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.
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"We check the door; if it's unlocked we enter," Terrell said. "The door was locked, so they breached the door. There was an obstruction at the door. They tossed a 'flash bang' The "obstruction" was the playpen.
"We keep asking ourselves, 'how did this happen?'," Terrell said. "No one can answer that - you can't answer that. You try and do everything right. Bad things can happen. That's just the world we live in. Bad things happen to good people.
"The baby didn't deserve this," Terrell said. "The family didn't deserve this - this family was displaced from another home down here and apparently just moved in with her."
Terrell said both the district attorney and Georgia Bureau of Investigation have said there was no wrongdoing on the SRT's part.
"I've talked to the D.A., I've talked to the GBI," Terrell said. "I've given them the whole information and they say there's nothing else we can do. There's nothing to investigate, there's nothing to look at." Translation: Nothing to see here, we decided no investigation is needed so everyone move on.
So, what did more damage, on all scales of measure -
the guy buying some drugs,
or the militarized “police” “breaching” the man’s home and burning a toddler with one of their “toys”?
When you have police investigating police its always the same answer.
People don't want to hear about a 2 yr old getting a flash bang in its play pen....so the child was merely distracted, not burned by an incendiary device they delivered on poor intel
Flash-bang grenades are now fastidiously refered to as “distraction devices”. You know Sheriff Terrell is running scared.
I like how they are now using “used a distraction device” instead of what it really was, a flash bang grenade.
“”We keep asking ourselves, ‘how did this happen?’,” Terrell said. “No one can answer that - you can’t answer that. You try and do everything right. Bad things can happen. That’s just the world we live in. Bad things happen to good people.”
Gee, I had no problem figuring out what happened. The police threw an explosive not knowing what was there. It could have been a playpen, a bookcase, a pile of bowling balls, a passed out drunk or a stash of nito or TNT or gasoline. They didn’t think it mattered at the time.
/johnny
> both the district attorney and Georgia Bureau of Investigation
> have said there was no wrongdoing on the SRT’s part.
Of course not. There never is any wrongdoing on the cops part. Not even when they murder innocent people and children. Hey, if there weren’t any criminals among us, they wouldn’t have to be so tough on us, right?
I asked one of the officers why they waited until 9am to surround the house. He said they knew there were kids in the house and wanted to wait until they went to school.
It was kind of a weird situation. They sat outside and used a bullhorn to urge the occupants to either come out or pick up the phone. They didn't break in. After a few hours they left a token force. Later the guy came home and the situation was resolved.
> So, what did more damage, on all scales of measure -
>
> the guy buying some drugs,
> or the militarized “police” “breaching” the man’s home and
> burning a toddler with one of their “toys”?
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Sounds like that could have been accomplished with Andy Taylor sitting in his Sheriff’s car waiting for the guy to come home.
"Know your target and what's behind it" for firearms,
but not for grenades?
These no-knock raids are conducted for one reason; To overcome the occupants quickly to keep them from destroying evidence.
This is bullshit.
I was really surprised they didn't force entry. I didn't think to ask why not.
I live about five miles from downtown Detroit. My city has about half the population of Detroit. We've had one murder in the last two years.
Thread:
Toddler critically injured by ‘flash bang’ during police search
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3161587/posts
Not enough "diversity" in your city, obviously... ;)
Here’s my argument. Since the cops didn’t have any problems walking up to the house to buy drugs why not jut go back to buy some more and then arrest the person as they are at the door making the purchase. These no knock raids are ridiculous.
What is a “distraction device” to the police is a bomb, subject to NFA Destructive Device laws, when we peasants have them. When is a bomb not a bomb? Peasants with bombs of less power than flash-bang grenades have been charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction. Making the police, which have devices of greater power, organized terrorist groups. (Unless a caste system of entailing double standards exist.)
Well, recently we are getting a lot of diversity, from overseas. Things are changing, rapidly. I plan to leave soon for a more bucolic setting.
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