Mr. Page is lucky they didn't shoot his Lab. :(
On anonymous tips, they can come in like an armed military brigade - over an unsubstaniated ‘parols violation’?
It seems these brigades now pull a full out assualt without first even doing the most curury investigation of the matter -
Truly third world.
What if Mack hadn’t been who he is and had the personal connections he did? And if he hadn’t had the smarts to make the contacts he did?
If he had opened his door and come out as instructed, he could well have ended up with lots of daylight holes in his body because some nervous gendarme with a gun trained on him thought he saw a gun or a suspicious movement? One shot shot have been followed by a volly.
Question: What parole violation, let alone from an anonymous tip, would warrent such a brigade action - and in the middle of the night?
I'd also be suspicious of - and law enforcement should consider - regarding anonymous tips - that the bad guys often make these 'tip calls' in the hopes the good guy that may be a hindrance to his activities - get taken out.
Sounds like cops from everywhere should get help from UPS or Fedex about finding the right address, they can’t seem to get the hang of it...........Repeatedly.
Try them for a crime when they break into the “wrong address” and you’ll see the number of “wrong addresses” go down real quick.
I’ve served a lot of warrants. It is not uncommon for criminals to give bad addresses. It’s not uncommon for parolees to do the same. I’ve been to many houses serving warrants where the address was bad. It’s not uncommon to go to a house with several police officers if your looking for a real bad guy.
It happens. It’s going to continue to happen. A sheriff came into my house with a warrant for the arrest of a man with the same name as me. (I was a cop at the time) Some guy used my birthday, address and committed some thefts.
He was about to put me in cuffs but had called for assistance from our police dept. An officer from my dept. looked at the warrant and cleared the mess up before I got dragged off to jail. The deputy was a little too eager to arrest me and didn’t check the social security numbers. They didn’t match.
And another thing, not all cops hate militias. Even though I’m a little past the official age, I am the militia.