Posted on 02/13/2019 4:43:46 AM PST by marktwain
All of a sudden none of the little piglets wanna be the guy on the ram?
You get all the adrenaline of war and still get to go home at night. You get to dress like Seal Team but not have to measure up like Seal Team. You know, you want the power of war without the full risks and challenges of war.
My father actually landed at Normandy and fought across Europe. As a police officer he became horrified in his later years as to how law enforcement began to see their own communities. In later years, Vets who joined the force didn't have the same perspective that he did as to what becoming a military in your own town did to the community. He saw it first hand in Europe and rejected it.
anybody can yell anything... defense inside one’s home is one’s right, no matter who is breaking down the door and yelling whatever they wish to get the upper hand.
it is a shame that a police officer was killed, but they brought it on themselves. surround the house and identify yourself then. wait for him to come out.
Anyone can say they are cops...
So? Doesn't mean he did.
THE GUY was wanted on narcotics and weapons trafficking.
Marijuana is not a narcotic. Article also goes on to say he was selling firearms at gunshows.
The police could have picked him up multiple times without having to break in his front door.
Sure, better she back up the story. Now ask yourself why would anybody - short of being insane or fleeing a murder rap - shoot at cops coming through the door.
None of the officers I worked for exhibited this kind of attitude or behavior.
Granted, like I said, it was more than a few years ago.
They could have followed him in an unmarked police vehicle and picked him up at 7-11.
He's facing hundreds of years in prison if he pleads his case to a jury. They'll make him a deal he can't refuse; go to prison for a long time, come out an old man, but at least you'll come out.
They don't want these cases in front of juries.
Sounds like the cops watch too much TV.......
And this is indeed a problem. They can relabel things to “justify” their position and they do. I had a friend who was served a warrant and had his whole “arsenal” confiscated. When they staged the press photo of his “arsenal” to put in the local paper they did everything they could to make it appear as ominous as possible.
They pulled all the rounds out of the boxes and piled them up into a mound and stacked the empty boxes up to make it look like twice as much. They added all his “legal” hunting knives and kitchen knives to this arsenal, A camping hatchet from the garage, and even added his air rifles to it.
Not one thing in that picture was illegal and the charges against him never even got past the DA because he was innocent, but that one deceptively staged photo in the paper destroyed his life. It broke him and he couldn’t afford the legal representation to get his completely legal firearms back.
He lost everything because of that deceptive photo which psychologically painted him as some kind of extremely dangerous domestic terrorist firearm dealer and axe murderer.
Drug dealer with a CCW, huh..?
Wow, that just DOES NOT compute for me.
He has such contempt for the law that he went and COMPLIED with it...?
Color me highly dubious.
That may be true, but the person breaking down your door is also responsible for what happens to himself.
Some guy breaking down your door yelling police proves absolutely nothing as regards his identity.
The no-knock warrant is no more than legal permission to forcibly enter a building and kill the enemy.
It’s unfortunate to see but this is what it is coming to. And what I noticed is these things tend to happen a lot during election time. Just got to make the papers for a job well done.
I would say he identified his target well a man that was breaking his door in after yelling, police and the no knock warrant ate the problem here.
Funny you should say that. The administrative support staff I replaced would watch soap operas all day with the unit’s TV. When I didn’t, my superiors were quite surprised I was there to earn my paycheck rather than just receive one.
I came on board, busied myself and actually found things to do. Like organize the supply cabinet and computerize the SWAT team’s operation manual. And I am dating myself but they had some funky computer and software application system. It had a “gold” key on the keyboard that allowed me to program commands. And computerizing the manual actually was quite a challenge.
Why don’t they arrest these people when the buy is being done?
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I agree.
They probably wont do it on the first buy, because they are still building the case. But run one again.
My problem with no-knock raids is that a home owner has to trust that it’s really the police, and not a home invasion where someone is yelling police.
In this case, we have a suspected drug dealer in a suburban/urban residence, not a guy and his kid in a cabin in Idaho, so it’s pretty obvious that he didn’t have a reasonable position not to believe that it’s really the police busting his door down.
I still think there have to be better ways to take down a perp
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