Prosecutor drops charges in shooting of 4 officers

SunSpot.net ^ | Jan 07,03 | Allison Klein and Del Quentin Wilber

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[Squantos]

1911A1's & Rottweilers at 10 paces ........BTTT !

[Travis McGee]

At 2:30 am a dark van, all of its lights out, slid up and paused in front of Mrs. Mendoza’s house almost beyond his sight and a half dozen or more dark figures poured out and scurried low across into his yard and up to his front door where they sank down to hide out of sight below his bushes, two of the men continued across his yard to a position below his bedroom window, no more than twenty feet from Ben’s garage lookout post.

That old intense rush came back over him, flowing through him stronger than any drug, that thirty year old thrill of waiting motionless in ambush, to be rewarded by the appearance of the unsuspecting enemy in the kill zone…

They wouldn’t wait now; the snipers and rear security team would already be in position. Ben knew what was coming next, he was ready, he was already wearing his foam earplugs.

He picked up and held in each hand a small green electricity generating “clacker” the size of a computer mouse, each was attached to a thin green wire. They originally came packed with claymore mines, the mines were long gone but the clackers remained.

--------------------------------------------------------- The FBI SWAT team members crouched on the low porch on each side of the front door and looked away, ready for their small breaching charges to blow it inward. A pair of SWAT team members outside the master bedroom was going to initiate the assault by breaking and raking his window with a long handled sledge hammer, and then immediately tossing in two def-tek flash bang grenades with two second delay fuses. The front door breaching charges would be fired the instant that they heard the window shatter, and they would be on top of their man in less than five seconds. They knew just how long it would take, because they had already run through the precise maneuver a dozen times today in full assault gear, on a mockup house with moveable walls inside a darkened hanger on their base at Quantico. They trained and trained and trained, but arresting a violent felon never became routine, and now their adrenaline was surging as it always did.

Each crouching man held his MP-5 with its integral sound suppressor and barrel mounted gun light in front of him, their stocks tucked into their shoulders. Their gloved right index fingers all rested just outside their trigger guards, their right thumbs rested lightly on their safety switches. Their left thumbs were all on the rubber pressure switches wired to the high intensity lights mounted under the gun barrels. One long curved magazine of ten millimeter frangible rounds was in the well of each of their sound suppressed MP-5s, another thirty round magazine was strapped alongside it for a faster first reload, even more magazines were in the pouches of their tactical vests. In each left ear a tiny radio speaker kept them synchronized to the plan as they counted down to one.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Mitchell stood peering out between the curtains of the garage window, his hands holding the twin claymore mine clackers firmly, waiting for the assault team to move first, waiting for them to initiate the violence. He saw one of the men below his bedroom window stand tall, leaning over his hedges with a sledge hammer held back over his head, his partner stood up behind him. The long hammer came down through his window, exploding it, and then was raked in a swift circle clearing the screen and the glass shards away as the second man tossed in two small cylinders, flash bang grenades. At the moment that the glass shattered there was a flash of light and a roaring boom from his front porch, and the assault team rose up and went flooding inside.

Ben squeezed both hinged clackers hard and twin electrical charges shot down the thin green wires at the speed of light to the military blasting caps at the other ends.

From my novel Enemies Foreign And Domestic.Scroll to the second half of the chapter to see what happens.

[Travis McGee]

Did you read that chapter yet? The one at reply 43.

[Squantos]

Great story line.....what was the chapter number ? Do I have that one ??

[Cogadh na Sith]

Wow, what an incredible story, no?

The Clash

The Guns of Brixton
(Paul Simonon)

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton

For my part, I've got three 70# chow-chows, an FN-FAL and my Barry Mowry custom .45 at arms reach at all times--and a gun safe in the corner with a door that opens away from the wall so's I can go into safe-door defilade...

[Travis McGee]

You can read them all from 1 to 26 plus "The Raid" and "The Checkpoint on the website by clicking that ^ link. I've spent my book writing time the last 2 weeks working with Jeff Head on the EFAD site, and now I am ready to start cranking out new chapters again. I should have chapter 27 ready tonight or tomorrow.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Then all these guys cookin 'caine in the basement can do whatever they want, selling the drugs to your kids, maybe raping your women, and probably killing your parents.

Hey, If he could smoke 4 cops on a botched 'no-knock', I don't think he has to worry about 'guys cookin 'caine in the basement'....

If you are a cop, you are here to safeguard my rights. I'll handle the 'guys cookin caine in the basement' if you'll handle protecting my rights.

[Squantos]

You know Barry ?!?!?! I have a 1911 he built for me when I was living in Albuquerque. He still had IWI on Eubank. One of my most reliable rigs !! Small World !!

[Jhoffa_]

And just when I begin to lose hope..

amen.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Wow! Now, let's see the cops get prosecuted for unlawful entry. THAT(!) would make my day, as I am sure this decision made his. I am actually SHOCKED that someone would not prosecute a cop shooting. I guess there is at least one normal human.

[Cogadh na Sith]

I have a 1911 he built for me when I was living in Albuquerque. He still had IWI on Eubank. One of my most reliable rigs !! Small World !!

Hah! I thought you might--being in ABQ and being a firearms aficionado and all....

Mine is a real 'carry gun'--blued Colt export slide and an Auto Ordinance satin nickle lower--low profile sights and rounded edges for no snagging. Stippled and piece fit by Bill Saxon here. I'll trust my life to that gun. Got it sitting right here next to my mug of homebrewed Scottish ale. FN-FAL (L1A1 actually) is in the corner and chows asleep at my feet...

[Travis McGee]

I'm shocked too. This guy had better leave the state though, "bad things" are going to happen to him if he sticks around.

[Squantos]

Hope yer night is warm and safe friend.....that pup and a fine 1911A1 should make life easy. Is that FN a metric or inch model ? I have been itching to add one to my arsenal of democracy for some time now. Any suggestions as to where to start looking ?? and what type SAE er metric per se ?:o)

[Cogadh na Sith]

Inch model--I prefer them. It is a new Century Arms (Yeah, I know they had a bad rep, but as of late 2001, they were casting their own upper recievers instead of refitting Imbels to mate with the inch lowers.) Century Arms deserves a new look for that. My gunsmith steered me right... (see freep mail)

For the best of the best American FN's, you cannot go wrong with DSA--expect to pay 1200 bucks, but it is worth it...

[Leisler]

I”d prefer that. Anyone who did anything you say would be swinging from a rope. I like the idea of Judges and lawyers being far away. I, and those like me, don't need cops, lawyers, defense lawyers, appeals lawyers, law clerks, courthouse clerks, judges, appeals judges, bailiffs.....and all the tax sucking parasites of the criminal justice system.

[Leisler]

Shameless plug bump!

Living on a boat. Sailing around. Fishing.

You bastard.

[FreedomPoster]

>>Come to think of it, wouldn't a "no knock" raid be against the fourth amendment?

Apparently you don't realize that the Constitution is a "living" document.

I bet you also don't realize that the definition of "is" varies.< /sarcasm>

[FreedomPoster]

>>1. I'm surprised a judge in Maryland issued a warrant based on a single anonymous tip - that's terrifying. Think about it. Have you made anyone angry today?

A clueful populace would impeach/remove that guy posthaste.

I doubt it happens.

[FreedomPoster]

Cool! I've posted those lyrics here several times in the past.

Too bad about Joe.