Posted on 02/22/2003 9:57:00 AM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
A police SWAT team member shot a man in the foot yesterday as Louisville Metro Police officers tried to serve a search warrant at an apartment complex on Six Mile Lane.
The unnamed officer fired when a pit bull dog ''raised up and lunged at him,'' said Officer Dwight Mitchell, a metro police spokesman.
The bullet hit a man who was visiting the apartment; the man had kicked out his leg toward the dog just as the officer fired, Mitchell said.
The wounded man's name was not available last night.
The dog was not hurt.
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Not at all. They are fishing. In most searches along the interstate nothing is found, even when they take money and cars no charges are filed. It is what happens when cops can fund their own activity with what they can get their hands on.
When you lose budgetary oversight and permit seizures and forfeitures without conviction you end up with cops going after money instead of criminals. More "unintended consequences" of stupid laws.
I said "public crucifixions", and I meant it, dammit ;)
Seriously, though, if they really ginned up a warrant, either by faking one themselves or by misrepresenting to the judge, then anything less than criminal charges is a whitewash, plain and simple...
I also recall reading that most police departments won't hire anyone who scores too highly on the entrance exams. Seriously. They determined that those type of people are more likely to create problems, question stupid orders, etc.
Yeh, I can see it now, a guy blindly charging a police officer, holding a box cutter with cuffed hands. Maybe he had on those "See behind you glasses" they used to sell in the back of comic books.
Cops can make some of the most bizarre claims.
I have heard that too. In fact, there was an article posted about it maybe a year ago or so.
ROFL...LOL.. really.
Almost like a scene from "Brazil", or a MP skit.
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