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Botched raid costs Minneapolis $1 million
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | December 9, 2011 | COREY MITCHELL and RANDY FURST

Posted on 12/10/2011 4:26:35 PM PST by bamahead

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To: Grunthor

I also usually defend the police, but not the Minneapolis Police Department. Having lived in the area, I have found them to be the most unprofessional law enforcement organization I have run into. One of their chiefs, William McManus, took the top job at the San Antonio Police Department, and he has turn out to be a total cluster****.
Other police departments in the Twin Cities area are also some real turkeys.


21 posted on 12/10/2011 5:24:58 PM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: bamahead
With an oink oink here and an oink oink there...

22 posted on 12/10/2011 5:29:28 PM PST by I see my hands (The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
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To: ol' hoghead
>"I wonder how many traffic citations will it take to pay the $1,000,000."

Shave about 1/2 sec off the yell0w lights and it should be alright in a year or so.


Prohibition must end. Meth heads deserve help not incarceration.

Seriously they are pitiful. Everybody knows that crap is poison/walking death, yet they are addicted full well knowing the reaper is running them down at full speed.

The least we can do is make it legal, and cheap so they won't murder us in our sleep to get a fix of who knows what.

Take your pick, either the crack heads, or the Po Po will kick down your door. Prohibition has got to go.

23 posted on 12/10/2011 5:40:05 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: bamahead
Russell was arrested on a misdemeanor for having a "disorderly house" but never charged.

As it turned out, the house the police broke into wasn't hers: so that try at framing the victim didn't work too well.

24 posted on 12/10/2011 5:40:29 PM PST by Grut
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To: cableguymn

LOL! Thanks! Now if I could only figure out which prohibited activity they were engaged in. Hmmmm...


25 posted on 12/10/2011 7:08:34 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: rawcatslyentist

Meth heads probably need locked up. Then, they need to be checked out by a dentist before they start choking to death on teeth that fall out during sleep.


26 posted on 12/10/2011 7:14:06 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Jack Hydrazine

All of the above?


27 posted on 12/10/2011 7:15:34 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: muawiyah
Yeah, locked up in an inpatient meth withdrawal or death program.

Let them choose,
more meth=death,
less meth=path to freedom.

A lot of em are gonna croak. It's their choice.

28 posted on 12/10/2011 7:30:53 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: muawiyah

The drug war is over. It was over before it started.

The drug war is simply a money making machine for all involved except the end user of the drugs. You can support it and continue the growth of the police state at the expense of the freedom of the rest of us.

I’ll take the risk of protecting myself and family from meth-heads rather than giving up my personal freedoms for your drug war.


29 posted on 12/10/2011 7:34:18 PM PST by AlmaKing
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To: rawcatslyentist
Has anyone ever encountered a rehabilitated meth addict? I haven't. In fact, I was reviewing my memory in detail and I can't even recall anyone every writing or saying that meth addicts can be rehabilitated.

One of my first-cousin's daughters was murdered by a meth head who then committed suicide. He blew her head off with a shotgun.

I'm not sure meth addicts are human beings.

30 posted on 12/10/2011 7:34:57 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: cableguymn

I’m sure that and the cops could add a few on of their own.


31 posted on 12/10/2011 7:52:53 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Rebelbase
It’s now a crime to have a dirty house?

In this country, just about anything you can imagine is now illegal. We're all criminals due to one law or another. Someday we'll start acting like it.

32 posted on 12/10/2011 8:40:18 PM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
LOL! Thanks! Now if I could only figure out which prohibited activity they were engaged in. Hmmmm...

Probably breathing without a license.

33 posted on 12/10/2011 8:45:01 PM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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34 posted on 12/10/2011 8:52:21 PM PST by MplsSteve (Amy Klobuchar is no moderate. She's Al Franken with a nicer smile.)
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To: Fred Hayek

“...but not the Minneapolis Police Department. Having lived in the area, I have found them to be the most unprofessional law enforcement organization I have run into.”

I live right in the city of Minneapolis - albeit in the city’s relatively crime-free southwest side.

The Minneapolis Police Dept scares me - literally and figuratively. They are thugs with badges.


35 posted on 12/10/2011 8:58:18 PM PST by MplsSteve (Amy Klobuchar is no moderate. She's Al Franken with a nicer smile.)
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To: muawiyah
I probably know thirty or forty.
36 posted on 12/10/2011 9:00:29 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Their umbrella policies aren’t in force if they intentionally break the law. Look it up.


37 posted on 12/10/2011 9:42:17 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: zeugma

You might be right on that since the EPA considers CO2 a pollutant!


38 posted on 12/10/2011 9:47:50 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: MplsSteve

If I remember correctly (guys help me out), wasn’t the lefty Bouza Chief of Police of Minneapolis (and his wife was some kind of other leftist nut (back in the 70’s or 80’s.

He was a Kumbaya type of cop and a total failure. Then he went to California or some other liberal cesspool to make sure they stayed that way.


39 posted on 12/11/2011 12:43:58 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Max, you are 100% correct.

He was police chief from 1980-1989. His wife (Erica) was arrested several times for being involved in protests against Honeywell.

He was an East Coast know-it-all with an equally abrasive personality.


40 posted on 12/11/2011 5:36:25 AM PST by MplsSteve (Amy Klobuchar is no moderate. She's Al Franken with a nicer smile.)
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