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Bad information leads police to wrong house; bullets fly
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | December 16, 2007 | Patrick Kennedy

Posted on 12/17/2007 8:37:42 AM PST by Ken H

Police blamed bad information for sending a SWAT team into a north Minneapolis house early Sunday morning in a raid that ended with shots exchanged between police -- who were struck by bullets -- and the resident, who said he was just defending his family.

The homeowner, who does not speak English, told his brother that he thought the police were the "bad guys" after they broke through the back door of the house, where he lives with his wife and six children. He fired and hit two police officers, who were not injured thanks to their bullet-proof vests and helmets, police said in a statement.

The Police Department's SWAT team was trying to search the two-story house at 12:46 a.m. in the 1300 block of Logan Avenue N., as part of an investigation by the Violent Offender Task Force. But police said that they learned later that bad information led them to that house.

"It was found out that this particular address was not part of that long-term investigation," police spokesman Sgt. Jesse Garcia III told KSTP-TV on Sunday. He told KMSP-TV that it was a "bad situation."

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Vang and his children, who range in age from 3 to 15, were shaken, Dao Vang said. "All these gunshots in the house. They don't know what's going on. Flying bullets in the house and they just cried," he said.

Garcia told KMSP that police grabbed the family's children and shielded them during the incident.

Garcia did not return repeated calls from the Star Tribune on Sunday. Questions about the shooting on Sunday night were referred to Lt. Amelia Huffman, head of the homicide unit, who also did not return calls.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badcopnodonut; banglist; donttasemebro; donutwatch; swat
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To: Squantos

Hey, it’s “good enuff for goobermint werk!”


121 posted on 12/17/2007 5:51:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

“Minneapolis Police Apologize For Errant Raid That Led To Gunfire”

http://www.startribune.com/local/12578176.html


122 posted on 12/17/2007 6:37:20 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Ken H; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allerious; ...
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
123 posted on 12/17/2007 6:37:35 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: Ken H

This is laid at the door of the USSC. They need to rule these raids unconstitutional (and they have not to this point they have protected them) unless someones life is in danger. No other reason to raid a home. I do not care if a drug dealer get away. They can arrest these people at another time. I do not want anymore WACO’S. This really makes me angry and fearful. It happen way to often.


124 posted on 12/17/2007 7:55:04 PM PST by therut
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To: Travis McGee

“(Nothing gets a cat out of a tree like a $5,000 SWAT sniper rifle.)”

ROTFLMAO!!!

“MY kitty is in the twee!”

“Stand back, ma’am, we’ll get it.”


125 posted on 12/17/2007 9:04:34 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: MEGoody

The middle of the night confusion is one of the reasons warrants are served then. They hope the person being sought will be half asleep and cooperative.

In the middle of the night in the dark, with the recent rash of home invasions, I might close the door and shoot through it rather than wait to see who it is at the risk of my life.


126 posted on 12/17/2007 11:01:27 PM PST by Starwolf
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To: CodeToad
“Ma’am, we appreciate your concern, but officer safety is our top priority when handling an Emergency Arboreal Feline Extraction. Now ma’am, I’m going to have to ask you not to bump into my shooting bench again, or you will be arrested for interfering with a police operation.”
127 posted on 12/18/2007 4:46:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: papertyger

“Police are always going to be following orders from higher up,”

Sure, until you start taking their homes, cars, retirement savings and anything else of value they have and dumping them and their families in the street. That happens once or twice and all this crap will cease.


128 posted on 12/18/2007 6:05:54 AM PST by VRing (Happiness is a perfect sling bruise.)
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To: clamper1797
All joking aside ... whether you’re for the WOsD or not ... IMHO there is NO amount of illegal drugs that justifies this type of paramilitary action against citizens of this country ... guilty or not. If the amount of drugs in question is flushable in the time it takes to serve a warrant PROPERLY ... it ain’t worth the chance of hurting an innocent. Bears repeating.
129 posted on 12/18/2007 10:15:57 AM PST by Titan Magroyne ("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
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To: Vaquero

I just saw the home owner (shooter, victim) on the local news, making a statement. In English. Pretty good English, at that. Now, I’m not saying that because he speaks English that he should have known what was going on. He reacted the same way I probably would. But, in situations like this, the local victim advocates are always rushing to tell the media that so-and-so doesn’t speak English and the system is screwed up and it’s my fault and we need to raise taxes so that everybody gets training in all of the foreign languages that are spoken in the Twin Cities.

Rant over.


130 posted on 12/18/2007 5:27:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Squantos

Squantos, it would not surprise me if tThe Girl Guides had a SWAT, or for that matter The Knights of Columbus. As far as NOAA goes, someone has to stand up against atmospheric crimes!


131 posted on 12/18/2007 6:27:33 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Round up the Dark Horses, boys. This herd of contenders ain't makin' it.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

LOL........Hot Air is a crime for the Global Warming crowd !


132 posted on 12/18/2007 6:29:19 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Squantos

Some local blog coverage/updates..........

http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/222262.html

http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/222175.html

http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/221912.html

http://joelrosenberg.livejournal.com/221469.html


133 posted on 12/19/2007 7:12:34 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Garcia told KMSP that police grabbed the family's children and shielded them during the incident.

That part is missing from updated account:

Two policemen were saved by bulletproof vests and helmets, and Mr. Khang, Ms. Moua and their children, possessing no body armor, happened to be curled in the right places to avoid the return gunfire.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1943790/posts?page=52#52

134 posted on 12/24/2007 5:12:40 PM PST by Ken H
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