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Posted on 12/17/2007 8:37:42 AM PST by Ken H
Police blamed bad information for sending a SWAT team into a north Minneapolis house early Sunday morning in a raid that ended with shots exchanged between police -- who were struck by bullets -- and the resident, who said he was just defending his family.
The homeowner, who does not speak English, told his brother that he thought the police were the "bad guys" after they broke through the back door of the house, where he lives with his wife and six children. He fired and hit two police officers, who were not injured thanks to their bullet-proof vests and helmets, police said in a statement.
The Police Department's SWAT team was trying to search the two-story house at 12:46 a.m. in the 1300 block of Logan Avenue N., as part of an investigation by the Violent Offender Task Force. But police said that they learned later that bad information led them to that house.
"It was found out that this particular address was not part of that long-term investigation," police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia III told KSTP-TV on Sunday. He told KMSP-TV that it was a "bad situation."
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Vang and his children, who range in age from 3 to 15, were shaken, Dao Vang said. "All these gunshots in the house. They don't know what's going on. Flying bullets in the house and they just cried," he said.
Garcia told KMSP that police grabbed the family's children and shielded them during the incident.
Garcia did not return repeated calls from the Star Tribune on Sunday. Questions about the shooting on Sunday night were referred to Lt. Amelia Huffman, head of the homicide unit, who also did not return calls.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Hey, it’s “good enuff for goobermint werk!”
“Minneapolis Police Apologize For Errant Raid That Led To Gunfire”
http://www.startribune.com/local/12578176.html
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This is laid at the door of the USSC. They need to rule these raids unconstitutional (and they have not to this point they have protected them) unless someones life is in danger. No other reason to raid a home. I do not care if a drug dealer get away. They can arrest these people at another time. I do not want anymore WACO’S. This really makes me angry and fearful. It happen way to often.
“(Nothing gets a cat out of a tree like a $5,000 SWAT sniper rifle.)”
ROTFLMAO!!!
“MY kitty is in the twee!”
“Stand back, ma’am, we’ll get it.”
The middle of the night confusion is one of the reasons warrants are served then. They hope the person being sought will be half asleep and cooperative.
In the middle of the night in the dark, with the recent rash of home invasions, I might close the door and shoot through it rather than wait to see who it is at the risk of my life.
“Police are always going to be following orders from higher up,”
Sure, until you start taking their homes, cars, retirement savings and anything else of value they have and dumping them and their families in the street. That happens once or twice and all this crap will cease.
I just saw the home owner (shooter, victim) on the local news, making a statement. In English. Pretty good English, at that. Now, I’m not saying that because he speaks English that he should have known what was going on. He reacted the same way I probably would. But, in situations like this, the local victim advocates are always rushing to tell the media that so-and-so doesn’t speak English and the system is screwed up and it’s my fault and we need to raise taxes so that everybody gets training in all of the foreign languages that are spoken in the Twin Cities.
Rant over.
Squantos, it would not surprise me if tThe Girl Guides had a SWAT, or for that matter The Knights of Columbus. As far as NOAA goes, someone has to stand up against atmospheric crimes!
LOL........Hot Air is a crime for the Global Warming crowd !
Some local blog coverage/updates..........
http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/222262.html
http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/222175.html
http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/221912.html
http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/221469.html
That part is missing from updated account:
Two policemen were saved by bulletproof vests and helmets, and Mr. Khang, Ms. Moua and their children, possessing no body armor, happened to be curled in the right places to avoid the return gunfire.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1943790/posts?page=52#52
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