Posted on 07/16/2014 5:40:46 AM PDT by csvset
All civil rights violations are serious business. However, this violation of the 4th amendment involves armed goons in the dead of night, which could have very easily gotten an innocent man killed. After this innocent man was killed, all the cops would go home safe to their families and suffer little to no consequences for murdering him in his own home.
if they were cops... on legal business... they should’ve knocked on the front door and announced themselves.
if that was my situation, having the family secured upstairs as best i can and holding the bottom of the stairs, i would be fully defensive and any actions would be swift and decisive.
i would not give a warning. the warning was the locked door.
when facing multiple assailants, surprise is your friend. make the first and second shots count and the odds can quickly shift in your favor.
adding confusion to the situation with distractions can give you the advantage.
you know the terrain, they don’t. use it
Are you questioning the police, *citizen*?
Looks like someone needs a SWAT team visit.
/FR bootlicks
Civil society is broken. At any stage of this tragicomedy a judge could have had a conference with the prosecution and calmly explained... “They were at the WRONG house!”
I was being sarcastic.
“...Now I have aggregation aggravation....”
In obamas world you get disability from SSDI
Continually seeking absolute power.
I believed I have already addressed my typo. Read above.
If it was like the trial on which I was on the jury, they were cooling their heels for a half an hour while the clerk finished the paperwork and the prosecutor pushed one last plea deal before we could even start deliberating.
Putting laser sights on a person is not securing the area.
Whether I am the homeowner or perp you are just asking to get shot if you have not announced. I know where you are you may not know where I am.
Yeah, that’s me. Day late and a dollar short. =;^)
Let’s make a deal, I won’t count your human frailties but please don’t keep track of mine :)
Stupid lack of a sarcasm indicator. Someone ought to do something about that. (more sarcasm)
Done! “Sold, American!”
But then, there is this one:
“That really wasn’t explained very well, and that was a sticking point for most of us, and that wasn’t flushed out at all,” Barnes said.
Of course, I'm sure he means "fleshed", but then, it was a direct quote, so who knows?
I suspect it is just more dumbassed journalism.
I’m beginning to think that Journalism majors are folks who can’t compete in the school of Education.
Mathematics lecture for Journalism majors:
“This is a numeral seven. He do you feel about it?”
And that charge of “reckless handling of a firearm” will never go away, no matter how many times he gets it “expunged” from the record and the records of the expungements will not be available for the employers doing background checks, only the charge. That is police revenge. If they can’t get you later for numerous phoney traffic tickets, there is always that eternal blemish on your record.
No-knock raids and the subsequent killings of people and pets serve as recreation for LEOs. It is computer gaming for wannabe SEALs who lack the mental requirements of SEALs.
I sharpen a knife blade until it is ready to be honed. I then hone in on it until I have created an Euclidian plane.
A homing pigeon cares not what a Euclidian plane is. Nor do most people. Does a homing pigeon “hone in” on home, or does the homing pigeon “home in” on home?
dd, If you think the red thingies are neat, you should see the green thingies. I use both at Christmas time to create a light display amid the snow flakes. Nor do homing pigeons care about that.
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