Bizarre: Deputies Raid Wrong House, Attempt to Arrest Wrong Family, Burn Down Kitchen
- Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:41pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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A San Diego family is dazed and confused (and displaced) after a bizarre ordeal involving mistaken identity, arrests, medical marijuana, a skateboard, and a burned-down kitchen.
10News attempts to explain the debacle:
The ordeal began around 9 p.m. when San Diego Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a medical marijuana delivery provider robbed at gunpoint near the 3000 block of Nereis Drive. Sheriff’s officials said a witness reported seeing an armed man running into a house.
Willie Houston, who lives in the home, said his family was making dinner when they realized deputies surrounded the house.
“So I go outside to the door and they tell me to stick my hand through the bar and come on out and follow the voice and the light, and as soon as I get out they handcuff me,” said Houston.
Around the same time, Houston’s son-in-law came home and was also put in handcuffs, but ultimately let go. The family said they were ordered out of the house at gunpoint.
Houston’s wife, Christine, added, “I said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s food on the stove, my grandbaby is upstairs, Cherie is upstairs,’ and then all of sudden all hell breaks loose; all the smoke started coming out of the house.”
The fire broke out in the kitchen, and two women and a 7-year-old girl were trapped on the second floor of the home, according to authorities.
One deputy used a skateboard and another used a fire ax in an attempt to break the windows to get the people out. Deputies had everyone out by the time the fire crews arrived.
The Houstons say they are grateful no one was hurt but say add that the situation could have been handled better.
“[I] think it could be handled better than what it was, especially when we [were] informing them there was no reason for our kitchen to catch on fire; we could’ve lost everything last night,” said Willie Houston.
The Houstons also said the sheriff’s department apologized and promised to compensate them for any damages incurred, but the department’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell denied the claim.
“This is certainly going to be part of all the investigation that’s going to go on post-incident; what happened, when it happened, reviewing all the reports that have been taken in combination with the fire department and the bomb-arson report,” said Caldwell.
Front page photo source: The Daily Mail
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richard bensen
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:05pmWhether they were back or white….really don’t matter…they were a family ready to sit down for chow and because of the error the house was torched.Either way what ****** me off is okay..the police made a mistake,they told this family they would take care of it..now they are backsliding…..WTF…
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:06pmTypical BS from the government. Now they will try to make them the bad guys. All they need to do is bring in a repair crew and fix the mess and pay for the problems they created. But when you are a supremacist you can never admit when you are wrong so you try to spread the blame. Like 99% wrong but you were 1% so we don’t have to p[ay. Nothing changes Get DA out of office and put one in that is better to the people and not so kind to the Government.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:03pmI‘m from the government and I’m here to help. Now put your hands on top of your head and turn around you’re under arrest.
Just what you want to here when you are setting down to dinner.
OMG 2012
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:00pmSo, a pusher get robbed.
Why were the police called?
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 7:09pmIt is baffling to me that the woman told them she had food on the stove. How hard is it to send an officer to check it out and to turn off the stove? I mean, we’re not talking rocket science here. She also told them there was a child in the house. Why didn’t they check it out?
And to IcedDragonnite – the owner‘s race doesn’t really matter. When they do a drug bust, they are out after the dealer, regardless of race. Our two major local drug busts were both white dealers.
The reason that the office backtracked on making the repairs is because if they confirmed that they were responsible, they’ll have a major lawsuit on their hands. They are going to have one anyway, but that‘s why they won’t admit it. I hope they have home owner’s insurance or renters insurance.
As for the mistaken address – come on, officers. You all can do better than that. But I do have admit that sometimes the informant gives the wrong information. However, if the cops are doing surveillance, they should be able to figure it out.
Report Post »black9897
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 8:19pmIt’s ok. It‘s all for everyone’s safety. Just like income Tax, drug laws, gun laws, seat belt laws, etc.
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:04amJust another day fighting the War on Drugs.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:02pmMaybe the dope fumes are getting to them after so many raids and “burning” the product. This story does not really clear much up. Everyone seems to be claiming “fowl.” Wonder if (sorta pun, intended) where there is smoke there is fire? That sure would have been a whoper of a mistake. Maybe som field observation for a few months would have been helpful. Just to bust in on someone because of? Well, it sounds strange and a bit one-sided to me.
