Fine lessons we're teaching our children these days.
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Posted on 05/15/2014 3:28:51 PM PDT by bamahead
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A SWAT team raids a Kalamazoo family home looking for drugs, but turns up empty handed.
It happened last Thursday at a house on Southworth Terrace.
Two young children were home at the time.
Their parents tell us, police made a mistake, and now they're left to cope with the trauma.
The family tells Newschannel 3 the man police were looking for, was renting the home nearly a year before they moved in, and they're upset police didn't do their homework before busting through their door.
"I thought it was somebody either trying to rob us, or hurt us," said Jeremy Handley.
Handley tells us after the KDPS SWAT team busted through his back door, he and his wife Becky were handcuffed and searched.
"He had me sprawl out right here on the floor, and then he had me put my hands behind my back," said Handley.
And Handley's two children, ran and hid in a bedroom closet.
"We were staying quiet, because we thought they were bad guys coming in," said 7-year-old Brenden Handley.
And your kids could see you the whole time? "My kids were sitting on that bed after they got them out of the closet," said Becky Handley.
Jeremy tells us police then ransacked his home. "Every drawer, every cabinet, every piece of paper."
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Time for legislation to hold police, district attorneys, and judges accountable.
When exactly was the Fourth Amendment changed?
Who is the warrant for, of not the one being served/searched?
What good is the warrant if the militarized stormtroopers have already kicked my door down, kicked my head in the dirt, and restrained me? Isn’t that the very process which the Brit army practiced on colonials which the founders wished to prevent?
Police NEVER are willing to take responsibility and address this issue. When a bad raid is done, they go home to steak and potatoes. Their VICTIMS go home to nightmares, PTSD, and high priced therapy for their kids.
Maybe if cops had to go home to family destroyed by this, the practice of SWATing for evidence would end.
I agree, but the odds of that happening are between slim and none. The wheels of the justice system grind slow but exceedingly fine.
Everybody involved in the raid must be sued individually. Every one of them could have taken a moment to double check everything.
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We had a SWAT team execute a homeless camper here in New Mexico not too long ago.
They were in no danger and just shot the guy in the back.
It’s beyond out of control.
My suggestion for anyone living between slim and none is to move.........
The 1970's called.
They want America back.
What, no dog to shoot?
“made a mistake”
Unacceptable. they put the innocent people in danger. They invaded their privacy. If one of them had used his right to defend himself, he would have been shot.
There is no excuse for “mistakes.”
Just more sheep training for the masses.
baaafreakingbaaa.
"We were staying quiet, because we thought they were bad guys coming in," said 7-year-old Brenden Handley.You thought right, young Mr. Handley.
This VERY BAD MAN was growing vegetables before his SWAT raid:
HEY WHAT IF EVERRRRYBODY GREW VEGETABLES...?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0bsPkDanHk
The point of the warrant isn’t to appease or inform the target. The point of a warrant is to get a third party (nevermind that the judges are in cahoots with the cops) to agree there is reasonable cause to invade a person’s home and privacy under force of violence.
No lawyer would take the suits. Cops have qualified immunity. Judges have absolute immunity. Guaranteed to be thrown out of court.
Or the joint SWAT teams from Council of Economic Advisers and the Office of National AIDS Policy? Status in DC is a private army.
Next up - private zoos and expensive fabrics...
Was the the SWAT team from the office of Official Paper Pushers?
Or the joint SWAT teams from Council of Economic Advisers and the Office of National AIDS Policy? Status in DC is a private army.
Next up - private zoos and expensive fabrics... Just when you think our ‘public servants’ can’t get any shallower...
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