Me stomp kitty. That my job."
Posted on 04/10/2008 8:06:37 AM PDT by woollyone
MIAMI -- Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives barged into a South Florida home Wednesday only to discover they had the wrong address.
The ATF agents were supposed to conduct a raid at a home in the 2600 block of Northwest 49th Terrace in northwest Miami-Dade County, but they were off by one block. They entered a house on Northwest 49th Street instead.
A mother and her 2-year-old boy were among the innocent people inside the home when the agents came in
That alone is a statement of how screwed up things have become.
That’s heresy to the authoritarian statists here who always defend cops....no matter what they do.
Yes to all of the above. Otherwise these guys shouldn't be in the law-enforcement business, because NOT doing those things is un-Constitutional.
The ATF are to cops what mall security guards are too the FBI
A first day reporter would have asked more about this.
If the canisters are in the garbage, wouldn't a curious person/reporter/camera guy want to see them?
Kicking a live gas grenade is way beyond stupid, yet no mention of any gas grenades actually being used? So, where would empties come from?
If they had been used, wouldn't the woman & BABY need medical attention? Who passes up on video of an innocent woman & her baby being loaded into an ambulance? Every camera phone in the ‘hood would have had this one.
Finally, unless GWB has bombed the ghettos of Miami, why aren't the local liberal fish wrappers all over this “OUTRAGEOUS!” mistake. Remember little Ilian Gonzalez? Miami-ans do! Gassing a baby would fill every news channel on cable. (It's a real slooow news day).
Very Fishy!
We the people want you to fix her door back, clean up her house, get your spent tear gas canisters and other trash out of her home and have the cost of counseling for the victims taken out of the base pay of the participants of this raid.
And that's just getting into the zone of 'making your victims whole'.
They might try reading the street sign twice, just to make sure they’re at least on the right street.
Where’s Henry Bowman when we need him?
True.
The ONLY time a “no-knock” raid is justified is if there are hostages involved.
The entire “preventing destruction of evidence” canard is moot, since every sewage system has manholes where a screen or bucket can catch everything flushed down the crapper.
If the police are too inept and/or lazy to ensure they are at the correct address, they should be held criminally liable for their every ILLEGAL action. A “raid” on an incorrect address is a home invasion by thugs, whether they wear a uniform or “gangsta” clothing.
There will be no “Henry Bowmen”, no “hog feeding time”, no “Claire Wolfe” time. Just more American Idol.
How about just arresting the suspects when they are out on the street where you can simply walk up behind them and grab them.
Me stomp kitty. That my job."
Says who? I'm sure they could find something to charge them with. </sarcasm>
Or a journalist.Any damn fool can be a journalist these days...
Good thing the victims didn't have a cell phone in their hands that coulda been mistaken for a gun. Hell, what if this mother had let her child play with toy guns?
I agree that society is worse than a couple of generations ago.
My brother in law is a cop. In today's world, every encounter with a citizen is scary.
I thank your Brother-in-law for his service, but I disagree that every encounter with a citizen should be "scary." Proper caution should be taken for every encounter, but if he's walking around scared in everyu encounter, he's in the wrong job.
It's hard to stay alive and not be uber-cautious because the country is full of psychopaths with RPG's.
I think I now understand why he is scared with every citizen encounter. He's operating off of some very bad information.
If you're a cop, you err on the side of overwhelming force and pray you don't make mistakes.
If he is operating with this mindset, lawsuits and likely criminal charges are in his future. And you can count him as one of the reasons for the ongoing decline and fall of Western Civilization
I went through two seperate acadamies in the 1980s. Is this what is being taught today? We were taught how to be ethical and correct in our actions.
Yes:
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . ."
". . . After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur "what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!"
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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