Report Post »RailRoadCar9
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:39pmthey damn well better pay for the damage , oh wait these crooks in our government think that everyone else should be held to the maxim standards expect for those with our government
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:48pmblackyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:02pm
Maybe som field observation for a few months would have been helpful.
==========================================
Not always……
As an example…..for 2 years, the DEA had this 76-year old woman’s mobile home in north Georgia under surveillance before they decided to raid it….
It turned out to be the wrong address anyway:
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“Police raid wrong home, cause heart attack
Posted: May 13, 2010 10:48 AM CDT Updated: May 13, 2010 11:06 AM CDT
To police investigators, the double-wide in rural Polk County was the hiding place of a drug trafficker. But to her family, it was merely the longtime home of a 76 year old widow named Helen Pruett.
“All she did was go to church, go to Walmart, go to the beauty shop, and that’s it,” said Machelle Holl, Pruett’s daughter.
Tuesday morning, police dressed in black paramilitary fatigues, armed with weapons and an arrest warrant surrounded Pruett’s home, knocked on the door and demanded to be let in.
Helen Pruett’s family says she saw them through the window, was frightened, and didn’t believe they were really police.
“She didn’t know what to do. There was banging on the windows, men saying let me in,” said daughter Diana Merrick.
Pruett opened the door – and police almost instantly realized their warrant had the wrong address.”
Report Post »http://www.nbc-2.com/story/12476293/police-raid-wrong-home-cause-heart-attac
EqualJustice
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:53pmAnother FALSE TIP from Kimberlin? haha
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:49pmMedical marijuana delivery provider??? Probably followed by a Pizza delivery provider……
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:01pmWhy did I think, before even rfeading the article that ‘This HAS to b e in CALIFORNIA’???????????????
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:48pmThe Houstons also said the sheriff’s department apologized and promised to compensate them for any damages incurred, but the department’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell denied the claim.
“This is certainly going to be part of all the investigation that’s going to go on post-incident; what happened, when it happened, reviewing all the reports that have been taken in combination with the fire department and the bomb-arson report,” said Caldwell.
——AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! What right is right and what wrong is wrong!! Compensate the people!.. what really got me was the “bomb-arson report!?!?”
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:44pmDid this happen in Keystone?
Report Post »Jaxco
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:43pmWe need a law to publicly hang cops that break the law. What happened to knocking on the damn door? All of the ‘ninja gear’ needs to be removed from police departments.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:50pmYou think with the “nija gear” they would be able to break down a door— without a skateboard!!!!
Police are great, dont get me wrong, but what a bunch of rookies!
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:13amWe need a law to publicly hang cops that break the law. What happened to knocking on the damn door? All of the ‘ninja gear’ needs to be removed from police departments.
Really? Ok, how about the same time we have a law to publicly and summarily hang Joe Schmoe that broke that law?
As some one that has worn the “ninja gear” let me fill you in on your ignorance. When you respond to a possible robbery you don’t simply walk up to the door and knock like your Andy Griffith and your in Mayberry. That gear is there to protect me so that I go home at the end of the day to hug my kids. I personally don’t like the idea of officers wearing a balaclava unless its for flash protection. Sadly that is needed these days. “Back in the day” much of this gear was not needed and we COULD walk up and simply knock on the door.
Additionally what law was broken? Yes they went to the wrong address but why? By the time I have recieved a radio call from my dispatcher it has been relayed by as many as 4 people if you included the reporting party, and with a major metroplex it can be many more than that. Any person in that chain can transpose a number or give a similar sounding street but that is not criminal. It’s only criminal if they KNEW it was the wrong house and went there anyway.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:08pm“Ok, how about the same time we have a law to publicly and summarily hang Joe Schmoe that broke that law?”
Joe Schmoe didn’t swear an oath to Protect and Serve, and Joe Schmoe does not have the Public’s Trust, like police officers who we expect to at least follow the law in the course of enforcing it.
And thank you for your service as a LEO. One of my best and longest known friends was just sworn as an officer,,,and he’d tell you the same thing he told me, no one held a gun to his or your head and made you take the job, you knew you were putting your life in danger when you made the choice.
