In 2008 I was 17 and living in an apartment with my single mother. My father was in prison where he belonged.
One fine morning at around 4am a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Dept. SWAT team broke down our door and held my mother and I at gunpoint while they searched the house (and destroyed furniture and etc. because they could). The SWAT team, we were told, was necessary because my father was a known felon. I knew that because I was the victim who testified against him.
And it’s time to say again that at this time my father was in prison.
We were told that they did not need a warrant because it was a social services issue. Later that day a social worker took me out of the apartment because the SWAT team had destroyed it and it was unlivable. See how that logic worked? They busted in without a warrant, destroyed the place, and that was a social services issue which justified why they broke in.
In any case and in response to your post: Why did a SWAT team in black uniforms with automatic weapons need to violently break into our home when they could have shown up at 7am, knocked on the door, and we’d have let them in?
So, sorry, I’m not a fan of SWAT teams being misused and I am less a fan of social workers.
I wish you would post your story on every thread.
There are people here who desperately need to hear these stories like yours. Thank you for telling it.
This problem MUST be fixed. Or America is done.
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
http://www.cato.org/raidmap
No one can condone what the SWAT team did you to and your family. However, I do not understand what that has to do with the apparel that the police use in a riot control situation.
> So, sorry, I’m not a fan of SWAT teams being misused and I > am less a fan of social workers.
I couldn’t agree MORE!
The most INSANE thing in what is supposed to be a free country is “no knock” warrants with militarized SWAT teams.
“No knock” is ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL! (4th Amendment)
The ability of social workers to take action without a court finding is ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL.