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Grandmother wins $3.76M suit after bungled SWAT raid destroyed home to find iPhone
NY Post ^ | March 7, 2024 | Melissa Koenig

Posted on 03/08/2024 10:39:48 AM PST by eyeamok

Shocking body camera footage showed at least eight officers dressed in tactical gear and carrying automatic rifles jumping out of an armored vehicle and approaching Johnson, who was just wearing a black bathrobe and a bonnet, the following day.

They then proceeded to use a battering ram to get into Johnson’s garage even though she explained to them how to open the door, and broke ceiling tiles to get into her attic — standing on top of one of her brand-new dining room chairs, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed in December 2022.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; jbt; swat
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To: eyeamok

Over the years I’ve gone from strongly pro-police to slightly anti-police. And I don’t think that change is my fault, if you get my drift.

However, I’m still in favor of qualified immunity when the cop has to make a split-second decision while under stress.

Unfortunately, qualified immunity also seems to apply when a cop casually makes a trash decision. No pressure, no stress. Just push someone around for the hell of it. Just arrest someone for the hell of it. Such things happen, and they happen a lot.

Qualified immunity for those cases has got to end, and end now.


21 posted on 03/08/2024 11:26:52 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Seruzawa
People get upset when I tell them when any place gets a SWAT actual police work goes down.

But it is true.

Police watch too much tv or movies or streaming or what ever it is. So does everyone else which is why they have really unrealistic expectations of how things work but when it comes to the police it gets dangerous. Because they have real weapons and the public grants them the assumption that they know what they are doing until proven otherwise.

Police work is dull, often unrewarding in the ego stroke department and you almost never see humanity at it's best.

So it is nice to dream about making a big bust that will get your name in the media with the word "hero" attached.

The problems start when they take steps to make those dreams come true without doing the required dull bits.

22 posted on 03/08/2024 11:29:28 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: Leaning Right

23 posted on 03/08/2024 11:29:43 AM PST by Dick Bachert (TH)
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To: eyeamok

Nothing will change until the Police Chief and the local head of the Police Union have to pay the damages personally.


24 posted on 03/08/2024 11:39:24 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: lurk

” financial awards should come from the budget of the dept who did it.”

Yes. But a portion should come out of the personal pocket of the Police Chief and the head of the local union.


25 posted on 03/08/2024 11:40:35 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Leaning Right

I am pretty much in the same camp, we need the Police, but there are far too many unstable, morally bankrupt and ethically corrupt, in the ranks Nationwide


26 posted on 03/08/2024 11:40:35 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Regulator
It would be completely reasonable to require all police officers to stand for election on a routine basis,

Not the best idea.

Portland and Seattle might elect Antifa as their police.

Atlanta and certain other cities might electe BLM and Black Panthers.

27 posted on 03/08/2024 11:54:54 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Well, they’d know where to put the blame: the person in the mirror.


28 posted on 03/08/2024 11:56:25 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: eyeamok

Was she anywhere near the Capitol in DC on that famous day in January?


29 posted on 03/08/2024 11:56:31 AM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Angelino97; All

We elect Sheriffs all over the nation. They seem to do a bit better than Police Chiefs, which are politically appointed, and subservient to the mayor or city council, another step away from the people.


30 posted on 03/08/2024 12:17:38 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Angelino97

“Portland and Seattle might elect Antifa as their police”

For years they’ve been electing Leftists who then hired leftist police chiefs who made sure they only hired Woke cops.

Same difference.


31 posted on 03/08/2024 12:26:40 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Seruzawa

YUP; and wondering if the next RPG, rocket, or artillery round was being “special delivery” to their fighting hole.

It’s one thing to roust and brutalize a little old lady in a bathrobe versus going against little brown men who are armed and ready to kill you, demonstrates a lot of courage and dedication to the Constitution doesn’t it.

Pretty PATHETIC!


32 posted on 03/08/2024 1:23:13 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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To: Seruzawa

Same kind of yellow cowards who worked Columbine, Uvalde etc.


33 posted on 03/08/2024 1:45:23 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SauronOfMordor

My sister married one of my friends and he became a cop.
After a few years he quit.
I asked why and he said he realized he had developed the “cop attitude”
When I asked he explained everyone he hung out with was a cop, he ate and went drinking together. Most of the people they interacted with were lawbreakers, so everyone was a “Perp” that was not a cop
I asked if I was a perp, and he said yes. He got sick of it an quit and became a firefighter


34 posted on 03/08/2024 2:13:17 PM PST by TStro (God made all men equal Sam Colt made them polite.)
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To: eyeamok

Every single cop on this detail should face the same charges I would face if I had done this to this woman. Breaking and entering, assault, threatening, destruction of property etc. charges should be brought to each snd every cop.

Until this stupid jackassery starts to hurt the actual parties guilty of this idiocy it will continue. In too many cases the cops are simply the best equipped street gang out there.


35 posted on 03/08/2024 2:16:13 PM PST by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware”)
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To: null and void

Donut watch ping


36 posted on 03/08/2024 4:14:23 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Regulator

“It would be completely reasonable to require all police officers to stand for election on a routine basis, and be required to live in the precinct that they patrol. That actually used to be the norm in many cities.”

Good thinking on your part. Now a commission is needed to bring it to fruition.


37 posted on 03/08/2024 4:41:41 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
IF "SWAT" teams are needed at all, which is extraordinarily questionable, they should be regional. Many, if not most states could get by with one for the entire state. Texas might need 2, because of the size of the state. Their budget should set by statute, and have no relation whatsoever with anything they might get during the course of call-out.

You can't have a swat team as long as you allow 'asset forfiture'.

38 posted on 03/08/2024 4:42:00 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma
Are there places that would need a SWAT? Like you said, about one per state. Maybe three in California. But for the most part they end up going on rides to serve warrants just to "remind people that we are useful". And it is, among other things, really bad optics.

A SWAT to raid a house with kidnappers? Ok.

For something like this? No.

Even if they had the right house, it was overkill.

39 posted on 03/08/2024 5:29:08 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: NobleFree; Alaska Wolf; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; Shimmer1; ...
H/T NobelFree

JBT Ping list

“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker

Cop Card

Not this time, even with Internal Affairs clearing you...

40 posted on 03/09/2024 5:47:26 AM PST by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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