Posted on 11/10/2004 12:48:29 AM PST by esryle
DALLAS -- Six men, dressed in black fatigues with the word "Police" stenciled on the backs of the shirts, stormed a house in Southeast Dallas Tuesday morning at about 10:30, according to police. The men reportedly were armed with automatic weapons, broke windows and terrorized the family living in the 9400 block of Bermuda Road.
Witnesses said the men spoke English and Spanish. They shouted, "Policia," or police, and manhandled the family's patriarch. Two of the men used weapons to assault Maria Lopez (pictured, left), who tried to protect her 3-week-old infant.
"Well, the female, she was pretty much assaulted with a gun," Officer Y.M. Abrom said. "With one of the AK-47s. She was pistol-whipped to the face."
The men reportedly were looking for marijuana at the house, which also serves as a welding business. They failed to find any drugs at the location, and moved on to a vacant house on the same street.
There, they allegedly accosted five construction workers. The contractors were forced to the ground, and the robbers took the workers' wallets. The suspects fled in two vehicles.
Lopez received stitches at an area hospital.
Investigators called the suspects "take-over bandit copycats," referring to a recent case involving robbers armed with automatic weapons who stormed businesses.
Most excellente! Man, there is no end to the ways we are getting screwed here.
We must embrace the infusion of cultural diversity.
That's an order.
Bingo.
Shush. If you notice it, you're suspect.
If you mention it, you're an intolerant bigoted xenophobic racist.
Welcome to Sao Paulo, USA.
Juarez north of the border.
TJ in the USA.
Galindo received five death sentences from the panel -- one for each person killed -- as well as 50 years in prison on each of five weapons counts. He showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
To bad he can’t actually serve the 250 years and be executed 5 times.
So much for peaceful, rural areas.
I wasn’t implying that rural areas are completely peaceful, quiet and law abiding. Crimes happen anywhere there are people. In general rural areas are less crime prone that cities. I have lived in rural areas where the police actually investigated when a driver put tire ruts across a lawn – and caught the criminal! That county also had the occasional bank robbery.
I seldom heard a siren in Crawford County. Here in Newport News it is so common I generally don’t notice them – unless I’m driving.
I think rural areas have been more peaceful -- but it depends on who is moving into them and from where. Many of the farmworkers are coming from the slums of Mexico City or Juarez -- they never did farm work before in their lives and many see drugs and crime as a better way of getting money than hard work. The hard working farm workers tend to come from the more rural regions of Mexico where they've always worked hard and don't mind physical hard work --- but that's not all of them.
Bread and circuses.
That’s what I have been hearing from a friend in Arizona.
Granted, we do have the occassional Watchtower or Mormom missionaries but they're aren't very aggressive. On the more sinister side, in the passed four years two homes have been hit by ice falling falling from aicraft.
I guess statistically getting hysterical over the police and my home just isn't a concern (which come to think of it, doesn't seem to be a major worry for the general public at large either) but perhaps I should invest in a metal roof.
Especially not if you answer the door butt naked. Not that I've ever done that, of course....
Great! Now I'll have that idea running around in my head for a while.
uh....HELLO!!...it IS the policia's MO....no-knock raids, swat team mentality...HO! Welcome to the policia state, with all of its un-intended consequences....
The Capt.
I'm sure glad I don't live where you live.
Most people don't know one weapon from another. Reporters are especially stupid on this issue...often identifying semi-auto weapons as "automatic".
One liberal reporter at the GOP convention commented on how sad is was to see groups of police officers on patrol with AK-47's because of how dangerous President Bush had made the U.S.
There was a hilarious thread on FR a while back on how to deal with Jehova's Witnesses. I'll ping you if I find it.
You're just trying to frighten me!
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