Police thread of the week!

[Skjellyfetti]

SWAT team breaks down doors, raids home, shoots a couple of dogs... to arrest a guy... for.....

a grinder...

a pipe...

and a small amount of marijuana...


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[Pwns]

I feel sooo much safer knowing that the SWAT team is taking care of these fiends.
F%^&ing fedgoons.

[Chizzang]

Police Department don't move...
My guess is - the dog moved

[Rob Iola]

I'm honestly having a hard time figuring out who the bad guys are here.

[grizzaholic]

I'm honestly having a hard time figuring out who the bad guys are here.

If you ask Appa, I am pretty sure he can tell you.

[AZGrizFan]

I feel sooo much safer knowing that the SWAT team is taking care of these fiends.
F%^&ing fedgoons.

They're local SWAT, not Feds.

And if dude don't want the guys in black shirts busting down his door and shooting his dog, maybe he shouldn't have broken the fucking law. Wonder if Einstein ever thought of THAT?

[Rob Iola]

I feel sooo much safer knowing that the SWAT team is taking care of these fiends.
F%^&ing fedgoons.

They're local SWAT, not Feds.

And if dude don't want the guys in black shirts busting down his door and shooting his dog, maybe he shouldn't have broken the fucking law. Wonder if Einstein ever thought of THAT?

I broke the law (repeatedly) driving in to work this morning - should I fear for my dogs?

[AZGrizFan]

They're local SWAT, not Feds.

And if dude don't want the guys in black shirts busting down his door and shooting his dog, maybe he shouldn't have broken the fucking law. Wonder if Einstein ever thought of THAT?

I broke the law (repeatedly) driving in to work this morning - should I fear for my dogs?

Maybe.

[Rob Iola]

I broke the law (repeatedly) driving in to work this morning - should I fear for my dogs?

Maybe.

And what about folks targetted by SWAT when a) they didn't break the fucking law, and b) they didn't resist arrest. Should their dogs be shot too?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02795.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Acting on a tip that a 32-pound package of marijuana had been sent by Federal Express from Arizona to Mr. Calvo's home (addressed to his wife, Trinity Tomsic), Prince George's police swung into action. Which is to say they got on the phone, calling law enforcement agencies to see who might have a SWAT team available to bust the unsuspecting Calvo family. (It seems the police department's own team was tied up.) After being turned down at least once, they finally struck a deal with the Prince George's Sheriff's Office, whose track record with domestic disputes is extensive but whose experience with drug busts is slight. And it showed.

Without bothering to alert Berwyn Heights police, sheriff's deputies moved into position. Posing as a deliveryman, a deputy took the package to the family's door. After Mr. Calvo's mother-in-law initially refused to sign for it, the package was finally taken into the home, where it sat, unopened, on the living room floor. Whereupon the deputies, guns drawn, kicked in the door, stormed the house and shot to death the Calvos' two Labrador retrievers, one of them, apparently, as it attempted to flee. The canine threat thus dispatched, the mayor -- in his briefs -- and his mother-in-law were handcuffed and interrogated in close proximity to the bloodied corpses of their dogs.

Within an hour, it seems, the police concluded that something was seriously wrong and that there was at least a strong possibility that the Calvos -- whose home contained not the slightest evidence of involvement in the drug trade -- were unsuspecting victims. The deputies left without making arrests. And yesterday, county police announced the arrest of a deliveryman and another person suspected in a scheme to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana by shipping packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients such as the Calvos.

The Post's Rosalind S. Helderman has reported that when deputies stormed the Calvo household, they didn't even have a no-knock search warrant, the tool specifically designated under Maryland law to deal with searches that police do not wish to announce because they could be dangerous. They had plain vanilla warrants to enter the house and seize the package. In other words, they should have knocked.

[dbackjon]

The SWAT team leaders need to be FIRED, and prosecuted.

[Chizzang]

I feel sooo much safer knowing that the SWAT team is taking care of these fiends.
F%^&ing fedgoons.

They're local SWAT, not Feds.

And if dude don't want the guys in black shirts busting down his door and shooting his dog, maybe he shouldn't have broken the fucking law. Wonder if Einstein ever thought of THAT?

AZ you might want to be careful with that Extra Large Self Righteousness you lug around...
There's a saying about people who are "So quick to punish" and their inability to see themselves

[GSUhooligan]

The gov't can use the same type of force if you don't pay your taxes and resist arrest. McDonalds can under no circumstance use the same force if you chose not to buy a big mac, yet we should worry about big business more.

[AZGrizFan]

They're local SWAT, not Feds.

And if dude don't want the guys in black shirts busting down his door and shooting his dog, maybe he shouldn't have broken the fucking law. Wonder if Einstein ever thought of THAT?

AZ you might want to be careful with that Extra Large Self Righteousness you lug around...
There's a saying about people who are "So quick to punish" and their inability to see themselves

You do realize that I post crap like that PURELY for YOUR entertainment, no?

[AZGrizFan]

Maybe.

