I'm so sorry for your loss.
Posted on 07/22/2015 7:07:43 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments
...Based on the erroneous information she presented, which also included claims of "heavy traffic in and out of the residence," the judge issued Autry a "no knock" search warrant.
When a SWAT team executing that warrant found the front door blocked, one of the officers tossed a flash-bang grenade inside the residence. Once inside the home, the SWAT team realized a portable playpen had been blocking the door, and the flash-bang grenade had landed where a 19-month-old was sleeping, eventually exploding on the child's pillow.
The toddler spent weeks in a burn unit in a medically induced coma.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
the problem is with the training these police get and the procedures they follow. the people responsible for that are the ones who always escape punishment because none of us ever find out who they are.
I disagree. The problem is that they aren't held personally responsible for their actions. No matter what they do the odds are that at most they will receive a suspension. No responsibility = free to do whatever they want.
Flip the scenario and imagine what would have happened to the householders if they'd thrown a grenade that injured one of the precious police. They'd be buried under the jail if the police didn't kill them outright.
Anyone want to lay odds that they didn't know? I realize that proving this would be impossible unless one of them actually developed a conscience (fat chance) and informed on the others.
Even when they DO get scapegoated and fired, they either get their pension, or move 2 towns over and get re-hired.
Perhaps most disturbing is a report from the Washington Post that “the Drug task force that killed an innocent pastor in 2009 also involved in burned toddler story.”They must have thought they caught the Drug Kingpin. smh ...and to think, I grew up in rural Georgia. TbbtgoG.The Post further reports that the drug task force that conducted the alleged drug buy and investigation of the accused drug dealer, Wanis Thonetheva, who was the target of the raid that severely injured Bounkham Phonesavanh, is the same unit that was responsible for the death of pastor Jonathan Ayers during a raid conducted in 2009. The Post reports:
In September 2009, the young pastor Ayers was ministering to a young woman whom a Georgia drug task force was investigating on drug charges. (She had allegedly sold an undercover officer $50 worth of cocaine.) When task force members saw Ayers alone in the car with the woman, they switched their focus to him. According to Ayers’s lawsuit, the woman was about to be evicted from the motel at which she was staying. Ayers gave her the $23 in his pocket to help cover her rent.
The task force followed Ayers to a convenience store, where he went in to get money from an ATM. When he returned and got into his car they pounced. They pulled up behind him in an unmarked black SUV. Armed agents dressed in street clothes then rushed Ayers’s car. He put his car in reverse and attempted to escape. In the process, he nicked one agent. Another then opened fire, killing him. Ayers told hospital staff was that he thought he was being robbed. His reported last words were, “Who shot me?”
At the time he was killed by police, Ayers’ wife was expecting their first child.
it’s the training and procedures that give them immunity. they always say “i was just following procedure” and that’s what keeps them from getting into trouble. until you change that training and those procedures (which didn’t exist 30+ years ago), this will keep happening. even if you throw one of the cops under the bus to appease public outrage, they’ll just be replaced by another, trained the same way, and who will follow procedures. making the cop liable is not really the solution.
we are living in a police state and i hate it. so don’t mistake my comments for being a blanket defense of police, because it is not. we went from an era of beat cops walking the beat with night sticks to one where even the smallest departments in small town america have machine guns and armored tactical vehicles and SWAT teams being trained on military tactics. this change is what we are all reacting to. this happened without most of us really paying attention until one day we woke up in a country we don’t recognize anymore.
this lady cop - even though indicted - will be found not guilty because i can almost guarantee that she was following approved police procedure by tossing that flashbang into the house. that’s where the problem is. whether she was a good cop or an out of control cop won’t matter. her defense will be “following police procedure and training”. 99 times out of 100 that’s enough to hold a cop unaccountable for their actions.
You have assumed, on no rational basis that someone other than Autry knew the information given to the judge was false. Pathetic.
You know what I assume, based a very rational preponderance of the evidence? That 50% of the time the information is false or fabricated. And that 50% of those times the judges know it too. See, the judges get their salary, pensions and immunity from the same place the cops do.
You don't get that? Pathetic.
Marilyn Mosby is that you?
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
Enforce the Bill of Rights
It’s the LAW !!!
NO KNOCK is unconstitutional.......the judge as well as the cops need to do the Hemp Hop or the Jute jump; their choice
It’s always good to see the cop suckers come out of the woodwork to defend their heroes no matter how heinous the act. Maim a toddler? - not a problem. Murder an old woman? - not a problem. Shoot a black guy in the back and then plant a gun by the body? Hey he must have done something. I guess the taste of boot polish is just addictive to some people. Pathetic.
"Maim a toddler? - not a problem. Murder an old woman? - not a problem. Shoot a black guy in the back and then plant a gun by the body? Hey he must have done something. I guess the taste of boot polish is just addictive to some people. Pathetic."
No one here has ever said that these things are no problem and you effing will know it. You cop haters assume beliefs and intentions that are not expressed. You never change. Why don't you go live with your friends in Ferguson, jackass.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Occupied, you know I’m on your side brah, but you’re being a twee bit unfair to Enterprise....He expressly says he thinks the abuses are a problem....
Just give it a re-think, is all...
You're probably right. Pity the Nazi's didn't come up with that one at the Nuremberg trials. Would have saved them a lot of trouble.
I gave it a rethink and considering that in the first post to me enterprise called me pathetic because I made the logical assumption that cops in the same little einsatzgrup would communicate with each other, I think I’ll stick with my position.
You smoked another one out.
Be the bigger guy!
At 500 pounds, I know I am!
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