Posted on 12/10/2011 4:26:35 PM PST by bamahead
The Minneapolis City Council approved a $1 million settlement Friday after a botched drug raid in 2010 in which an officer threw a "flash-bang" grenade into a Minneapolis apartment burning the flesh off a woman's leg.
The payout to Rickia Russell, who suffered permanent injuries, was the third largest payout for alleged Minneapolis police misconduct on record.
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On the night of Feb. 16, 2010, 18 officers were executing a search warrant on the apartment at 5753 Sander Drive based on a tip that narcotics were being sold at the address by someone named David Conley.
In what Bennett called "a cascading series of errors," a Minneapolis police SWAT team smashed down the door with a battering ram without warning, when the search warrant police had obtained required officers to announce themselves before entering.
Police had applied for a "no-knock" warrant but did not get it, Bennett said.
Police insist they shouted "search warrant" before knocking down the door, according to police reports, and say the grenade was dropped on the door threshold and not rolled toward Russell.
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Russell testified in a deposition that she heard a loud noise, the door flew open & police tossed the grenade in her direction.
"It blew up ... it was just a big boom, it was just light. The flash kind of blinded me ... There was dust."
On police orders, she lay face down on the floor and officers handcuffed her. Then she noticed her leg was burning and told Bogan, who was lying down next to her. When Bogan tried to tell officers about Russell's injuries, she said they told him to shut up.
Russell was arrested on a misdemeanor for having a "disorderly house" but never charged.
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I also usually defend the police, but not the Minneapolis Police Department. Having lived in the area, I have found them to be the most unprofessional law enforcement organization I have run into. One of their chiefs, William McManus, took the top job at the San Antonio Police Department, and he has turn out to be a total cluster****.
Other police departments in the Twin Cities area are also some real turkeys.
Shave about 1/2 sec off the yell0w lights and it should be alright in a year or so.
Prohibition must end. Meth heads deserve help not incarceration.
Seriously they are pitiful. Everybody knows that crap is poison/walking death, yet they are addicted full well knowing the reaper is running them down at full speed.
The least we can do is make it legal, and cheap so they won't murder us in our sleep to get a fix of who knows what.
Take your pick, either the crack heads, or the Po Po will kick down your door. Prohibition has got to go.
As it turned out, the house the police broke into wasn't hers: so that try at framing the victim didn't work too well.
LOL! Thanks! Now if I could only figure out which prohibited activity they were engaged in. Hmmmm...
Meth heads probably need locked up. Then, they need to be checked out by a dentist before they start choking to death on teeth that fall out during sleep.
All of the above?
Let them choose,
more meth=death,
less meth=path to freedom.
A lot of em are gonna croak. It's their choice.
The drug war is over. It was over before it started.
The drug war is simply a money making machine for all involved except the end user of the drugs. You can support it and continue the growth of the police state at the expense of the freedom of the rest of us.
I’ll take the risk of protecting myself and family from meth-heads rather than giving up my personal freedoms for your drug war.
One of my first-cousin's daughters was murdered by a meth head who then committed suicide. He blew her head off with a shotgun.
I'm not sure meth addicts are human beings.
I’m sure that and the cops could add a few on of their own.
In this country, just about anything you can imagine is now illegal. We're all criminals due to one law or another. Someday we'll start acting like it.
Probably breathing without a license.
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“...but not the Minneapolis Police Department. Having lived in the area, I have found them to be the most unprofessional law enforcement organization I have run into.”
I live right in the city of Minneapolis - albeit in the city’s relatively crime-free southwest side.
The Minneapolis Police Dept scares me - literally and figuratively. They are thugs with badges.
Their umbrella policies aren’t in force if they intentionally break the law. Look it up.
You might be right on that since the EPA considers CO2 a pollutant!
If I remember correctly (guys help me out), wasn’t the lefty Bouza Chief of Police of Minneapolis (and his wife was some kind of other leftist nut (back in the 70’s or 80’s.
He was a Kumbaya type of cop and a total failure. Then he went to California or some other liberal cesspool to make sure they stayed that way.
Max, you are 100% correct.
He was police chief from 1980-1989. His wife (Erica) was arrested several times for being involved in protests against Honeywell.
He was an East Coast know-it-all with an equally abrasive personality.
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