This was not a case of the Swat Team going to the wrong address. David Hook’s truck (article says SUV, but I heard a truck) and a number of guns were stolen from his house the day before and reported to the sheriff. They caught the guy who did it, a known bad guy, who explained that the drugs were in the truck when he stole it (or in another car at the house and he stole the drugs from the other car).
In any event, on the bad guy’s word, the county launched a raid the next night and killed Hooks. My sources told me that he was a nice, well respected, building contractor and farmer. This could happen to any of us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/david-hooks-georgia_n_5961842.html
“This could happen to any of us.”
THIS is what I’m trying to say to the FR members who defend every police officer in every situation, even with video in their faces.
It could be YOU or your brother or Uncle after a few drinks saying something stupid to the police and getting a boot on his head or choked to death, or the police messing up an address or some SWATting teenager playing videogames with your kid who sends this crowd to YOUR house.
It could be ANY of us and this is why we have Constitutional limits on State actors.
I remember this story and I will say the same thing as before
They ALL Belong on Death Row, including the Judge that signed the order