“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Posted on 01/13/2024 3:28:34 PM PST by CFW
Courtney Price was at home on Wednesday taking care of her one-year-old son, Waylon, when they experienced a terrifying and traumatic altercation with local law enforcement. What should have been an ordinary day took a turn for the worse when SWAT officers broke into the home, searching for a suspect.
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Price explained that the officers kept her outside for 35 to 45 minutes while her son “was laying in his swing, covered in glass, covered in smoke, choking, gasping for air.”
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Upon arriving at the hospital, she was told that her son had pneumonia but did not believe it was related to the incident. But after Waylon was taken home, his situation deteriorated. She said:
That night, my son quit breathing, and I was able to…bring him back up. I kept him at home, and then, early morning, he quit breathing again. I had him maxed out on oxygen, maxed out on everything I had at home, and he was still [declining] into the low 80s. So we called 911 again and had an ambulance come.
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Law enforcement had been looking for a 14-year-old black suspect ....:
They had been to the house five times within the last year looking for this little boy, and we’ve told them every time that he doesn’t live here. He hasn’t lived here in two years now. It was the previous residents before us. The little boy is black, and my uncle (Marlon) is also black. The rest of us are all white. He pointed at my uncle’s picture on the wall and said, ‘Are you sure this isn’t your family, the little boy?’ I said, ‘Yes, I’m positive. I’ve never seen him before in my life.’
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RedState needs a better headline editor and cops need to double-check their information before busting down doorways and throwing smoke bombs into homes. Why wasn't the computer info updated on one of the previous 5 visits to the house?
Unionized government employees.
Good points. The art of editing has died out. We are left with half truths and absurd errors.
In this caseLEO definitely F’d up and need to be held responsible. Not necessarily the folks doing the raid but the I tell azzholes that told them where to hit
Total breakdown in intelligence.
Did that SWAT team have its budget cut or “defunded?”
Years back, San Jose PD dropped a flashbang in a baby’s crib.
Oopsie...
Well to be fair, the baby refused all orders to “GET ON THE GROUND. GET ON THE F-G GROUND NOW!!”
That was Intel azzholes... Spell check sucks.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Don’t they ever knock on the door any longer?
We are in utter agreement. They are irresponsible.
Old saying: Back the blue until it happens to you.
New saying: Back the blue until they throw a flashbang grenade at you.
Is that a bit unfair? Maybe. But something is seriously wrong with policing in this country. Liberals have always complained about that. But now conservatives are complaining, too. That says something.
Its worth a lawsuit if they kept coming to the same address.
the officer who asked for the search warrant and the officer who ok'd the swat team looking for " a boy" should also be investigated and reprimanded.
Oath-breakers.
Two political parties both glorify government employees one party loves the teachers and social workers and has a D and the other loves the soldiers and the cops and has an R.
The moral of this story is that government has gotten too big and too mighty, too self-righteous and too powerful.
And that the main political parties are based on support from different factions of Big Government.
Outlaw no-knock warrants in accordance with the Constitution.
Eliminate Qualified Immunity for police.
Publicly hang the Nazis who did this.
“Did that SWAT team have its budget cut or “defunded?”
They have shown they should be eliminated entirely.
Perhaps the person who is supposed to change addresses for things like that is also responsible for updating voter registration lists as well.
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“But something is seriously wrong with policing in this country.”
AT LEAST twice ads many cops as needed, enforcing at least twice as many laws as needed.
Defund. De-scope.
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