Posted on 02/04/2014 10:43:02 AM PST by Nachum
Members of a Des Moines family say they were terrorized in their own home by Ankeny police.
Sally Prince is afraid to stay in her own home. “I’ve been so traumatized. I don’t sleep at night,” Prince says.
On Thursday, Ankeny police executed a search warrant looking for someone they suspected of using stolen credit cards to buy clothes and electronics.
The whole search was caught on surveillance video.
Ankeny police tell us they knocked first, but the video shows one officer pounding on the side of the house and seconds later, officers use a battering ram to force their way in.
The video also shows an officer destroying a security camera outside the home.
Two people in the house were arrested on unrelated charges, and the family says none of the items listed on the warrant were found.
Prince’s son, Justin Ross, was in the bathroom when police burst in, and he was carrying a gun that he has the legal right to carry. “I stood up, I drew my weapon, I started to get myself together to get out the door, I heard someone in the main room say police. I re-holstered my weapon sat back down and put my hands in my lap,” Ross recalls.
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No, the kid with a gun went to the bathroom. Duh!
I just read it.
Do you have any information regarding the identities of any or all of specific individual traitors within the department of state who were responsible for writing that piece of unconstitutional garbage?
As a general rule, neither do I.
However, when I am carrying, removing my holster from my belt is not always (or even often) the first thing I do upon arriving home.
Exactly. Every situation is different. Just because you don't feel the need to walk around the house armed doesn't mean every feels the same way.
Besides, who are you to question how someone else lives if they aren't breaking any laws or harming anyone?
I think there may be more to the story.
Did they not have people with warrants in their house??? Kind of leads me to believe those folks are a bit shady.
Not defending the cops so much, but I don’t believe the people in that house are lily white either. As I said, more to the story here.
Go...
In the 80's, I had those kinds of warrants for years from PA and FL. Texas had no reciprocity, and eff them if they thought I would pay $75 or $90 a pop.
Bodily functions do not cease just because you are carrying personal armaments.
When carrying, I while sometimes unholster my firearm and place it on a counter/toilet tank top/etc while ‘doing my business’ to prevent the weight of the firearm from dragging on my pants and potentially making a mess...
And yes, “Every Day Carry” means every day you have it on. It becomes habitual to holster up and just leave it there. If this means taking out the garbage, making dinner, or playing frisbee in the yard with the kids while armed... Then so be it.
He is LUCKY to be alive.
This insanity will continue, expand and become ever more
pervasive if not stopped. And the ONLY way it’s going to
stop is with the shedding of blood. If EVERY time a raid
costs the thugs a life or two it won’t be long before this
stops. And if the petty politicians who hold the puppet
strings of the judges that allow this illegality and the
animals in blue who perpetrate it started showing up at
dawn swinging in the breeze it would stop so fast it would
leave skid marks.
Follow-up RE State Dept Publication 7277.
I found this site:
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v07/comp1
Some of the documents make for interesting reading.
I should have known Dean Rusk was involved in it.
“Outside of the fact that it was willful destruction of private property, it really makes the officer look bad - as if he destroyed the camera in order to cover up their bad behavior.”
That is exactly what he was doing, covering bad behavior. I’ve seen video more than once with cops turning it off, turning a camera, etc.
Cops will spout out how they don’t mind cameras. Bull, they are scared silly by cameras.
“Ankeny police tell us they knocked first, but the video shows one officer pounding on the side of the house and seconds later, officers use a battering ram to force their way in. “
The camera contradicted their lies. How many times do cops claim to have knocked and announced, and they didn’t?
I’’m wondering why the police searched everywhere but the bathroom?
“more to the story....”
Basing that on something? Making it up to justify the actions? Or just being sarcastic to the usual justifications for bad cop behavior?
Remember that nothing they were there for was found. Nor would it be first. I saw an article a couple years back about a town that swated everything, with only a 25% arrest rate and under 10% conviction rate. That’s a lot of mistakes for such a violent method of LE.
There was one a few months ago where they raided a suspected meth lab. Their intel was wrong, no meth lab. But the pigs did manage to burn a small girl with their flashbang on the way in.
Col. Klink?
It would be much quieter to simply always carry a small spray can of black paint to spray over the camera. Obviously these LEO are not properly prepared.
I hear dat! I was reading the paper, while in the position, and the cat barges in, pushing the door wide open. He then turns around and leaves! Don’t tell me about feeling vulnerable!!
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