Posted on 08/17/2014 9:56:45 AM PDT by HammerT
A terrifying helmet cam video, released to the public Wednesday, depicts a SWAT team executing a search warrant on the home of a 68-year-old woman and her 18-year-old adopted daughter. The video is raising questions of privacy, reasonable force and police due diligence. They had the wrong place.
The raid of Louise Milan and daughter Stephanie Milan’s Evansville, Ind. home was accompanied by the sound of shattering glass and multiple flash-bang grenades. It was all due to the Milan’s non-password protected Internet router, according to the Evansville Courier & Press.
The raid was prompted by a series of threatening posts directed at police chief Bolin. The officers left the Milan residence with the family’s computers and cell phones. An examination of there items revealed their innocence. A neighbor had tapped into their non-secure router to send the threats.
Swat Team Raids Innocent Woman's Home; Lawsuit Filed https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xEBmhAgAtR4
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Good grief! Whaddya want? Everything here was done “by the book.”
Followed by a Homer Simpson lament: Why do things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?”
They are coming, My FRiend. They just haven’t gotten here yet. But they will.
SWAT bust down wrong door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rDOPcCxHOI
The judge who issued the warrant needs to be held accountable. Along with the actual thugs and their bosses.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
Not Nazis, NatCs!
This is from a later Post regarding the police officer in the Ferguson shooting.
“CNN broadcast a report Friday that showed the house, including the street number, of the Ferguson police officer who police say shot Mike Brown. The officer has been in hiding due to death threats since the shooting last Saturday. His name, Darren Wilson, was just released Friday morning.
Another news outlet apologized for broadcasting video of Wilson’s home while others have virtually drawn a map to Wilson’s house for those bent on vengeance.
Yahoo News named the community Wilson where Wilson resides and published a photograph of the officer.
The UK Daily Mail also named the community, posted photos of the officer and gave a description of the house.
USA Today also named the community and reported a local police presence.
The Washington Post named the street where Wilson lives.
In the video report, CNN reporter Ed Lavandera is seen walking in the street where Wilson lives. The CNN video shows a wide view of Wilson’s house and then pans around the street to show its relative position in the neighborhood. While Lavandera does not name the street, he gives its approximate location.
Every news report says neighbors told them Wilson has not been home for several days.
A version of the video being aired by CNN affiliate Newschannel 13 in Orlando, Florida (and likely other affiliates around the country including the St. Louis market) shows a brief close-up of the house number by the front door such that someone could freeze and enlarge the image to get the address. “
Do the same for these judges and SWAT supervisors.
Hey if you don’t like your neighbors an they have an unsecured router....
All that for some posts?
Would they do that for anyone else who receives threats?
That seems to be the case - My question eve IF they were guilty, was that really necessary?
So many spoofs ... many follow spoofs everyday to find the spoofers. Whole cottage industry now-a-days to find the spoofers.
Yeah, the footage at the end of the video was also disturbing.
They had already rousted those poor people and now they were hanging out in their living room having a good joking about what happened, nice.
Consider these items:
1. Since when do ‘threats’ justify this kind of an overreaction?
2. Would threats to one of the Hoi polloi be treated the same or would it be ignored?
Someone pointed out that the ‘S’ in SWAT is for Special – these days it seems like ‘special’ is everyday whenever the Government decides it is.
Bingo. And whosoever swore any “Oath or affirmation” in such a matter.
Yup – I’ve seen Leftists react to this kind of government overreach and oppression with yawns and disinterest.
So-called “Liberals” are nothing of the sort.
the media needs to demand that these posts be released. What is 'threatening' ? Other than posting 'fire in the theatre' anything else is probably free speech. The problem with wrong-addy raids is two-sided, oh look - there was that very neighbor, looking over the fence...and nobody paying attention to him.
Well at least all the cops went home safe that night to their undamaged homes and untraumatized families and that’s what’s important here. (do I really need to put a /sarc on it?)
“Someone pointed out that the ‘S’ in SWAT is for Special...”
Oh that is so weird, I just read that same thing over in the comments at NRO. To a very pointless Jay Nordlinger post in which he quotes from an email he got from a LEO (I think that’s what it was).
I generally like Nordlinger, but he can be a little full of himself. The cop discusses a raid on what sounds like Al Capone’s place, which is not what anyone is talking about.
That’s probably were I saw that - but he does make a good point.
Time was the SWAT team was rarely called into action - and only for extreme situations.
These days....
I would be curious about that myself - it certainly sounds like a bit of heavy handed government to me.
Not to mention that ‘fire in a theater’ thing is a bit of an over wrought canard.
I’m not sure if that is actually codified in the law anywhere, and the circumstances would also come into play.
IF there is actually is a fire, or if the theater is empty, etc.
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