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To: bboop
I'm with the Texan. The SWAT team never has come rampaging into MY home.

send me your address and we can fix that right away. Seriously though, all it takes is a grudge from a neighbor, ex, coworker you beat out for a promotion, anything. Lace your garbage with some drugs, phone in an anonymous tip to the police that you are a dealer, and you too can have masked, armed men destroy your house. I hope you aren't a gun owner with fast reflexes who, knowing he/she is innocent of criminal activity, assumes the armed men are criminals and tries to defend him/herself.

That happened here not too long ago (TN). Cops got the address wrong, broke into an elderly couple's home, and the man was shot dead trying to defend his wife. Oh well, so sorry. We were following protocol, after all.

30 posted on 10/28/2006 11:51:02 AM PDT by jdub
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To: jdub

"That happened here not too long ago (TN). Cops got the address wrong, broke into an elderly couple's home, and the man was shot dead trying to defend his wife. Oh well, so sorry. We were following protocol, after all."

Was that in Lebanon, Tn.?


67 posted on 10/28/2006 1:07:54 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: jdub

" That happened here not too long ago (TN). Cops got the address wrong,.."

Not the only raid on an innocent homeowner due to wrong information. I am not sure if there is a site that tracks these incidents but I bet it would make interesting reading.


79 posted on 10/28/2006 1:48:18 PM PDT by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: jdub

I remember that incident. There are far too many of these incidents I read every week.

This story never explained how officers found "traces of cocaine and marijuana" in the trash. Do these weekend warriors go around digging through people's trash now?

We can't arrest and deport millions of illegal aliens here commiting crimes, or solve murders, etc., because we are busy digging in people's trash looking for a marijuana cigarette and shooting people's dogs?

Something is wrong here.


138 posted on 10/30/2006 10:37:13 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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