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Militarized police overreach: “Oh, God, I thought they were going to shoot me next”
Salon ^
| July 10, 2013
| By Radley Balko
Posted on 07/12/2013 12:28:18 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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Part I of this review and excerpt was posted by Renfield July 7:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3040669/posts
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
07/12/2013 12:37:04 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Makes me want to build my next house like a fort. Concrete walls, ballistic resistant glass and breach resistant door.
To: Brad from Tennessee
Oh, God, I thought they were going to shoot me next
4
posted on
07/12/2013 12:41:59 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Harriet Meiers is looking pretty good right about now.)
To: taxcontrol
Makes me want to build my next house like a fort. Concrete walls, ballistic resistant glass and breach resistant door.
To heck with that...
Buy an old missile silo, fortify the heck outta it, drill a well inside it for both fuel and water. Raise a garden on several levels, and make it all fully self sufficent.
In 1,000 years have your decendants take over after nature has healer up the mess the socialists made...
May want to bring enough familes down there to ensure a properly branching family tree....
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posted on
07/12/2013 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Brad from Tennessee
A long but very important read. It makes me wonder how often SWAT is being used for routine police work in my city.
To: GraceG
Better.
Best:
Get the Mirved Minuteman, set the target list for state Capitol and law enforcement offices, and hook the thing up to a dead-man switch.
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posted on
07/12/2013 12:57:55 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
To: Brad from Tennessee
They had their black-on-black uniforms. All you could see were their eyeballs. As good a target as any I suppose.
To: Brad from Tennessee
I see the guy settled his lawsuit in 2011, got an unnamed amount, plus some reform in the state. Doesn’t seem to have helped much though.
To: Brad from Tennessee
I suppose one day there will be a firefight with some overzealous LEO’s who raid a property and then get their butts handed to them.
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:07:14 PM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(The Lefties can drink Kool-Aid; I will drink Tea.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Maybe the Berwyn Heights police department should return the favor to the Prince George County Police Department.
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:07:56 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Inside were the couple, a twenty-eight-year-old houseguest, their two teenage sons, and their sons friend. The police first met the family dog, a twelve-year-old lab/rottweiler mix named Grunt. According to the lawsuit, one officer distracted the dog while another shot it point-blank in the head. When one of the couples sons asked why they had shot the dog, one officer pointed his gun at the boys head and said, Ill blow your fucking head off if you keep talking.
Oops, sorry for the mistake, folks. Have a nice day.
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:08:33 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Officer Friendly needed a hug that particular day.
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:12:46 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Looks like this trend may be one of the few righties and lefties can agree on opposing.
Like the Kelo decision.
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:17:05 PM PDT
by
gibsosa
To: Brad from Tennessee
Also brings up an obvious way to cause trouble for someone you don’t like.
FedEx them a package with something illegal in it, then rat them out anonymously to the cops.
To: Telepathic Intruder
I am not surprised at sociopathic behavior from state officials anymore.
To: VRW Conspirator
Shoot first, ask questions later. After all, that’s their philosophy. Embrace it.
How am I supposed to know that shiny uniform isn’t fake?
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:23:03 PM PDT
by
Crazieman
(Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
To: darkangel82
I think they actually recruit for it these days, and further instill it by training them to be paranoid of everything.
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:31:51 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: VRW Conspirator
You mean like what happened at Mt. Carmel outside of Waco?
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posted on
07/12/2013 1:34:39 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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