[clamper1797]

This Gestapo crap needs to end before some innocent person is killed ...

[ClearCase_guy]

Did they kill the dog?

[PAR35]

They need to train with the Atlanta cops. They don’t leave witnesses.

[saganite]

Wonder if they’ll charge the guy with police assault? Even though I applaud his defense of his home and family I think he’s lucky he’s still alive. SWAT teams are pretty heavily armed.

[PeteB570]

The guy is lucky to be alive.

And I’m betting the SWAT Team leader is asking the team “Even if if was a mistake - why is he still alive?”

[jdub]

Why was it necessary to break into this house at 12:45 am? If someone knocks on my door at that time of the night, i'm not answering it either, and will probably reach for a gun as well.

this nonsense has to stop.

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

A few claymores around the perimeter?

[NonValueAdded]

Wow, and he lived to tell about it? Amazing.

[razorback-bert]

Lubbuck SWAT lives on.

[dragnet2]

The total incompetence of government at all levels has filtered into most of our police departments.

This sh*t is just over the top and is occurring at a disturbing frequency.

[NonValueAdded]

No one answered the front door at the house on Sunday night.

A brave but stupid reporter who attempted that follow-up visit!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The account in the Strib says the homeowner (shooter, victim) spoke no English.

In this account....http://wcco.com/crime/shots.fired.officers.2.611952.html the homeowner has lived in this country for 20 years.....Hmmmmmmm

[kublia khan]

Every one horse town with a two bit sheriff has a paramilitary enforcement organization within it called a S W A T team. It is a constitutional violation on so many different fronts it would take the rest of the day for a list to be compiled. No Knock entry into private property (the primary use of such forces) should be in the top ten and maybe even number one.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Had one of these in Georgia about this time last year...

Elderly woman killed in her own home with a no-knock warrant.

Bad info.... funky, unreliable "informant" under duress to give the "elite" drug squad something they sould use...ASAP...

Let's get those arrest numbers back up there!

Gestapo tactics... IMHO
"Veeee hafff to seee ze papers...
"Vee shall come and go as veee please..."

You dare to shootback...
Vee vill keel ze dog...
Veee vill strip-search your zleeping wife...
Vee vill take your children away....

You vill cooperate.... OR ELSE!!...
Veee might haff to consider ze use of force!

Zank you for your cooperation...

4th Amendment???
We don't need to steeenkin' 4th amendment...

[READINABLUESTATE]

with shots exchanged between police — who were struck by bullets —

Only after you read the entire article do you find out the “bullets” the cops were struck with were actually pellets likely fired from a 12 Ga.

Kinda like calling a chinese SKS an AK-47. I hate sloppy/inaccurate reporting.

[AIM-54]

these SWAT teams are really getting out of control.

[live+let_live]

I had written a post about how incompetent the SWAT team is but then I had a second thought. Maybe that the homeowner didn’t get shot tells how well trained the SWAT team is.

Mistakes happen in every line of work. The SWAT team stopped, in the heat of the action, before something really bad happened. I applaud them.

[mysterio]

2 to 1 odds that the family dog got murdered.

End the failed war on some drugs. It's not worth kicking in doors to make sure someone isn't smoking a plant.

[Smogger]

sickening..

[goldstategop]

D'OH Alert

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus