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OUTRAGE OVER NEW WRONG-DOOR BLUNDER BY POLICE
New York Post ^
| May 23, 2003
| By ERIKA MARTINEZ and ED ROBINSON
Posted on 05/23/2003 2:52:51 PM PDT by EBUCK
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:13:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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May 23, 2003 -- Residents of a Bronx building are outraged after getting an unexpected morning "greeting" yesterday from a police drug squad, which burst into their homes, waved guns at children and then left after finding nothing. "At 7:50 a.m., they burst down the door to the building," said Joe Celcis, a teacher whose mother and sister live in the home.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; jackbootthugs; sorrywronghouse; wod; wodlist
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To: headsonpikes
Great income with great benefits and the best retirement going...Who cares about a few dumb ass civilians!
This WOD is directly responsible for the direspect for the law that we see so much of today.
There is one way and one way only to reduce drug abuse, and "force" will not do it.
To: dark_lord
87 year old man foolishly resists the rightful entering of his dwelling by members.......Then it will be in a couple of years for me!!!
Good post though!!!
Eaker
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posted on
05/23/2003 4:10:42 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(64,999,987 firearm owners killed no one yesterday. Somehow, it didn't make the news.)
To: mr.pink
IMHO, the degree of adversarialism that exists today between law enforcement and American citizens, and the militarization of law enforcemnt agencies, are the lasting and still evolving legacies of both Bill Clinton and Rudy Guiliani.Ruby Ridge was a Bush game.
The Us v Them attitude has existed since at least the sixties, read The Blue Knight or The Choirboys</> by Joseph Wambaugh.
To: headsonpikes
Sounds like these civilians got off easy; no one got hurt. Please explain the use of the word civilian here?
64
posted on
05/23/2003 4:22:54 PM PDT
by
FreeRadical
(GunDealers.com - Buy Guns for Your Kids. Teach them to Hate WOD PIGS)
To: EBUCK
"The cops were looking for two handguns, a pile of marijuana and evidence of a pot-selling operation."
They are risking people's lives for that?
65
posted on
05/23/2003 4:25:22 PM PDT
by
TheDon
( It is as difficult to provoke the United States as it is to survive its eventual and tardy response)
To: babaloo999
Any many departments don't require name tags when they get all dollwed up for the war. Anonymous, masked, and jackbooted. Good stuff.
66
posted on
05/23/2003 4:26:52 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: babaloo999
That's dolled.
67
posted on
05/23/2003 4:27:12 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: EBUCK
Crockett and Tubbs.
To: EBUCK
The cops were armed with a warrant that allowed them to search all the units at 3629 Olinville Ave., a four-family apartment building. How could they get a search warrant for an entire 4-apartment complex? Isn't much more specificity required? Was this supposed to be some kind of a ring with all four apartments involved? This sounds pretty "general" to me. And besides, they got the wrong place!
The cops were looking for two handguns, a pile of marijuana and evidence of a pot-selling operation. They found nothing.
Lemme get this straight. They smashed down the door and took the chance of killing somebody looking for this penny-ante stuff? What, no hostages or rapes in progress, just a few terrified "civilians"?
Whatever happened to the police politely knocking on the door, showing the warrant and doing a search without terrorizing everybody in sight? Did they think a large stash of marajuana and two guns were going to be flushed down the toilet by the time they got from the front door to the bathroom?
They don't need to be sued. They need to go to jail instead!
69
posted on
05/23/2003 4:35:04 PM PDT
by
Gritty
To: EBUCK
To: *Donut watch
Ping!!
To: EBUCK
Some day, they will do this in a 2nd Amendment loving FReepers home at 4 a.m. and we'll have to read the "tragic story" of how a "gun nut" mowed down 4 SWAT members before being killed and Ooops again, it was the wrong address.
72
posted on
05/23/2003 4:42:12 PM PDT
by
Beck_isright
(When Senator Byrd landed on an aircraft carrier, the blacks were forced below shoveling coal...)
To: Drew68
73
posted on
05/23/2003 4:49:13 PM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: Drew68
is a sarcasm tag really neccessary?No, if you need the tag, it just means they don't know you.
74
posted on
05/23/2003 4:51:24 PM PDT
by
carenot
To: headsonpikes
It pays to keep your nose clean.I think their nose was clean.
75
posted on
05/23/2003 5:08:28 PM PDT
by
carenot
To: fifteendogs
Yes! GO! GO! GO!
It's SHOWTIME!
76
posted on
05/23/2003 5:11:35 PM PDT
by
carenot
To: A CA Guy
How about that. Back-to-back screw ups.
You know any gamblers (reformed or otherwise) who will give me odds on a threepeat?
77
posted on
05/23/2003 5:15:30 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: dark_lord
Heheee!
78
posted on
05/23/2003 5:17:18 PM PDT
by
carenot
To: Servant of the Nine
I believe that the No-Knock became the norm in response to "safety concerns" expressed by cops. Some of which I can believe but hey, they're there to protect us and our rights, that's what we pay them for anyway, risk is part of the job.
79
posted on
05/23/2003 5:29:48 PM PDT
by
EBUCK
(FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
To: TheDon
Not only are they risking peoples lives they are careless in their planning when getting ready to risk peoples lives.
New JBT slogan...
"From our armory and thru your door in 30 minutes or less, or your property back!"
80
posted on
05/23/2003 5:32:44 PM PDT
by
EBUCK
(FIRE!....rounds downrange! http://www.azfire.org)
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