, there was no police work here at all. Just the amped-up SWAT team ultimately leaping into action on a whim. Then they say, oh, gee, my bad.
Did they at least try turning the knob first?
Most cops/swat guys are just jumped up wanna be rambo’s. A lot of them like the authority and being able to boss/push people around...”because I said so” type attitude.
I don’t really have much use for cops...know way too many who are nothing control freaks and thugs. And has we all witnessed in Alvarado many are just plain cowards when push comes to shove. But they are real brave when ordering around little old ladies and others. Take their guns away and they are all just talk and pansy’s.
Hey, at least they all got home safely.
Unlikely.
“Dave” didn’t do his last cycle of D-Bol to open doors with the doorknob...
The SWAT team used a battering ram on Johnson’s garage door, and in the fruitless search that followed, “a prized doll from our client’s collection had its head broken off — and the things in her home were left in disarray,” Silverstein recounts. And although almost a year has passed since the raid, Johnson still “feels unsafe in her home,” he adds. “She’s afraid to answer the phone, and for several months, she stayed with her daughter, and then she stayed with her son, rather than the home she’s owned and lived in for forty years.”
There’s going to be a BIG payout. Do the SWAT (high speed, low drag, special operators) teams always have to trash the place or are they just trying to emulate the FBI?
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I remember several years back the cops in this rather large metro where I reside did a full blown swat raid with a battering ram on the house *next door* to the house they were supposed to swat. The result was they caused a fatal heart attack to a retired pastor living in the home. Multi-million dollar settlement (which is fair) paid by the taxpayers (which is not).
Democrat police…
“I could have opened that door without a battering ram”
But where’s the fun in that? If the cops are not allowed to use all their paramilitary toys to terrorize the citizenry, then what good are they?
‘Once Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas was made aware of concerns expressed by Ms. Johnson’s family regarding the warrant, the Department reached out to the family.”’
Unless they reached out with a big bag full of cash, and confirmation that the detective writing the warrant was fired and the judge who signed off on it is impeached, that don’t mean squat.
𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘳. 𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵.
San Franciscans are going to learn a one hell of a lesson in tyranny when the SFPD eventually starts finding more “extreme” circumstances which the use lethal force via drone/robot.
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