Posted on 01/06/2008 2:13:20 PM PST by microgood
LIMA, Ohio — Darla Jennings walked through the streets of south Lima last night sobbing as hundreds of people behind her called for justice after the shooting of her daughter, who was killed by police as she held her baby. Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot and her 1-year-old son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night, prompting members of the black community to organize a candlelight vigil and demand answers from police. "They shot my daughter and her baby," Ms. Jennings said through tears while being consoled by other family members.
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This is a sickness, this war on drugs and justification of whatever it is the police might do in the process of enforcing it.
Simply a sickness
55% (PDF) of federal prisoners, 21% of state prisoners, 25% of jail inmates.
Sober up and you'll be impressed.
I used to think like you until it came out that the 90-something year old lady in Atlanta was made to lay down and bleed to death so that the cops could plant drugs in her basement because they had bad information. After that, and after reading the Cato Institutes web site on bad police raids, I no longer find it necessary to do paramilitary raids for a victimless crime (victimless until the cops kill a woman and blow her infant son's finger off). There are alternatives to these types of show-off police tactics.
" A major cause of the increase is the war on drugs. In 1980, says Marc Mauer, assistant director of the Sentencing Project in Washington, about 40,000 Americans were locked up solely for drug offenses. Now the number is 450,000, three-fourths of them black or Hispanic, although drug use is no higher in those groups than among whites."
-- www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0601-01.htm
450,000 out of over 2 million is about 22% -- not even close to your "most".
SWAT and other militarized “Law Enforcement” (there’s a phrase that out to give us the Orwellian creeps) agencies are the standing army our Founders feared.
“Why does the town of Lima need a SWAT team?”
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Same reason my county does. Had to figure on something to spend all those Homeland Security dollars on.
There are no mysteries here. Besides, the cops were shooting the dogs and only killed one of them. No wonder they shot a baby and killed his mother.
Why does the town of Lima need a SWAT team? There are only 40,000 people in this town.
Tyranny won’t come in a US military uniform, it will come with a local agency patch on the shoulder.
Look dead,
I didn’t say the woman deserved to die.
I said was was responsible.
Had she not allowed drugs in to her home she would not have had the cops show up in the fashion they did.
Had she been a good mom taking care and protecting her children she’d be fine.
Most probably the person responsible for the dope should have been arrested outside the home with little rancor.
Like I said, typical from you...
Overall, it’s 22%. (post #106)
Or Buckley himself on the cover of his book?
The processes of mind that continue to mislead police agencies into making armed raids of buildings full of children have got to be related to something they eat ~ maybe doughnuts?!
They get themselves hyped up on adrenalin and sugar, and roll over that 170mg/ml blood sugar level and their brains go blank.
I never advocated her killing. What I said was she is responsible.
She allowed illegal drugs in to her home with all these children.
As a mother she didn’t do her job which is to provide for and protect her kids.
Do I like all these swat teams all over the place? No.
Do I advocate killing folks using illegal drugs? don’t be rediculous.
Yep... You have no argument, so you accuse me of being a drug user. Even after I clearly stated I wasn’t. Look up the definition of “libel” before you continue posting...
:Great there pal, let’s just have moms allow crack into their homes with loads of babies. This mom wasn’t doing her job which is to provide for and protect her many babies.”
LIKE I SAID, If the authorities cant keep drugs out of prison, why do we expect a mom to be able to keep them out of her house? As**ole!
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