Posted on 10/23/2014 7:31:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The New Haven SWAT team must have been pretty amped up: It was midnight, and they were getting ready to bust down the door of a man wanted on charges involving weapons violations, robbery — and murder. They were not sure how many people were in the house, or how they’d react. After a volley of flash grenades that set fire to the carpet and a sofa, they moved in, guns drawn. A minute later, they had their man zip-tied on the floor.
If only they’d double-checked the address first.
Bobby Griffin Jr. was wanted on murder charges. His next-door neighbor on Peck Street, Joseph Adams, wasn’t. But that didn’t stop the SWAT team from knocking down his door, setting his home on fire, roughing him up, keeping him tied up in his underwear for nearly three hours, and treating the New Haven man, who is gay, to a nance show as officers taunted him with flamboyantly effeminate mannerisms. If the events detailed in Mr. Adams’s recently filed lawsuit are even remotely accurate, the episode was a moral violation and, arguably, a crime....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Jack booted thugs on parade.
Aren't there laws against that?
Laws are for the little people.
If the police had done this to a straight man in front of his family, and shot his dog, it would have been just a "my bad" event. However, they mocked a gay man. They are in big trouble!
Yah, I’ve found that the local cops are largely above the law, but arson would be a new add....
Wow. Great article.
Wow. Great article.
BTT. An article to make you blood boil.
Is this the end result of high schools graduating students who can’t read or cypher numbers very well?
Really, what is the big deal? They try to follow most of the laws /s
Shut up, slave!
Ping!
From the article:
After a volley of flash grenades that set fire to the carpet and a sofa, [...]
That might mean only that the carpet was singed a little, and that the sofa cover got a little burned - maybe smouldering for a few minutes, before extinguishing itself. NOT necessarily that it was a flaming conflagration which razed his house to the ground.
Regards,
THAT's very reassuring.............
It seems we will all have to use Common Core approved address signs for the idiots graduating from poh-lees academy.
Have you ever been accused of missing the point and making excuses that make no sense? If not, let me be the first...
James Otis warned us, all those years ago.
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