In June of 2006, the SWAT team, and 4 cops shattered my front door, cuffed me, and put me on the floor. They were looking for the former owner of the house (I had foreclosed on it).
The front door had a vertical window six feet long, so they could see me walking slowly to the door. I was wearing shorts, and no shirt, so they could readily see that I was unarmed.
They ransacked the house, leaving my belongings all over the floor in every room.(I didn’t find this out until later, as I was cuffed and left on the cold floor for 20-30 minutes).
When the dolts finally realized that:
1) The former owner wasn’t there.
2) There were no drugs in the house
3) Ran a background check on me, and I was perfect.
they checked my arms for needle tracks, then asked me if I was hiding the former owner.
I could go on and on. They finally left, tails tucked between their legs. The one female cop(observer) told me “ They could see you through the glass....I don’t understand why they broke in”
6 cop cars.... 10 officersto arrest a 5 foot 7, 130 lb. “Barney Fife”
who no longer lived there. Any half-wit could have done a tiny bit of judicious research, and found that out, but that would have deprived them of all their fun!
I should have sued the SOB’s....I just made them pay for the damage.
Really, the way to stop that crap is to make the “searching” (ransacking) officers all return to your home, unarmed and in civilian clothes, to put everything back in order under your supervision. If I were their CO I would suspend them without pay until this was accomplished.
Just ask yourself - if it was the governor’s home, and they had reason enough for a warrant, do you think they would have treated the governor’s belongings the same way?
Even if they KNOW the person is guilty, there is no need to trash a house just to “find evidence”. In fact, such methods most likely destroy more evidence than they discover. They only do it because it displays authority and control over the owner, and because they can.
I'd make 'em pay, too but it wouldn't be money.
Harassment, assault and battery, official oppression... Whatever will stick.
Until they are forced to just stop buying us off via tax payer funded civil claims, and until they suffer personally, this will continue.
got claymores now huh ???
“Come in heavy” is the military way. Overwhelming force. Ask questions later. They learned it in Mosul and Ramadi.