And what about folks targetted by SWAT when a) they didn't break the fucking law, and b) they didn't resist arrest. Should their dogs be shot too?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02795.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Acting on a tip that a 32-pound package of marijuana had been sent by Federal Express from Arizona to Mr. Calvo's home (addressed to his wife, Trinity Tomsic), Prince George's police swung into action. Which is to say they got on the phone, calling law enforcement agencies to see who might have a SWAT team available to bust the unsuspecting Calvo family. (It seems the police department's own team was tied up.) After being turned down at least once, they finally struck a deal with the Prince George's Sheriff's Office, whose track record with domestic disputes is extensive but whose experience with drug busts is slight. And it showed.

Without bothering to alert Berwyn Heights police, sheriff's deputies moved into position. Posing as a deliveryman, a deputy took the package to the family's door. After Mr. Calvo's mother-in-law initially refused to sign for it, the package was finally taken into the home, where it sat, unopened, on the living room floor. Whereupon the deputies, guns drawn, kicked in the door, stormed the house and shot to death the Calvos' two Labrador retrievers, one of them, apparently, as it attempted to flee. The canine threat thus dispatched, the mayor -- in his briefs -- and his mother-in-law were handcuffed and interrogated in close proximity to the bloodied corpses of their dogs.

Within an hour, it seems, the police concluded that something was seriously wrong and that there was at least a strong possibility that the Calvos -- whose home contained not the slightest evidence of involvement in the drug trade -- were unsuspecting victims. The deputies left without making arrests. And yesterday, county police announced the arrest of a deliveryman and another person suspected in a scheme to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana by shipping packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients such as the Calvos.

The Post's Rosalind S. Helderman has reported that when deputies stormed the Calvo household, they didn't even have a no-knock search warrant, the tool specifically designated under Maryland law to deal with searches that police do not wish to announce because they could be dangerous. They had plain vanilla warrants to enter the house and seize the package. In other words, they should have knocked.

Holy SHIT that's funny.

The Mayor???? The fucking MAYOR???

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

Sorry I missed this the other day. That is fucking tough to watch. This shit is really getting out of hand with some of these police units.

I knew about that Mayor story and it shows how fucked their intel can be.

Even if this guy was moving some serious weight then why couldn't they have taken him when the kids are at school or they know they aren't in the house. That seems like a police unit run amok to go about the arrest that way when it is not a hostage situation. That's some totally fucked up shit.

This looks like a police video so did one of these officers think it was a shit deal and post this?

God damn that seems fucked up.

[ODUsmitty]

Prince George's police have had issues in the past with the overue of force.

Recently, a University of Maryland was beaten badly by several PG police after a basketball win vs Duke. The officers have been suspended pending investigation, which may lead to criminal charges.

I understand the police never know what is behind the door they are about to enter, and I respect the job they have to do, but this video demonstrates what most of think as police action outside of the lines.........

[JohnStOnge]

What a bunch of jerks. Exactly what I've talked about when I say the job selects for a certain type of individual. No decent person could be involved in something like that. I guess they all experienced some kind of sexual arousal while they were donning their Nazi Storm Trooper outfits. Yeah. Really "bad" aren't they. All dressed up in their Nazi outfits breaking down the door of what looks like kind of a typical family house, scaring the crap out of the kid, shooting the dog. Oh yeah. Society is SO much better off now that the heroic police officers took care of that TERRIBLY dangerous little guy in the T shirt.

Of course the larger issue is that this is what comes with the drug war. Totally contrary to what this country was supposed to be about (i.e., liberty).

[JohnStOnge]

BTW, I think police ought to be held personally accountable for property damage unless they have really strong, inassailable justification for doing it. I've had my car searched before and they broke all kinds of stuff and didn't find anything. But you just have to live with them breaking the stuff. Just doing that...making them responsible for the property damage they do...would go a long way in tempering the way they behave. In this case I don't think they needed to break down the door and I certainly don't think they needed to shoot the dog.

[JMU DJ]

A second dog, which Whitworth’s attorney Jeff Hilbrenner described as a corgi, also was shot but was not killed.

A Corgi?



... cuz that dog is going to do a lot of damage to you if it bites, especially if your wearing full SWAT gear.

[JohnStOnge]

Here we go again. Innocent man abused:

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/s ... 2F19469856" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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This goes back to something I've said before: In the United States, people are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Police should behave in a manner consistent with that outlook and when they don't the system should come down on them like a ton of bricks.

[JohnStOnge]

[AZGrizFan]

lol at this thread.

[Skjellyfetti]

damnit... JSO... why did you have to go there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rob Iola]

damnit... JSO... why did you have to go there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ah, good ol' Godwin's law! Allows me to hijack this thread AND post this goodie:
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Oh yeah, and what all you guys (and me) said about jack-booted thugs sucking hard (not cops in my book - just storm trooper wannabees)...

[JohnStOnge]

damnit... JSO... why did you have to go there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hey, it's unavoidable. There's no way you can look at the way tactical units in United States law enforcement attire themselves and not think of WWII Nazis. It just looks too similar.

Then you add to that the way they sometimes ACT; such as in the video you posted. You're seeing the same basic personality type.