Report Shows SWAT justifies tactics by claiming "Gun may be involved"

[Hound]

The problem is they will claim it justifies thier actions, "See, this is exactly why we do it!!".... "We need even more, not less". Ruby Ridge, coming to mind for anybody????

[merl]

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crim...-raid-h/nPcW7/

It’s been almost two months since a SWAT team’s mortars, grenades and tear gas canisters peppered Melinda De La Torre’s Renton home of 15 years, as officers looked for a suspect who wasn’t there.
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The team descended on De La Torre’s home on April 25 in a search for her son. Police said a woman had accused him of stealing from her and told police he was armed.

And look what is the top story at slashdot:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...ws/?tid=pm_pop

Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws

Could that be a part of why they made that report from a small sample size?

[Great-Kazoo]

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crim...-raid-h/nPcW7/



And look what is the top story at slashdot:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...ws/?tid=pm_pop

Could that be a part of why they made that report from a small sample size?

East and left coast urban mentality allows the LE to arm up. After all, the locals are not allowed to defend them self. Urbanites are complacent, they can be paid off. Use the SPLC as the good guy - bad guy meter.
WE'RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND HERE TO HELP..

[merl]

A nice compilation if potentially biased interpretations.
https://www.rutherford.org/publicati...e_police_state

A review of the Supreme Court’s rulings over the past 10 years, including some critical ones this term, reveals a startling and steady trend towards pro-police state rulings by an institution concerned more with establishing order and protecting government agents than with upholding the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

[Hound]

A nice compilation if potentially biased interpretations.
https://www.rutherford.org/publicati...e_police_state

A part of me wishes I had never read that. Good catch on that article.

And this one is spot on with the thread:

Legally owning a firearm is enough to justify a no-knock raid by police. Justices refused to hear Quinn v. Texas (2014) the case of a Texas man who was shot by police through his closed bedroom door and whose home was subject to a no-knock, SWAT-team style forceful entry and raid based solely on the suspicion that there were legally-owned firearms in his household.

[buffalobo]

More steps on the path...