Where's the review board? Where's the televised hearing? Where are the pointed and uncomfortable questions being posed to those in charge of this fiasco while they sweat and squirm in their seats? Where's the recommendations for changed procedures to prevent something like this from happening again?
Mistakes like this might just be forgivable. Mistakes like this that we fail to learn from, that we fail to even care to learn from, are not.
Mistakes like this might just be forgivable. Mistakes like this that we fail to learn from, that we fail to even care to learn from, are not.
A mistake is when you hire some fellows who get a charge out of knocking down doors. Ever since the Special Teams were introduced and later when the courts permitted no-knocks there has been a constant abuse of the innocent.
It could happen to any one or all of us...in our homes, offices and cars. There is no rational law enforcement objective served by licensed goons with body armor when applied against a fugitive. If you can't catch him on the street while he is paying off the watch commander then you have no business going into an apartment.
SWAT teams are historically more destructive and less successful than the old fashioned bullhorn and cordon.
Send all of these pumped up jerks over to Afghanistan and let them work out their rage on old Mullas and stringy goats.
Where's the review board? Where's the televised hearing? Where are the pointed and uncomfortable questions being posed to those in charge of this fiasco while they sweat and squirm in their seats? Where's the recommendations for changed procedures to prevent something like this from happening again?
Mistakes like this might just be forgivable. Mistakes like this that we fail to learn from, that we fail to even care to learn from, are not."
Don't worry, its all in the works. Sharpton is beating the drums already and the Lt. is on desk duty and will be facing a department trial.