Report Post »If you want a guarantee to come home to hug your kids each night, good luck, because no job in the world offers that.
Ramv36
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:21pm“Additionally what law was broken? Yes they went to the wrong address but why? By the time I have recieved a radio call from my dispatcher it has been relayed by as many as 4 people if you included the reporting party, and with a major metroplex it can be many more than that. Any person in that chain can transpose a number or give a similar sounding street but that is not criminal. It’s only criminal if they KNEW it was the wrong house and went there anyway.”
How is it FEDEX does exactly what you are describing neigh MILLIONS of times a day (going to a correct address reported by a 3rd or 4th party successfully), and not only getting the address right, but delivering it within hours of their promised time anywhere in the world? Are cops and dispatchers not as reliable as our men and women in uniform, because the statistics seem to bear out that conclusion. At least if FEDEX delivers my package next door by mistake my neighbors aren’t at risk of shooting and/or arson death.
Report Post »supermansdad
Posted on May 30, 2012 at 10:44pmIve worked for FEDEX before also, they get it wrong every day, but the biggest reason it works for them is its simple cut-paste for when the vender sends out your order from “Big Box Store X” so if it‘s wrong it’s because you screwed it up. Yet we had non-existant addresses all the time.
Many dispatchers are great at their job but a good chunk are not. They are not paid well and there is high turnover rates, so by the time we get a good one trained up they find a better job.
The article indicates no law that is broken. Officers were dispatched to a location, upon arrival they set up a perimiter. All seems within SOP. Later the building is cleared during which time a fire breaks out, does not say who/what started the fire. Sorry, but dinner can wait an extra few minutes while officers continue to clear the structure. NO KNOWN LAW IS BROKEN! Well, maybe a few culinary laws but eh…
Every action listed in the article is justifiable as it has yet been reported. Had a deputy intentionally knocked over the dinner in a manner to cause a fire or dumped olive oil on the stove that would be different.
Also, most people forget, cops are citizens first!
Report Post »affinity
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:40pmTheir lucky the cops didn’t electrocute them and shoot them.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:10pmLucky they weren’t charged with the crime of living at the wrong address. Oh wait, are those NON-ORGANIC VEGETABLES on the table?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? We got a Code Michele, guys! Call in Swat, seal off the block, bring in the food police…..Someone is eating BAD FOOD!
^^Sadly, I see that happening in the not too distant future. Just another symptom of having already traveled Through The Looking Glass.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:32pmI think its just to dangerous to hire an ex military person as a police officer because there have been to many brutality cases involving them and making up the majority of them.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:54pm?!?!?!? –you have no idea what you are talking about.
Go back to your math homework, and while your at it, tell your parents you are sorry you didn‘t study more and turn out like the kid who cracked Newton’s Math Code.
And by the way, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!!
Report Post »spfoam1
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:13pmAfter reading your comments I have to say something. You must be the stupidest person alive, but you sure can run (at the mouth).
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:30pmstupid pigs go back to your trailer and bang your cousin.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:33pm@ Ausename,
Sorry, we don’t enjoy what you do on a daily basis.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:41pmHes right. Why would we wnat people who have been in war zones policing Americans in America? That makes no sense. They are killers. Which is what we need to defend this country, but you dont let them police Americans. Come on guys think.
http://planet.infowars.com/uncategorized/kelly-thomas-beaten-to-death-by-fullerton-police-official-footage
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:57pm@ End the fed now….
… are you smoking the same crack ausername is????
..what kind of logic is that? If that are killers, then what do you want to do with them after the military? Put them in Jail?
The police in the this story made a mistake, so the family should be compensated for damages and emotional stress.
The Military are disipline, and you and your buddy Ausername here cannot see that only because you dont know what that word means.
Happy Memorial Day, Nutzo
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:30pmMaybe idiot Al (Sharpton) is right. Reinstitute the draft so that more Americans will see and understand military men and women are just the same as they are. Military men and women are not killers. Deaths created by warfare is as old as humanity itself.
