[bamahead]

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He Shot a Police Officer During Late-Night Raid at His Home — Why a Jury Just Found Him Not Guilty on All Counts

[logi_cal869]

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I still support cops; I just don’t support all of them. Picking out the good ones is next to impossible these days.

But what gets missed in these incidents is attention on those that sent these officers in like this. The ‘ranking officials’ make the policies (no-knock) and the Prosecutors make the ‘snitch’ deals that result in these heavy-handed raids for a gram, a gun and a bust to make another Prosecutor’s ‘win’ file and close an investigator’s caseload. It’s really a problem of the culture of ‘closing cases’ and the ‘snitch factor’ (which I’ve commented on prior).

I’d want to see the warrant. If this wasn’t about the welfare of the child, then it’s endemic and certainly not going away anytime soon, as it’s only the latest in a long list of these incidents.

I wrote earlier of the morale of certain Federal agencies (lousy, was my insinuation); I can’t imagine the morale at many police depts these days...where was that recent ‘sick-out’? Eh, Memphis...but I think the point is made...

[Vendome]

They found “methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and firearms” in the house?

Uhmm soh!!!

What does that have to with the warrant?

besides, the first two items belong to the cops.

can’t see giving away my private stash to make a point but, it’s their junk.

[zeugma]

Thanks. We need more of these. No-knock warrants are an anathema to the Constitution. A free people would not stand for it.

[hattend]

Prosecutor Steve Spier argued it’s implausible that trained police officers would risk their lives...

Maybe they shouldn't be breaking down doors at 3AM.