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

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

AZGrizFan wrote:

Pwns wrote: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 wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
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 wrote:

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

Maybe.

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.

AZGrizFan wrote:

Pwns wrote: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?

Chizzang wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
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

Rob Iola wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
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.

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

Skjellyfetti wrote:damnit... JSO... why did you have to go there?

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Skjellyfetti wrote:damnit... JSO... why did you have to go there?

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