Posted on 07/06/2013 1:33:37 AM PDT by DariusBane
Edited on 07/06/2013 3:30:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
At 10:45 a.m. defendant Officer Christopher Worley (HPD) contacted plaintiff Anthony Mitchell via his telephone. Worley told plaintiff that police needed to occupy his home in order to gain a "tactical advantage" against the occupant of the neighboring house. Anthony Mitchell told the officer that he did not want to become involved and that he did not want police to enter his residence. Although Worley continued to insist that plaintiff should leave his residence, plaintiff clearly explained that he did not intend to leave his home or to allow police to occupy his home. Worley then ended the phone call.
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just cops being cops
Wow. Just... Wow.
Where are they recruiting cops these days—at the methadone clinics?
This is wrong on so many levels.
Not sure the 3rd applies as they are not fed or military but, certainly the 4th, 1st and 5th have been violated.
I once listened to a professor declare that the Bill Of Rights was an outdated document because of all the antiquated notions within it, one of which was a prohibition against soldiers quartering themselves in your home. Gosh, what chance of that happening is there in this modern America we live in, he claimed. That was just some relic from the days of Redcoats taking over country farms and walking off with livestock, he said.
Now look. Police forces are militarized all over the nation and the FedGov’s alphabet agencies are snooping your IMs, chats, emails, snail mail, cell phone data, landlines, and so on. Pretty soon, drones will be following your every move. You never complained about the other rights being violated, so now they’re justified in steamrolling everything else. You’re not a malcontent are you, comrade citizen?
One of the things that ticks me off the most about know-it-all liberals is that when enough time passes that evidence proves them wrong, they’re never around to face the music. I’m sure the professor I listened to all those years ago is probably either justifying the FedGov’s overreach with some new BS or is convincing himself he never said what he did in the first place. That’s just me presuming the old coot is still alive, because he was kind of old twenty years ago when I heard him say it.
All of these citizen safety measures cracking down on the average American citizen to catch a bunch of foreign ‘terrorists’ that the Feds never seem to lay their hands on before they strike, even if the bastards have been living here on welfare for decades and going to school on public funded scholarships.
Gee, I’m starting to get the picture that the government just isn’t telling us the truth. What are they really up to?
“I hope the law suites ruin the officers and break up their family’s.”
But that is exactly the point, nothing will happen to the scum. They will get couple weeks paid vacation for an investigation, maybe get a commendation for service and go about their business. Absolute worse case scenario one guy will resign and move to next town or county for a raise and promotion.
If the populace does not demand and soon the persons responsible for these stupid actions are not held personally responsible (i.e. jail time, never hired as “po-leeceman” again, personal restitution) it will never stop. They will be embolden to point every cop in every town, county or state is automatically labeled as enemy (the king’s man). We have seen this play out before.....
And the cops were trying to gain a "tactical advantage" against someone accused of "domestic violence?" Not accused of "terrorism" or "murder?"
Regards,
We need to be able to get the cops names and home addresses through FOI requests. Cops, like the rest of the government, should live in abject terror of the citizens.
Henderson, NV can’t be that big a town (population 260,000+) that the people don’t know who the cops are and where they live. Or look them up in the phone book.
What gets me about this is that these are the same people we expect not to enforce gun confiscation. Huh?
And for all the NSA trolls, FU.
...because his IQ was to high...
Just can’t make that one up. Thanks for posting the link.
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I once lived in a neighborhood with a lot of drug dealing. There were monthly community meetings with cops as part of the agenda.
Once they built rapport, whenever they need to watch some spot, they were welcomed.
It makes a difference. If we hadn’t known at least some of them personally, it probably wouldn’t have happened.
Cops, like the rest of the government, should live in abject terror of the citizens.
Exactly, a government that doesn’t fear it’s citizens rapidly becomes a corrupt government.
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