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Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 09:50 AM Jul 2014

SWAT Unit Kills Two Dogs, Finds Little Evidence In ‘No-Knock’ Raid

every day a new disgusting story.






Instead of leaving with the drugs and weapons they were sent to find, a Minnesota SWAT team executed a “no-knock raid” that left a family’s two dogs dead.

“The first thing I heard was ‘boom,’” Larry Lee Arman told KMSP, recalling the raid which occurred in St. Paul at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.

“Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Right in front of us.”

Equipped with a warrant for drugs and weapons, the SWAT unit barged in while Arman was asleep on a mattress with his two children, shooting Mello and Laylo, the family’s two pit bulls.

“One was running for her life, and they murdered her right here,” Arman said, with his dogs’ blood still on his sneakers.

“I was laying right here, and I really thought I was being murdered.”

Camille Perry, Arman’s girlfriend and the mother of his two children, was in the bathroom when the SWAT unit broke down her door. She expressed anger that the kids could have been injured.

“The only thing I was thinking was my kids were going to get hit by bullets,” she told KMSP.


According to the station, the SWAT unit was executing a search warrant for weapons and drugs. After the shooting and a search of the house, the police unit recovered none of one and very little of the other, finding a small amount of marijuana residue, some clothing, and a bong.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/09/swat-unit-kills-two-dogs-finds-little-evidence-in-no-knock-raid/#ixzz374cN8ndx






cops are out of control.


RIP little innocent doggies that didnt deserve to die for a plant.

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SWAT Unit Kills Two Dogs, Finds Little Evidence In ‘No-Knock’ Raid (Original Post) Garion_55 Jul 2014 OP
... xchrom Jul 2014 #1
Such Good Cops - we need more like them FreakinDJ Jul 2014 #2
Fabulous MannyGoldstein Jul 2014 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author damnedifIknow Jul 2014 #4
Today's trivia question for the defenders of these "public servants" Savannahmann Jul 2014 #5
Yay, Cops! Iggo Jul 2014 #6
I hear more and more about SWAT teams being used for this type of search. Arkansas Granny Jul 2014 #7
... executing a search warrant. lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #8
"No Knock" is eventually going to be abused by someone in power, Baitball Blogger Jul 2014 #9
I know everybody is pissed about the dogs, but what about the kids. progressoid Jul 2014 #10
Obviously worth it for a small amount of pot. Orrex Jul 2014 #11
fuck tha police frylock Jul 2014 #12
"Finding some marijuana residue, some clothing, and a bong" Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #13
Here's a video on this damnedifIknow Jul 2014 #14
kick Liberal_in_LA Jul 2014 #15
Idiot cops tabasco Jul 2014 #16

Response to Garion_55 (Original post)

 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
5. Today's trivia question for the defenders of these "public servants"
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 10:09 AM
Jul 2014

How many cops have been killed by a dog in the last five years?

Arkansas Granny

(31,514 posts)
7. I hear more and more about SWAT teams being used for this type of search.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jul 2014

It's over the top, to say the least, but I guess they have to do something to justify their increasing budgets for personnel and military grade weaponry.

These stories are becoming all too familiar and it's not only dogs who are being killed or injured because of these no-knock warrants issued for small amounts of drugs, or no drugs at all.

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/gbi-now-investigating-botched-habersham-county-dru/ngDCG/

The investigation into the botched drug raid that left a baby critically injured is growing to include state and federal authorities.

“As a parent, I can’t imagine the horrible nightmare that this family is enduring,” said U.S. Attorney Sally Yates on Tuesday. “Federal and state authorities are coordinating to get to the bottom of what happened.”

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Tuesday that at the request of the district attorney it would investigate whether narcotics officers violated the law in executing a controversial “no-knock” search warrant last Wednesday.

Meanwhile civil rights advocates delivered a letter to Yates asking that federal authorities investigate whether the rights of 19-month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh and his family were violated in the highly aggressive search that yielded no drugs, no drug dealer and no weapons. It was unclear how active a role federal authorities would play.

(emphasis mine)


http://justiceforbabyboubou.com/

Orrex

(63,200 posts)
11. Obviously worth it for a small amount of pot.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 11:23 AM
Jul 2014

Think of the lives that might otherwise have been lost.

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