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Sheriff Wants Your Prayers; Target of Warrant Could Be Charged For Injuries to Toddler
Reason.com ^ | May 30, 2014 | Ed Krayewski

Posted on 06/02/2014 9:40:48 AM PDT by Altariel

CNN has updates on the story of the Georgia SWAT team that threw a flash bang while executing a no-knock warrant that severely burned a nineteen-month-old baby. Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell says the deputies involved are "devastated" and that they've been called "baby killers" and received threats. "All I can say is pray for the baby, his family and for us," the sheriff told CNN.

Terrell has insisted his officers and those of the local police department did nothing wrong and blamed the target of the warrant (not found at the house that was invaded) on the attack on the toddler. A chief assistant district attorney for the county, J. Edward Staples, says the target of the warrant could in fact be charged for the injuries the sheriff's deputies caused the toddler. In an obvious attempt to immunize himself and his office from liability, the sheriff has claimed the situation was unavoidable even as he attempted to offer reassurances that his SWAT team would be more diligent in the future. He told CNN that his officers "obviously would have done things different" (IF they knew there was a child in the home), like go in through a side door or not use a flash bang.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; cw2; donutwatch; flashbang; georgia; grenade; jackbootedthugs; jbt; joeyterrell; letthelawsuitsfly; noknockraid; notmyfault; oops; raid; swat; swatnazi; trt; tyranny; wod
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To: MrB

The woman who ran over and killed my biker friend successfully sued his widow for *her* psychological distress.

If he’d not been there for her to run down, she’d not be suffering so.

It is a fupped uck world.


81 posted on 06/02/2014 10:13:29 PM PDT by Salamander (It's a cult and they worship blue oysters!)
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To: Ingtar

There is NO excuse for what these militant cops did. They are suppose to protect and serve. The protect part means you don’t throw grenades into a playpen and you make sure the person you are actually looking for is at the location. They could have took him without risking harm to others. But that would have taken effort and would have kept them from playing with their toys.


82 posted on 06/02/2014 11:03:08 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: KarlInOhio

I just don’t see why they had to go in so heavy. So either they have watched to much television or something is missing from the story.


83 posted on 06/03/2014 4:38:47 AM PDT by defconw (Well now what?)
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To: LevinFan
Then walk away smiling at the thousands of dollars of drugs making a sewer gator happy.

Apparently they get a bigger smile (or something) from blindly throwing a grenade into a home.

84 posted on 06/03/2014 6:16:01 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Lil Flower

Remember: “to protect and serve” does not state Whom or What is being protected and served.

Too many people assumed it was those paying the officers’ salaries.

Were this true, we wouldn’t be at this point today.


85 posted on 06/03/2014 7:07:10 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
A chief assistant district attorney for the county, J. Edward Staples, says the target of the warrant could in fact be charged for the injuries the sheriff's deputies caused the toddler.

The guy wasn't even there, and the JBT's want to charge him with the Toddler's injuries to cover up their crappy police work and gross negligence. Can anyone say 'above the law'? They sure think they are...this is beyond the pale.



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86 posted on 06/03/2014 7:34:55 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: driftdiver

That was before a Georgia State Legislator called BS and asked for a Federal probe:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/02/toddler-injured-flash-grenade-raid/9893021/


87 posted on 06/03/2014 7:46:02 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Regardless of the officers intent...you lob a freaking grenade into a home and injure a child, you are to be held responsible.


88 posted on 06/03/2014 9:16:25 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Altariel

FU Serif.

Bastuhd

Hold your people accountable.

They didn’t do their job properly.

Charge them with the crime they committed


89 posted on 06/03/2014 9:54:16 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

They are armed to the teeth with weapons, armor, immunity, pensions, and bennies. This costs a lot of money, liberty, and lives. The excess could probably be replaced with a couple of intelligent, well-paid, agents that are held to the highest Constitutional standards, and who personally fund their own retirement plans; i.e., no special immunity, no pensions, no stupidity.


90 posted on 06/03/2014 11:03:22 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Altariel

My prayers that he goes to hell?


91 posted on 06/03/2014 12:15:36 PM PDT by nomad
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To: bamahead

Senator Fort is a camera hound who has little credibility in Georgia government.


92 posted on 06/03/2014 12:54:51 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: servantboy777

Responsibility dies not apply to knights of the realm.

Now, Peasant, if you throw a grenade into a house and injure s child, well see to it that you are out away for attempted murder.

Get used to it. One law for thee, another for he.

</sarc>


93 posted on 06/03/2014 3:52:45 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

#YHGTBKM


94 posted on 06/03/2014 9:19:46 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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