Support the troops and officers! They are the ones able to keep us free.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:20pmAfter the military they should go back to being private citizens, not public servents who carry a gun for work. Makes no sense. PTSD is to rampant.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:24pmYes cause in the new Amerika wanting the troops to go to war and die is what being a good Amerikan is about….God help us.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:45pm@ End the Fed,
So what you are saying is that their should a law not allowing certain people to not do certain things… sounds alot like what you claim you are against buddy.
Beware of communism — it‘s not just about politics it’s about a philosophy. Think about what you are saying “End”. Dont accuse others of what you are saying indirectly. You are sound very authorative in your responses.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 5:59pmNDAA indefinite detention without trial or lawyer by military for suspicion, Patriot act cops break into your house without warrant and spy on your in the internet without it, Property tax prevents you from owning your home, President’s DOJ officials arguing they can kill Americans on suspicion. can’t even drive in peace without getting pulled over, in many places self defense is not allowed against unlawful attacks by cops, you can’t even protest without a bunch of cops surrounding you and attacking you and even arresting you for nothing harmful. little kids can’t run lemonades stands without cops shutting it down. There used to be 45 felonies and now there are over 4500 and more regulations on business and failure to comply results in prison time despite it not being harmful. We are in a police state, were not some land of the free at all.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:08pmAUSER, you’re an idiot. Dont believe me? Go look in the mirror. Like someone else said, you’re about the most stupid person on the planet. The correct term for you is imbecile.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:31pmThis kind of stuff happens all the time now:
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“No-Knock Raid on Wrong House Terrifies 76-Year-Old Man
Mike Riggs
March 28, 2012
Fred Skinner was eating a piece of toast when police from three different agencies burst through his front door with guns drawn, put the 76-year-old in handcuffs, and began ransacking his house in search of drugs. Minutes later, one of the officers noticed a piece of mail on Skinner’s table. The name on it didn’t match the name for the suspected drug dealer the officers were after. The officers asked Skinner if the name on the mail was his. When Skinner said yes, the officer shouted “Wrong house,” and the entire raid team headed out the way they’d come, without apologizing or explaining themselves. They were, according to a department spokesperson, in too much of a rush to get next door, where their suspect was supposedly located.”
Report Post »http://reason.com/blog/2012/03/28/no-knock-raid-on-wrong-house-terrifies-7
starman70
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:03amAnd by that time, the suspect who lived next door had time to flush the drugs doen the toilet and beat a hasty retreat to some other location. What a bunch of ROOKIES! While there have been“Senior citizens” involved in the drug trade, they are few and far between. The cops should have known better.
Report Post »NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:25pmPigs ………. America is under attack. Years ago the government surveyed the military about taking arms against us citizens. They found our brave soldiers would not. The police are a worthless reactionary force.
Just open carry a gun or conceal carry and you dont need them.
Report Post »Belchfire V-8
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:38pmI took that survey, while still in the service. But DON’T CALL THEM PIGS!!!!!! That, alone, makes you a PINHEAD!!!!!!!
Report Post »rockhead
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:19pmDid Brett Kimberlin make the call to the cops?
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:16pmStorm trooper on the loose.
White house led war on whitey.
DOJ attack on the Church, the Catholic Church in particular.
Corruption in the DOJ.
Incompetence in the State Dept.
Were I a weatherman I would call this a perfect storm
Report Post ».
Baddoggy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:14pmPolice nowadays almost always fall into two categories…The revenue generator by handing out tickets and the cold stone killing machines that cant seem to find restraint……We dont need either…
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:13pmHappens to me all the time.
Report Post »Heck, I can search for a certain name on the net and get pulled over the next time I drive on the highway. They’re reading this now. Hello CIA Psyops.
GoodStuff
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:24pmkook alert
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:41pm@goodstuff
Mindless drone alert.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:29pmGoodstuff alert….
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:12pmPolice state is alive and well.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:08pmDrugs are bad, so it justifies the worst behavior by our law enforcement agencies. Right?
