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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 familys 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 familys 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, Armans 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.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Maybe they can kill some children next time
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Just wonderful.
What's happened to our country?
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Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)How many cops have been killed by a dog in the last five years?
Iggo
(47,548 posts)They're the best!
Arkansas Granny
(31,514 posts)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 cant 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/
lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)That's not all.
Baitball Blogger
(46,699 posts)if it hasn't already.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)Scarred for life.
Orrex
(63,200 posts)Think of the lives that might otherwise have been lost.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)See? The system works!
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)and idiot politicians who allow the "war" on some drugs.