Showing posts with label raids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raids. Show all posts

One More Unwarranted, No-Knock Raid Ends In Murder

by Stirling Watts.      Cop gets a pass on killing of 7-year-old. The frequency of civil rights violations carried out daily across this nation by out-of-control police departments is as alarming as is their sickening and shocking natures, but unwarranted no knock raids are the worst kind. Just over four years ago, an innocent seven year old girl was shot in  ... MORE

The High Cost Of Living In A Police State

by John W. Whitehead.     Who pays the price for the police shootings that leave unarmed citizens dead or injured, for the SWAT team raids that leave doors splintered, homes trashed, pets murdered, and family members traumatized and injured, if not dead? I’m not just talking about the price that must be paid in hard-earned dollars, whether    ... MORE

Rethinking ‘No-Knock’ Tactics In Wake Of Cop’s Death

by Jared Keever.   The downside of breaking in through a window. The recent announcement that a Texas district attorney will seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a police officer raiding his home has sparked debate among many as to whether so-called no-knock search warrants, conducted by local SWAT teams, are safe or   ... MORE

Right of Self Defense in Texas Completely Depends on Race

By all means if you're white.    In the first stage of what is known as general adaptation syndrome, a recognized natural response among all vertebrates and many other organisms is hyperarousal or acute stress response. In its more recognizable name, the “fight or flight” response is a natural physiological reaction to a perceived harmful event,    ... MORE

DEA Shoots Grandmother During Fruitless Drug Raid

by Ed Krayewski.   Lilian Alonzo, a 49-year-old grandmother, was shot while trying to pick up an infant grandchild during a by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Manchester, New Hampshire, according to her son. Police in raids elsewhere arrested two of Alonzo's daughters in an oxycodone ring but neither of them lived with   ... MORE

Scott Shackford: Texas Wants to Execute Man Who Killed Home Intruder Who Turned Out to Be A SWAT Member

Should protecting your home be a capital crime?   Attempting to serve a search warrant by entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed last May.  It was yet another SWAT raid organized for a purpose other than the reason they were invented. The police had a   ... MORE

U.S. Army Drills To Battle Domestic Political Dissent

by Eric Blair.  Government prepares for citizen confrontation. As we've witnessed recently in Ferguson, Missouri, the difference between police and military is already nearly indistinguishable. In other words, the Army is already taking on peaceful citizens in domestic cities. Tank-supported SWAT teams already grenade and raid homes to serve warrants   ... MORE

Jesse Walker: How a Suburban SWAT Team Sees Itself

Obviously, the government is not us.    Even some opponents of militarized law enforcement have been startled by the tactics and machinery on display in Ferguson, Missouri, this week. They might not have been surprised to see such a horror show in Boston or Los Angeles, but they didn't expect it in a suburban or small-town setting.   ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: It's Time for Cops to Stop Shooting Dogs

Their dog good, your dog bad.  The sheriff’s department in Prince Edward Co., Virginia, isn’t returning phone calls about Party. No great surprise. A deputy shot the dog in late June, killing it. The department issued a CYA press release, then dummied up—perhaps in the hope the whole thing would blow over. No wonder: According to a news   ... MORE

The SWAT Team Would Like to See Your Alcohol Permit

by Radley Balko. Using regulatory inspections to conduct warrantless searches. In August a team of heavily armed Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies raided several black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Orlando area. There were more raids in September and October. According to the Orlando Sentinel, barbers and customers were  ... MORE

Tammy Bruce: America Is Turning In To A Police State

The stench of tyranny is in the air.       With so much happening internationally and the number of scandals, crises and general screw-ups of the Obama administration here at home, it’s worth noting a disturbing development here on the domestic front: a rapidly expanding police state. On my radio program last week I had the pleasure of   ... MORE

Miltary Weapons For Cops Creating US Police State

by Gary Meyer.       Just who are they gearing up for? "Police stockpile military equipment" is yet another story about the militarization of local police, acquiring surplus military vehicles and other war-intended equipment, apparently to be used by SWAT teams, now deployed 50,000 times per year in too-frequent dubious or or outright       ... MORE

Drug Warriors Kill Another In No-Knock SWAT Raid

Read about your public servants in action.   Gun-wielding, black-suited law enforcers busted into a home with a battering ram, terrifying everyone inside and leaving one man dead. Newly released helmet-cam video of the incident shows in graphic detail how this violent no-knock raid produced yet another casualty in the vicious War on Drugs.   ... MORE

When Drug Warriors Burn A Baby, Who's The Terrorist?

by Jacob Sullum.      Habersham County, Georgia, Sheriff Joey Terrell feels bad that his deputies horribly burned a toddler by tossing a "distraction device" (a.k.a. a "flash bang" grenade) into the playpen where he was sleeping during a drug raid on Wednesday morning. "The baby didn't deserve this," Terrell concedes in an interview with       ... MORE

SWAT Team Brutally Assaults Innocent Man On Tractor

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA:      Brutalize first, ask questions later. A man says that while he was working on his tractor in his driveway, a van pulled up and a dozen men with rifles piled out and assaulted him.  As they bashed his head in, breaking bones in his face, he believed they were there to kill him.  It was later determined that police had    ... MORE

Zach Weissmueller: Another Drug Bust Gone Bad

Cops can’t get their story straight in killing.       On a sweltering summer morning in the California desert, deputies looking for methamphetamines and bearing automatic weapons barged into the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living a quiet life in the small community of Littlerock. Moments later, Mallory    ... MORE

Joachim Hagopian: The Militarization Of Police State USA

You are sleeping in the middle of the night.   The next thing you know you are suddenly jarred awake with the loud thud of your front door crashing down from a battering ram. What seems about a dozen or more armed men in full armor suits looking just like soldiers in an Afghanistan raid, all carrying assault weapons are invading your home.     ...  MORE