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:23pmNot to be picky, but they were responding to a robbery at gunpoint.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:24pm@Bruce
Don’t be a stupid Paulbot, this isn’t about drugs. This is about police incompetence. If it was unrelated to drugs, i.e. someone said a rapist just ran inside that home, the police would respond the same way. This issue is not drugs, but police stupidity. Snap out of it.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:42pmits artificial stimulus it gives morons a job because there screwing the head on the barbie dolls went to china.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:07pmTo hell with the war on drugs and any idiot republican who supports it. We (USA) lock up more people than Iran,China and India. Louisiania alone locks up more people than China. Those are facts people. The war on drugs is really the war on the American people. POLICE STATE
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:25pmPaulestinian alert.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:42pm@goodstuff
So you think the federal war on drugs is working?
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:43pmhey stupid people needs jobs to.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:05pm@ Mutiny,
No, because if it did, you would be a respectable person
@ Ausername,
Ya, your so stupid you have to rely on your parents computer to get on the internet. Go back to looking up porn.
Report Post »resme
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:06pmIf drugs even get into prisons, How do you expect the war on drugs to work?
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:38pmCrazy Times
You live your condesending life looking down on people who want personal liberty, small government, sound econmics and not to be the police of the world. There are plenty of studies showing when you make drugs legal use goes down. Thats how a free market system works. You keep thinking all police are gods and we should do whatever they say.
RIP Kelly Thoams
http://planet.infowars.com/uncategorized/kelly-thomas-beaten-to-death-by-fullerton-police-official-footage
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:04pm@ End the Fed,
First off, with rights comes responsiblities Paul-bot, so stop doing your drugs, and you will realize that.
Second, dont put words in my mouth….
Third, if you think the U.S. is a police state, then you have issues you need to deal with.
Happy Memorial Day for those who have fallen.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:24pm@crazy
I have never done drugs.
Some people like freedom (me). Some people like to be told what to do and how to think (you).
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:38pm@ Munity,
So you are saying that you like freedom? What have you done to protect it? Don answer me, answer yourself that question….I know what i have done and am doing.
Beware- of Communism (ya sure with a slogin like that, i want to live in a nanny state – get real).
Happy Memorial Day!
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 6:11pmENDTHEFED, what about all the democrats that support it? You’re such a simpleton.
Report Post »John Moser
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:33pmCrazy Times, what makes neocons, like yourself, so damn stupid? “Happy Memorial Day for those who have fallen” What? Happy Memorial Day? You’re about as smart as Ausername. Merry Memorial Day…Geez.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:01pmFirst, ban alcohol for Blacks & Indians… then demand Perscriptions, only by “doctors”… then ban Drugs… then create a War upon Drugs… when from the Beginning of the World to 150 years ago, NO ONE CARED!
People can be… Irrational, Stupid, & Crazy!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:57pmThis makes me very worried as it should every citizen .. … in my area .. all the street have similar names (three in a row starting with D) not only that .. but all the streets have the SAME HOUSE Numbers .. as in there is a 123 Denison .. and a 123 Donald and a 123 Davis … we are always getting the right NUMBER but wrong street mail .. what about if the person on the other street with my number does something to provoke the police … man this is scary .. they need to be VERY certain before they do anything .. I have TWO signs one by my front door and ONE before you get to my front door with not only the number but the STREET!
So glad no one died … THIS TIME.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:11pm@Cat B – all too true, this is one time no one got hurt thanks to God. I hope the SD Police makes good on the damage to their home; if not, then bring a full lawsuit against them for damages. Stuff like this kind of mistake seems to be happening more and more lately, and I have to wonder if it is due to more trouble being dumped onto fewer police officers or are there more pressures cascading from the political elitists down on them?
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:39pm@SnowLeopard
It is because of the reduction of standards to become a police officer and the adrenaline induced euphoria that ensues that takes perfectly normal human beings in Uniforms and makes them idiots on the job. I respect authority until it acts or does stupid to others. All it would have taken was for little extra time to know the situation and then fix it. Now the City will be engaged in a legal battle where only the legal system wins and the folks will barely recoup their losses. And then the taxpayers will then have to pay extra because the Police Budget was busted because of a mistaken bust on the wrong house.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:51pmDe-militarize our Police. Insist that addresses be confirmed by multiple parties before a raid is conducted.
There are too many cases similar to this one, where even one such incident is far too many.
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:57pmyour an idiot
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:12pm@TXbigfoot…You dont think your police force is Militarized? Wake up and smell the coffee. My small town has a SWAT team that could take out half the town by itself…You are the idiot.
