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Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House
ABC News ^ | September 25, 2012 | Vicki Brown

Posted on 09/25/2012 9:04:13 AM PDT by AAABEST

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To: AAABEST

AAA I’m in Knoxville, TN and it doesn’t show up in our local newspaper on line under state news. That and they state it happened Wednesday Night says it’s older news.. How old? I’m not sure either.


81 posted on 09/25/2012 12:24:16 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Moonman62
Our house was raided by the King County Swat Team shortly after we moved in 14 years ago. They shook my wife and our dogs up pretty badly and made a big mess. She was worried they were going to shoot our dogs. One of them held her against the wall while the others ran around the house, in their swat team outfits, guns drawn ready to shoot anyone who looked like they were a threat

Fortunately, my wife was home alone and we hadn't amassed the arsenal that we have accumulated at this time. I never did get any kind of reasonable explanation from the Sheriff's department. I certainly am not one of the "I hate the cops crowd" as I work with the cops on a daily basis. But occasionally sloppy work does get them into trouble.

82 posted on 09/25/2012 12:26:49 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: AAABEST

i DO NOT accept this “a perosn is dead because were at the wrong house” excuse, as though if they had been at the “right house” it would have been OK to kill THAT person!

These cops need to go to the rope!


83 posted on 09/25/2012 12:28:35 PM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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To: fireman15
I certainly am not one of the "I hate the cops crowd" as I work with the cops on a daily basis.

No you're not but posting a 12 year old article as news is sneaky.

84 posted on 09/25/2012 12:33:42 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
The article linked ABC news does not have the date on it. I didn't realize it was an old story myself till i realized today is Tuesday shooting was on a Wednesday night. Then I checked state news online in my local paper.

That said the officers and chief should have been fired. There is no excuse for raiduing a Wrong House. None whatsoever. A trucker screws up and someone dies he never drives a rig he's fired and no one will hire him again. A cop screws up unlawfully entering someones house and someone dies but it's OK?

85 posted on 09/25/2012 12:43:48 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Moonman62
No you're not but posting a 12 year old article as news is sneaky.

I agree with you completely; it is amazing to me how much of a reaction old and already resolved news on something like this can create.

86 posted on 09/25/2012 1:14:40 PM PDT by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: Wiser now

“The homeowner fired at the police first with a sawed off shotgun. What were the police supposed to do?”

Not raid the wrong house.

They deserved to die, not the innocent man who was defending his home.


87 posted on 09/25/2012 1:14:52 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (I will never vote for Romney. Ever.)
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To: AAABEST

Folks, for the love of Pete, start thinking about ending the war on drugs. Demand it, let it be sold at Walgreens or given away free at clinics, but enough of this. These raids won’t stop as long as the American people are insistent on continuing the war on drugs. The dogs are not going to stop being shot, the cars being searched, etc.

I fought the WOD everyday, full time, for five years. It cannot be won the way it is being prosecuted. It is helping greatly to destroy the nation and it has been going full steam since 1972 with no end in sight.

Again, I implore to you, individually and collectively, to consider the complete legalization, regulation, distribution, and possible taxation of what are considered illicit narcotics commonly abused by citizens.


88 posted on 09/25/2012 1:42:29 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: goodolemr
No settlement can change the fact that a man is dead and a women is now a widow.

The article didn't mention he had more than one wife. That means that just one woman is a widow, not multiple women.

Am I missing something? You clearly stated that, "a women is now a widow."

89 posted on 09/25/2012 1:48:55 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: Bon mots
Good one! Here's another:


90 posted on 09/25/2012 1:55:49 PM PDT by goron (Let's get this done!)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

just a typo. It was earily when I replied to the thread.


91 posted on 09/25/2012 3:51:09 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: AAABEST

RIP.


92 posted on 09/25/2012 4:52:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

My brother is a retired police officer. They are permiitted to fire back when fired upon. They were given the wrong address, and by all accounts they did identify themselves.
No, they did not deserve to die. The homeowner fired first, without determining whether or not he was facing a real threat.


93 posted on 09/25/2012 4:57:17 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: jessduntno

Same as with the other walking talking crap that stumbles across my path — I hear the noise you make, but I don’t believe it.


94 posted on 09/25/2012 5:46:04 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: Nervous Tick

“Same as with the other walking talking crap that stumbles across my path — I hear the noise you make, but I don’t believe it.”

I’ve heard that about psychotics. Sad. I didn’t realize. God bless you, you poor thing.


95 posted on 09/25/2012 5:47:44 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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To: Wiser now

>> No, they did not deserve to die.

Here in Texas, if you kill a cop wrongfully kicking your door down, the law considers that they DO deserve to die.

I don’t do drugs and I don’t commit crimes. I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is no reason for the police to swat me. If they kick down MY door and I am at all able to defend myself against them, they WILL die. And as a Texas citizen I’ll be justified and exonerated.

Anyway, the idea that these cops somehow were not responsible for double checking their information — HOWEVER they obtained it — is asinine. Would you have me believe that they were just handed a written order to capture or kill some random homeowner and they knew NOTHING of the supposed perp, or the supposed crime, or the informant, or the court order, etc?

Bullshit.


96 posted on 09/25/2012 5:52:25 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: jessduntno

The steroids make that tiny little brain of yours overactive, don’t they?

Of course I already knew that you just “make stuff up” and feel justified somehow.

Carry on.


97 posted on 09/25/2012 5:54:23 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
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To: Nervous Tick

“Carry on.”

Sir!


98 posted on 09/25/2012 6:09:25 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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To: Nervous Tick

That is the way the story reads. And no, I am not aware that police officers are in the habit of second guessing their assignments or the addresses they are given.


99 posted on 09/25/2012 6:45:58 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Persevero
the solution is not to have junkies, acid freaks and meth heads running things.

Do alkies run things now, since their drug is legal?

100 posted on 09/25/2012 9:09:59 PM PDT by JustSayNoToNannies (A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
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