[marktwain]

A very important case. The Vangs used armed resistance to defend themselves against the police, and not only survived, but are being compensated.

[The KG9 Kid]

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[the invisib1e hand]

Been through a swat raid, though not as dramatic as this one.

The cops denied it ever happened.

But that was in Florida, 20 years ago. Civil rights have come along way since then.

[KoRn]

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[AD from SpringBay]

This type of settlement should happen every time the wrong house is invaded by the paramilitary police. The amount should double for every killed family pet.

[RobinOfKingston]

She said ... most police officers are good ...

Be nice if there was a sure-fire way to tell the difference.

[Big_Monkey]

Wow, that's a story. It is miraculous that almost 30 rounds went down range and no one was killed. Something's got to be done about these no-knock warrants. Things are getting out of hand.

Incidentally, am I the only one who didn't know what a "Hmong" family is?

[davisfh]

There is something particularly sweet about living rural and having an acquaintance with those might be called upon to raid a given home. Barring an incursion by Hussein Obama’s (as yet to be inaugurated) Civil Security Force, I feel safe.

[Michael.SF.]

Heffelfinger said police, who were looking for black suspects, should have realized that a Hmong family resided at the home... because of various Hmong-related "ornaments and other things"

So the police should have racially profiled a typical 'Hmong' vs. a typical 'black' family?

Sounds to me that the compensation is fair and if it can be proved that the informant was purposefully deceptive to the police, then he should be charged.

[org.whodat]

Well the newest case will probably be more. And the killing of the kid in oakland is going to cost millions!

[who knows what evil?]

The Vangs used armed resistance to defend themselves against the police, and not only survived, but are being compensated.

...by the taxpayers, unfortunately.

[exit82]

How galling that the police awarded eight medals for this screwed up raid.

No knock raids are out of control, and we have out of control paramilitary police just chomping at the bit to play with their new taxpayer supplied toys.

And for what benefit? If anyone compiled all of the innocent victims of these raids we would see the insidious nature and stupidity of the whole concept.

The Fourth Amendment used to mean something.

BTW, the Hmongs are featured prominently in the new Clint Eastwood film, “Gran Torino”.

[Atlas Sneezed]

The award should be supplemented by a 20% share of the earnings for everyone who organized, authorized, of participated in the raid, for the rest of their lives, including future careers and pensions.

That kind of culpability might make a real difference in this enthusiastically mindless storm trooper behavior. Picking a buck from the pockets of each other resident of the City won’t make much difference.