Couple seeks damages after police raid wrong house

Henry Daily Herald ^ | 6-8-06 | By Michael Davis

[The Red Zone]

Permit the government to countersue the dealer to make it up if the wrongly raided couple wins. Will that make everybody happy?

[The Red Zone]

I had the cops pull me over with guns everywhere because there was once a robbery and a car just like mine was involved in the robbery. They mistaken me at first and they had to verify who I was or was NOT. I didn't cry, go get an ambulance chaser and attempt to take the public's tax money for millions and a lottery pay day.

Because you weren't mentally damaged (well maybe, actually you were) you can't pass judgment on this couple without seeing their case.

[The Red Zone]

Oh, and were there not just "guns everywhere" but a hooded figure with no badge pointing a weapon at your head causing you to think that you may end up dead from the situation? This kind of terror happens to car "accident" victims too, and the at fault party often has to pay through the nose if it does.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Lord God sits upon His throne. I am in prayer that justice will be done.

[RedStateRocker]

It should, as with *ANY* penalty, be something-anything- that ensures 100% chance it will never be repeated. IMHO that is the only criteria for an appropriate punishment. A few years hard labor for the officers in charge and anyone who could possibly have prevented this. At the very least I consider it attempted murder, as if someone came through my door without warning the only question would be if I used my Colt 357, 12 gauge or 300 win magnum; Somebody would have died, maybe me, thus attempted murder (I don't believe in degrees of such a crime- you took actions that might, conceivably led to the death of an innocent party it's attempted murder in my book. But since I don't believe in reform or redemption the only purposes of the law are retribution and prevention.

[RedStateRocker]

If you carry a gun you are not allowed to make a mistake. If you can't be ALWAYS right as far as how and when you use force, you should not be allowed to use or have any access to force.

Government is not the solution, government is the problem
-Ronald Reagan

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are some nuts who think that any effective blowback will paralyze all policing -- nonsense. This was as egregious an error as driving down the wrong side of the highway.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Permit the government to countersue the dealer to make it up if the wrongly raided couple wins. Will that make everybody happy?

Aw, that's way too reasonable. No joy for the yobs who want to shove their machismo down the throat of genuine victims. They'll never buy it.

[R. Scott]

Police later raided the next-door home of Scott McIntyre, where they found sophisticated surveillance equipment and several hundred dollars worth of methamphetamine and other drugs. McIntyre and two other men, Michael Daniel Camp and Christopher Irvin Gaddy, were arrested on drug charges.

Henry County Police Chief Russell Abernathy was reported to have said at the time that the incident was “inexcusable” and that steps would be taken to ensure a similar incident doesn’t occur in the future.

Steps would be taken to ensure a similar incident doesn’t occur in the future – like checking the house number before smashing doors and tossing grenades.

[R. Scott]

Must have been one damn nice door.

It must have been so damned nice the police couldn’t read the house number.

[HiTech RedNeck]

(well maybe, actually you were)

Meow!

[Gaffer]

Thanks, sorry for the bite-back....

[A CA Guy]

They are attempting a quick lottery win in a civil suit that they want awarded with out public tax dollars.

It's about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

There was no physical damage and the only mental problems for them would be if they can not get a big fat pay day for suing officers who were attempting to do their job in good faith.

Let them sue the druggie neighbor who brought the criminality to the neighborhood.

[A CA Guy]

So let them sue the druggie who brought the issue to the neighborhood.
The guy probably is Libertarian chapter President and they can go sue them also.

[RedStateRocker]

As with the Ford Pinto case, the point is to level a punitive damage award that is so large that it permanently affects the future actions of similar parties. With the Pinto, the attitude of the defendants was "it's cheaper to have a few people die than it is to correct the problem"; to correct *THAT* attitude took a megabucks judgment of the sort that gets headlines and strikes the same fear into those in charge that a few good crudcfixions and heads on a spike would if only such punishments were applied to child molesters and carjackers.

With the anti-drug zealots and other, similar big brother types it's "well, john and Mary Citizen may get accidentally terrorized once in a while BUT it's worth it in the big picture". The fact that some aggrieved party ends up with a major amount of money is secondary, the point is to (as it should be with any punishment) create shock, fear and awe that forever causes any potential perpetrator to completely rethink their actions and re-check their facts.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Well, they're not hired for high IQs

[R. Scott]

…that forever causes any potential perpetrator to completely rethink their actions and re-check their facts.

Yea – like checking house numbers.

[RedStateRocker]

Yea – like checking house numbers

As Mark Twain observed:
"Thank God we *DON'T* get all the government we pay for".

[R. Scott]

Sam had his stuff together.

[The Red Zone]

What made you familiar with their mental state?