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Police video shows how drug raid turned deadly [SWAT v. golf club]
sltrib.com ^ | 27 Dec 2010 | Erin Alberty

Posted on 12/30/2010 4:19:27 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; drugwar; jbts; jbtsnoknockraids; saltlake; tonyblairslc; wod
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To: smokingfrog

It always is. The wonder is that they did not find any number of guns on him. They wold have planted them on him,but, still they would have found them.


61 posted on 12/30/2010 6:19:38 PM PST by sport
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To: sport

The apologists for the police state make me sick.


62 posted on 12/30/2010 6:33:37 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: AppyPappy

Are we supposed to feel bad about that? If someone puts themselves in that situation to where they are no knocking peoples homes for minor drug offenses and they get capped themsves - that’s life or death for that matter.

I used to be far mpre sympathetic to law enforcement than I am now.


63 posted on 12/30/2010 6:36:45 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: smokingfrog

Bookmark


64 posted on 12/30/2010 6:38:27 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
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To: smokingfrog

Why don’t they just toss in a couple of hand grenades, then after the explosion go in and spray everything down good with MP5s? They murdered that man.


65 posted on 12/30/2010 6:41:05 PM PST by sport
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To: Leisler
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.

Wrong. Tens of Thousands of Law Enforcement Officers use their discretion each and every day in refusing to enforce absurd laws. I know officers who in their decades of service not once wrote a seat-belt ticket, because they believed that seat-belt laws were absurd and nonsensical. I know others who refuse to enforce pro-arrest policies at domestics. There are very few mandatory arrest provisions in law, very few. In all the others, individual officers can utilize their discretion on whether to charge an offense or not.

What happens with the constant reductio-ad-hitlerum that is prevalent among libertines, is chasing good people out of the police forces, people who will exercise their discretion in a good way. If good people won't join the police forces, they will be replaced by people who shouldn't be there. That's exactly what the Communists have wanted since the 1950s.

66 posted on 12/30/2010 6:47:43 PM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: freedomwarrior998
Oh what a bunch of bullshit you spout-GOOD cops don't need to bust down doors at 3 am unannounced and primed to shoot ,all for the sake of a few ounces of some alleged drug.

But BAD,vicious killers just love kicking in doors ,and shooting dogs and residents.

A pox on you and your dirty cops.

67 posted on 12/30/2010 6:48:15 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: behzinlea

freedomwarrior998 is a well known police bootlicker. Trying to reason with him is futile as he ALWAYS takes the cops side. Keep reading his posts and you will understand. He may call himself a conservative, but he is NOT your friend. In fact, cops are NOT your friend-PERIOD!


68 posted on 12/30/2010 6:48:57 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Me too.


69 posted on 12/30/2010 6:53:21 PM PST by sport
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To: OneWingedShark

Heck, I have little cloth bags of white crystals;it is some kind of chemical that sucks up the moisture inside enclosed ,delicate electronic and optical instruments .


70 posted on 12/30/2010 6:53:53 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: freedomwarrior998

Badge Bunny.


71 posted on 12/30/2010 6:57:08 PM PST by Eaker (In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein)
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To: packrat35

If you think that the cops are your friends, ask the guy who got 7 years in NJ.


72 posted on 12/30/2010 6:57:39 PM PST by sport
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To: packrat35

I have been subjected to numerous “stop and fish” including the DUI checkpoints ,because I currently work late into the evenings.!2 or 15 cops blocking a four lane roadway or an hour or two,questioning maybe a hundred drivers and lucky if they find ONE drunk!


73 posted on 12/30/2010 6:58:25 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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To: GlockThe Vote
The apologists for the police state make me sick.

You bet...There is always someone out here that thinks it's perfectly OK to shoot someone to death who are clearly not a threat to a dozen people carrying multiple weapons.

They could have easily tased or pepper sprayed this guy....

Unfortunately, many law enforcement agencies today are completely out of control, moving from traditional local police to a para-military us VS them mentality..

I wonder if they realize they only have a bit of power because the people, at this point, have allowed them to.

74 posted on 12/30/2010 6:59:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
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To: Eaker

I wish I had thought of that one.


75 posted on 12/30/2010 7:01:25 PM PST by sport
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To: sport

Read again. I said NOT your friend.


76 posted on 12/30/2010 7:04:40 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: hoosierham

I see you swallowed the Communist lie. Stalin would be proud of you.


77 posted on 12/30/2010 7:05:06 PM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: Eaker

Socialist.


78 posted on 12/30/2010 7:05:37 PM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: freedomwarrior998

Still spouting that Communist bullshit lie. Read my tagline cause it describes you and your ilk.


79 posted on 12/30/2010 7:06:31 PM PST by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: freedomwarrior998

freedom warrior? LOL!

jackboot simpleton


80 posted on 12/30/2010 7:08:30 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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