Posted on 05/30/2014 5:26:33 AM PDT by armydawg505
CLARKESVILLE - Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell now is talking about the high-risk warrant service that resulted in burns to a 2-year-old child early Wednesday.
The child was burned when narcotics agents, assisted by members of the Habersham Special Response Team, used a distraction device as they entered a home at 182 Lakeview Heights Circle outside Cornelia.
"We had prior information on it," Terrell said of the circumstances of the home and its occupants. "The individual had been involved in an altercation with another male involving a possible AK-47 [rifle] several months ago, and he was arrested on some weapons charges. Supposedly that was about drugs."
Terrell said agents followed standard procedure prior to obtaining a search warrant and planning the raid.
(Excerpt) Read more at accessnorthga.com ...
Thinking about your situation, I imagine what someone like Chris Matthews or Melissa HP would say.
You have a lifestyle you like, in a low crime city, and when people move in that would destroy your lifestyle and your safety, when you want to move away, YOU are the bad buy, the “racist”.
Just goes to support my assertion that the left is NOT really about raising up those who live in bad conditions,
but of destroying the good environments of those that live in them.
The cops should all be in jail
Of course the Left live in their nice gated communities.
Bump
how about knocking on the back door and then coming thru the front....That’s distracting isn’t it.
Throwing a grenade is so much easier than doing actual police work
Absurd! What kind of evil hearted, no good, person are you?
You would use common sense and deny these poor guys their entertainment!?
Thats the boring way. They wouldn’t get to use all their cool toyz.
I suppose the only LEGAL recourse is voting this unconstitutional sheriff out of office come next election.Under the ridiculous immunity doctrines ,no law enforcement person ever personally loses money even in the few instances a ruling is in favor of the injured innocent party.
They forgot to mention that they likely blew out the poor kid’s ear drums...And maybe ruptured all the blood vessels in his eyes...
Again, leftists are all about elitism, defined as “having a huge difference between their lifestyle and that of the majority of people”. It’s not the “level” of lifestyle that’s important to them, but the DIFFERENCE. They’d rather be at 80 and everyone else at 10 than be at 99 and everyone else at 60.
There’s only so far you can go on the “up” side to increase that difference, so it’s far easier to destroy the lifestyle of the middle class masses.
Plus it's a great adrenaline rush for the cops. They have cool toys and can't wait to use them.
All those kids in Waco got “burned” by a “distraction device” too. Don’t ya just love all the “1984” style NewSpeak that’s foisted on us my a compliant media?
Just like it working so well when mac daddy has members of his sock puppet administration investigate other members of his sock upper administration.
Sanitizing and minimizing the event are only the beginning.
All the signs were there that children might be present, but they went ahead anyway. That's negligent.
They keep asking themselves “How did this happen?” — because for one thing they did not exercise proper care and due diligence.
From the original story you posted yesterday:
// Thometheva was not at the home at the time of the raid but was later arrested at another house on a felony drug charge of distribution of meth. ...
... Officers had no indication that any children were inside the Lakeview Heights home when they returned around 3 a.m. Wednesday, Terrell said, and approached the same door where drugs had been purchased.
But this time, the device landed in the playpen where a toddler was sleeping. Little Bounkham Bou Bou Phonesavanhs and his family, including parents and three older sisters, were all asleep in the room while visiting from Wisconsin. Only the little boy was injured. //
Obviously they had no CLUE what or who was in that house if 1) the person they want isn’t there and 2) a family of 6 (SIX) *is* there that they were unaware of.
Btw, the reason that family (allegedly) was there is that “ The family was only supposed to be in Georgia temporarily after a fire at their Wisconsin home, the Phonesavanhs said.”
THIS IS WRONG.
“Distraction Device” is someone waving a sign and yelling “yoo hoo, look over here!”
I’m sure that cops wouldn’t treat a GRENADE thrown into THEIR homes or police station as they would a “distraction device”.
Well they said they had info from a CI not seeing any children so what’s the problem? So does anyone believe that the CI would lie or even care?
It’s a sad sad case, but the swat team went home safe, they arrested the perp and they are blameless.
How long before the swat teams will be justified to use tanks to blow up houses after having authority from some judge on info from a CI?
How come they were unable to get in before the flash bang was used but were able to get in after it was used?
When these things first came out there were cautions that they could be lethal to an adult at close range.
The answer is because we have jack booted thugs inforcing warrants instead of police officers in the normal course of their daily work. SWAT teams are a symptom that the police are at war with the citizens. The poor baby sleeping in his crib was just collateral damage and to be expected.
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