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:15pm@tx
You must be a cop.
The cops have gotten out of control with practically zero consequences for their dumb actions. Now these thugs have machine guns, military grade sniper rifles, armor, tanks, and drones.
It seems any public department with a union goes stupid.
Report Post »LostInTheSpin
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:16pmThis happens far too often to be ignored. If this kind of behavior is alright with you, TXBIGFOOT, then you are the one who is an idiot.
Report Post »rockhead
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:17pmHey, bigfoot. Did you mean “You’re” (contraction for ‘you are’) an idiot“ or ”your” (as in something possessed by the person being addressed)?
New to the English language? Get your grammar right when calling someone an idiot.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:21pmI live in a city of about 150,000, and the police force resembles the army of a small nation.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:45pmor just have Indiana’s state law across the country so those thugs learn their lesson. You can shoot anyone on your property you deem a threat. although its not only in Indiana but still.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 2:48pmnot all cops are terrorists but all terrorists in America seem to be cops.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 3:02pm@ most of you all,
You have seemed to loose your common sense when you are taking about police and military….
.. go live in a country that has real police brutality, real par-military police, and people who will put you up next to a wall, shoot you, and force your family to pay for the bullet that killed you.
God Bless America, and if you don’t believe in God, then Aliens from another planet bless America or Mr. T bless America or whatever the hell you believe in.
Happy Memorial Day!!!!
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:23pm@crazy
We dont want to live in a police state, hence the anger.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 4:31pm@ Munity,
Your not living in a police state.. Whoever told you that is lying to you.
When you and your family members or you neighbors are being hauled off, never to be seen again, then you have to start to question if you are living in a police state.
Come freedom comes responsiblity, it doesn’t mean that you live in a police state because someone like “end the fed” feels like drugs should be legal and all police who are enforcing that law are pigs or the military should not be police because they are killers.
Come freedom comes responsiblity, and right now we dont have responsiblity in the U.S. < legalize drugs now and everyone will be chewing off peoples' faces.
We need to be involved and monitor our governement so that a police state does not occur. It is up to us.
Happy Memorial Day!
Report Post »Mutiny
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 11:55pm@crazy
We are trying to prevent it from becoming a police state you imbecile.
My father is from Chile. He left there when the secret police were rounding people up.
Our cops are armed to the teeth( step one ). The next part is disarming the citizens ( step two ). We are one step away from a police state.
Report Post »Mr.Nick
Posted on May 29, 2012 at 1:48pm@ Crazy
Are you kidding me?? Oh we do live in a police state – just look up Lake County Illinois. Yeah the cops over here have only beaten and tased several men to death over the last couple of years, not to mention kept several men in jail and prison despite DNA evidence exonerating them. Some of these men were in prison for up to 20 years….
Oh then of course you have Cook (Crook) County Illinois (Chicago) where cops like John Burge had a 20-year career where he beat people until they confessed to crimes they didn’t commit….
There are youtube video’s of people being murdered by the police in my county (Lake County Illinois)…
Hell, they pretty much tased my dad and broke down my parents door, all because my brother found a first generation Ipod in a PUBLIC BATHROOM in a sandwich shop his girlfriend worked at…… They issued an arrest warrant for my brother – the charge – “failure to return property” – what my brother did is no different than finding a 10 dollar bill and saying “cool it must be my lucky day.”
Oh, the best part is we caught the ensuing incident with the police state all on tape.
All my dad asked for is to see an arrest warrant – which the police state refused to provide him with. Also remember this is all over an 15 dollar Ipod.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYwcxGLkwQ
I call that police state.
My county is under federal investigation for these authoritarian tactics and wrongful prosecution(s)…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:50pmEveryone is guilty until proven innocent, or given a plea bargain. They should be glad they didn’t have a dog, it would have been presidential dinner.
Report Post »DieBambi
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:50pmThis obviously happened because Bush is a racist
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:49pmLovely police state we live in. Won’t be long and homeowners
Report Post »will shoot first and ask questions later. Our gung-ho cops are
way out of line and they know it. So when they get shot up
just going up to a door, they have no one to blame but themselves.
LanceJ
Posted on May 28, 2012 at 1:49pmwhat morons
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Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
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