Posted on 06/09/2006 7:38:19 AM PDT by VRing
A Stockbridge couple whose home was mistakenly raided by Henry County Police last year as they sought a drug suspect is seeking $8 million in damages from the incident.
In a lawsuit filed last month in Superior Court against county officials and police, Roy and Belinda Baker say they were roused out of bed by police who used a battering ram to knock down their door and threw concussive grenades into their home around 1 a.m. Sept. 30.
“The Law Enforcement Defendants accosted the Bakers in the hallway to their bedroom, where they had been sleeping, and yelled at the Bakers, threatened, assaulted and unlawfully touched the Bakers, and placed the Bakers face down, at gunpoint ...” the suit says.
(Excerpt) Read more at henryherald.com ...
Lies, lies, and misrepresentations.
Drug dealing has moved upscale. My next door neighbor in a 'hood filling up with McMansions could be dealing and as long as he doesn't attract traffic all day and night I'd never know.
One man's oh shucks is the next man's poop his pants off for the next ten years. You cannot judge until you have not just walked in his moccasins, but had his corns and bunions.
They broke, among other things, community trust by failing to make a very easy distinction that they know makes as much difference as exists between lightning and the lightning bug.
They need to be held liable for CONSEQUENCES. You sound like a shier away from CONSEQUENCES.
Why even 10k to the family over physical reparations? Why not 10 cents?
Whatever else may be said about the new restrictions on pseudoephedrine, they have brought household meth labs to their knees for lack of copious raw material.
Yes, 'stuff' does happen. Let the local sewage authority spill some untreated sludge into the river that does not hurt anyone, and watch how hard the EPA hits them. Let industrial plant have an unsafe working condition, and watch how hard OSHA hits them even if no one was hurt.
I would think that a PD with quite literally the power of life and death should be held to the same kind of standards we hold sewage plant operators to. The purpose of the fines is to be sure you get their attention so that "Stuff" will happen less and less often, and few thing focus attention better than a hard hit to the budget. And that focus just might prevent a horrible tragedy of people getting killed in some 'screw up.' (That BTW will also cost tens of millions before all the losses are settled and permanently haunt the lives of all involved.)
It's the same reason military DIs punish recruits for every minor infraction -- the focus they instill will possibly save that recruits life some day. It's not small stuff.
Bottom line was they did arrest a drug dealer next door, so they were in the right area for correct reasons, just at first got the wrong door.
They got the bad guy and made a mistake.
Find out how many bedrooms those 8 people lived in and you will know what kind of people are looking for the lottery lawsuit.
A couple, as in married couple. Where did you get this eight nonsense.
Were I to witness a swat raid next door and I had drugs in the house, they would be in the toilet in a minute.
But surely not your "grand hearted" $10k, and why not deduct for betterment, after all a new door vs. a used one?
I think you can see where your soul is pointed, and it's south.
How about doing your own digging before accusing meth lab. Odds, especially in a state having pseudoephedrine restrictions (not to be confused with pseudo-cerebral restrictions, as would apply to you) favor a stash of something like ecstasy or marijuana.
But to get back to the basics, there need to be CONSEQUENCES. You know jolly well this will be at worst a rejiggering of city finances. The occifers will what, be demoted to a life of being private security guards, a sinecure in most cases. (They cannot be outsourced to India.)
You give no weight to soul murder, that shows where your own soul is pointed.
Drug use was suspected.
A house was raided.
Point made.
¡Strelnikov!
No, not really.
This particular mint is seldom awarded and when it is, it is usually richly deserved.
And there have been home breakins in my area where they theives wear black jumpsuits "scream" police and flash phony badges and by the time people figured out it wasn't the cops, it was too damn late.
If cops are going to do breakins (no knock searches), there is an added responsibility on their part to be 100% sure they have the right address. These mistakes happen far too often. This isn't like knocking on the wrong door serving a search warrent. Innocent people have been injured and killed many times in these things.
Do the rooskies use the inverted exclamation point? Only place I have seen it is Spanish, and I learned some rooskie in my younger years in preparation for a trip abroad.
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