Police video shows how drug raid turned deadly [SWAT v. golf club]

sltrib.com ^ | 27 Dec 2010 | Erin Alberty

[smokingfrog]

Shouts break the evening silence.

“Police! Search warrant!”

Officers burst through the door. A man appears across the room. Metal glints from his clasped hands. Shots echo from a police-issue Glock 22. Todd Blair slumps to the floor.

“Five seconds,” said Blair’s mother, Arlean. “In five seconds, he was dead.”

Officers entered Blair’s home Sept. 16 during a drug raid when he stepped into the hall, wielding a golf club, police video shows. Ogden police Sgt. Troy Burnett shot Blair, 45, in the head and chest.

The shooting was deemed legally justified.

[smokingfrog]

Interesting insights D.B.

[GlockThe Vote]

Whatever. Believe what you want. This whole war on drugs is a war on the taxpayer and war on the const.

the only lives on the line are that of the general public subjected to this sadistic mob of psychos we call cops andaw enforcement.

[driftdiver]

“In the head and Chest is all I need to know.”

AKA the Double Tap

[GlockThe Vote]

Please change your screen name. You are not a warrior for freedom, but an apologist for the gestapo.

[driftdiver]

“Not something many meth dealers are going to have.”

Meanwhile our borders remain wide open and tons of the stuff is carted across in trucks driven by mexican drivers.

[behzinlea]

And the police, executing a lawful warrant, have the right to respond to deadly force with deadly force.

And an innocent homeowner has a right to blow the sh*t out of an armed intruder who has just broken down his door. Right?

[familyop]

"You might think you are Rambo, but you are not."

Weird movie characters aside, anything can happen in an armed fight, and vanity is anyone's worst enemy in such scenario. Training is our best friend, and most men don't get much training. Often, those who fantasize that they do are "professional" slobs who watch too much television while relying mainly on popular propaganda to keep them safe from bad boys.

I've been there, done that, found corruption and rolled over on it. Sometimes, the Feds are the best friends that a good cop and his resident neighbors (clean non-cops) can have.

Agreed with exnavy on this one, BTW. Both sides are wrong. No-knock raids are unconstitutional, and the drug problem needs to be dealt with. Men with combat training are more often cleaner, calmer and not so involved in vanities. Those are the men that police agencies should be seeking--not lifelong civilian ragbags "looking for action" (looking for trouble).

The whole issue won't be of much significance after the defaults in local governments anyway. Goodbye hordes of overpaid, wanna-be commandos mis-educated at colleges and universities. Enter a few old-fashioned, "redneck" peace officers with common sense.

[TigersEye]

Actually the police don't have rights they have authority allowed them by the government through statutes.

Citizens have the right of self-defense bestowed on them by their Creator.

[Pox]

I may not be Rambo and I am under no illusion that I resemble such a fictional character in any way, but your snarky comment does not take into account that there are millions of well armed ex-servicemen out there (I happen to be one) who are prepared to defend themselves and are quite capable of killing in the heat of the moment if the circumstances dictate.

You think you have a clue what you're talking about. I believe you need to think a little harder about your comment.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Not any different that what the Nazis, the Stasi, or other countries have done in the past now in the present.

[freedomwarrior998]

One person vs 400 others = Rambo. It doesn’t happen. That was the comment. The idea that a person with a Glock is going to take out a SWAT team is nothing but fantasy internet bluster. The idea of anyone taking out an entire trained SWAT team who will have the element of surprise, superior firepower and numbers on their side is nothing short of laughable.

However, if you aren’t slinging dope, you shouldn’t have to engage in such flights of fantasy.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Both sides are wrong on this one.”

But three Lefts would make it right! Right?...ummmm...right? Oh, never mind!

[TigersEye]

However, if you aren’t slinging dope, you shouldn’t have to engage in such flights of fantasy.

Cold comfort for the dozens of people who have been shot in botched SWAT raids.

[Pox]

I replied to your post # 18, which was directed as a reply to post #6, which was not the 400 others post, so you are mistaken with your response, and I stand by my post.

[AppyPappy]

“If the pigs are going to break down my door, they better send 401 cops.”

Wouldn’t it be funny to see their children at their daddy’s funeral? But I guess you’ll be in prison awaiting execution.

[Lurker]

Here’s hoping someone you love is the victim of a ‘legally justified’ shooting.

Best,

L

[Leisler]

Almost without exception all European police forces obeyed and participated in German Nazi round up of their own citizens. In Germany the first Nazi concentration camp was set up and run by the Berlin Chief of Police.

I am unaware, ever, of any organized Police protest, ever, against any good, bad or indifferent law. If the ink, smeared on wood pulp is describe as ‘law’ and orders people into camps, ditches whatever, the police as an institution will obey, even though in fact they are but fellow citizens with powers derived from their fellow citizens.

[OneWingedShark]

Were the “white crystals” perhaps sodium-bicarbonate?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Did you watch the video, they executed that guy.

I wonder if he had children?

[TigersEye]

Eff ‘em and their daddies too.