Posted on 09/16/2016 11:31:43 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
The incident happened on Tuesday at Coronado Court in the town of Clifton in Mesa County.
Police said they thought they were targeting a methamphetamine operation and instead forcefully entered a couple’s condo with five children inside.
Mesa County and Grand Junction SWAT members surrounded the condo and broke down the front door and destroyed windows as they breached the house.
(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...
Well, it sounds like the locals have already decided they will fix it, before they are sued.
They’re indoctrinating people to accept this as good in the police state that they want to impose upon us.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
One of those wacky SF authors, probably.
If this happened to me I'd very likely be dead, because I'm always armed after dark and frequently sitting in the living room tinkering with one firearm or another. And if somebody breaks in the door without warning they're going to look down a barrel, and some trigger-happy SWAT guy is going to tell the press later that the homeowner behaved in an aggressive manner. You don't win that one because you're dead.
People will make mistakes, but this is something that requires serious corrective action.
At the top in the planning phase. Can be a learning experience, fortunate it was not fatal for anyone.
That some piece of SF work there. I believe I read that work on another thread here today. There were other articles recent police actions seemed to violate as well.
If it’s not a hostage situation, serve a warrant by hand.
Enough home invaders have glommed onto yelling “Police!” that anybody can say “I was in fear for my life” and open up at will.
Bust down an innocent American’s door, by mistake or not, prepare to get shot in the face. Cop or home invader.
Don’t like it? Whine up your chain of command.
Repairs? Can they repair the terror and trauma?
How do you repair that?
It is always excused by pointing at how horrible the crime embroiled in addiction to forbidden drugs is. So we broke a few eggs to make that omelet, they say. It’s worth many more broken eggs, even though we hardly do anything to help those eggs, they say.
It used to be blame the brewing; now it is blame the powder. None of which can intoxicate without the undertaking of a voluntary act. The band-aids are failing to bring healing to spiritual cancers.
Wasn’t the story that much more than “bunkers” burned?
“Burn the bunker” was also the excuse in Waco, IIRC.
The current legal regime is such that a lawsuit must be brought.
At any rate it seems a bad wart on a system that is supposedly based on Judeo-Christian tradition, where a high priority was to try to make all victims whole.
sue the living fuch out of them.
confiscate their pensions and wages.
the more “accidents” like this the more they desensitize the public to accept this as normal sh1t happenings, and gives their apologists more time to defend them.
It is leaving a lasting dirty stain on our culture.
But there are a lot of other recent sources for such water marks.
Acceptance of evil is a horrible lasting infection in our nation.
It is gross incompetence. They should all be fired!! My GOD— you cant find the right damned house before you bust things up? There is absolutely no excuse!! Heads roll in my world. Get out of here!!
They blew up the whole block, including the homes of innocent people who had to put up with these nuts. This was in effect, a preview of Waco.
Stop no-knock raids.
Yes, without a court order and enormous evidence.
Surround the house and tell them to come out.
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