Right?
Doesn't that mean the Sheriff is directly responsible?
And isn't the local elective body also responsible - the ones who have fiscal responsibility - don't they share in it?
And the citizens who let this kind of police exist - responsible too.
Who was it? Campbell the sci-fi author who said we get the government we deserve?
Whether the police had any real cause or not, this is a travesty. I've heard that they've released several different versions of what happened.
This, like Waco, could have been resolved differently, if they wanted to.
I mean at Waco why didn't the sherrif just go up to the door and knock?
Ditto Randy Weaver?
This smash and bash approach, where’d it come from? TV? The movies?
There is a lawyer in Michigan, Jeffry Feiger or something, he once reduced a local DA to tears in the courtroom. A real fire breather he is. That's what this poor widow needs.
They were up to version 4 or 5 when Sheriff Dipstick told the media there would be no more answers from his department, then the next thing we know the SWAT Team has retained a lawyer...
Why? Because when you have a tool you have to use it or the funding disappears.
May be, but he is a leftist prick too.
I recall the local sheriff commented he didn't understand why the ATF stormed the compound. They simply could have nabbed him when he went out for his daily run.
Which raises the question why do SWAT teams feel the need to assault homes. Why don't they nab their suspects when they go out on errands.
The FEDS (BATF) chose instead a frontal assault of the BD "Compound" to place the agency in the best possible light to make its case for increased funding.
The local sheriff suggested that they (the FEDs) simply knock on the door. Koresh, who was aware of the FEDs interest, told the sheriff that they (the BATF) should just pay a normal visit, as BATF often do when doing inspections, but they chose instead "show time."
When is NCIS going to investigate? Oh, yeah, that's just a bunch of leftists dressed up playing "good cop."