[Psalm_2]

the America we are living in has become a police state.

[rabscuttle385]

Donut watch ping!

[fini]

How do these guys get search warrants? Though I hate the idea that taxpayers should pay for police mistakes, I do think that unless they get sued, they will continue.

[tpmintx]

the America we are living in has become a police state.

...and the so-called "war on drugs" gives them every opportunity.

[fireman15]

12 years ago our home was raided by the King County SWAT Team. They said it was because a person convicted of having sex with an underage girl had attempted to contact her when he was released. Apparently he had given the authorities the phone number that our house had had several years before we moved in.

I was at work at the time. They were just getting ready to use a battering ram on our front door when my wife was able to hobble down to it. Her leg was in a cast at the time. They held her at gun point while they ran all around the house with their assault rifles out in full swat gear and made a mess. My wife was very worried they were going to shoot our wiener dogs.

I have never understood how they got a search warrant on such skimpy and faulty information. We didn't get any kind of apology.

[Ken H]

The first thing I thought was they were terrorists who want to kill me because I served in Iraq."

Sorry this happened to you, Mr. Tossa.

You put yourself on the line for our freedom, only to be pissed on by low-life drug warriors.

[onona]

Problem 1: He Lives in Detroit

Problem 2: He opened the door

[Terry Mross]

Hey, at least the dog survived. Apparently they were up on their target practice.

[TigersEye]

...the DEA was executing a search warrant for Tossa’s landlord’s son, who apparently uses Tossa’s one-story house’s address for mailing.

Barney Fife could do better pre-op intel than that. Heck! Floyd the barber could do better than that.

[The KG9 Kid]

"Whoops... Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING

Click the link to be added to the "Whoops. Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING list.

[XHogPilot]

bump

[dennisw]

No dogs were shot so I’m OK with this. Just one of life’s little speed bumps...the price we pay to live in a drug free society

[qaz123]

Just like private businesses, this will not stop until they’re held accountable both civilly and criminally. SWAT teams are needed and the training is warranted and required. However, their overuse is absolutely ridiculous and as is the case in Arizona and the Pima County SO, people will die for no reason. There are much better and more efficient ways for police to operate, the last of which should be a military style entry into someones home. Especially the wrong one.

[Truth29]

Never open the door if you don’t know who is on the other side. If they don’t acceptably identify themselves and start breaking in the door, it is decision time.

[Berlin_Freeper]

This guy never noticed someone else using the home he rents as a mailing address and put an end to it?

Then whines when it causes him trouble. Stupid ass.

[JoeFromSidney]

If someone's banging on the door and you don't know who it is, don't open the door. Call the cops. Tell the dispatcher it's not anyone you know, and you're afraid criminals or terrorists are attacking. Maybe they'll manage to put 2 and 2 together.

[equaviator]

Not really a “hate crime” but it was stupid enough to raise a few unibrows, no?

[Nate505]

Hey now, we don’t want to require the idiots in the DEA to do research, do we?

That might interfere with their door kickin’ dog shootin’ good time deal they got a goin’ on.

[gaijin]

The boy in the video is only 7 years old. The dog the entry team shoots is a CORGI —you can hear him crying before dying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGB1fhx0raM