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-Land of the Free
Iowa homeowners terrorized by swat police
2014-02-05
Police militarization.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  That seems to be what they're expecting, B. They'll all be heroes, I guess!

Except the homeowner...
Posted by: Bobby   2014-02-05 15:46  

#7  How long until we ready about a SWAT stack breaking down some old timer's door and being met by a magazine of 30.06 armor piercing ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-02-05 14:51  

#6  Yeah, but those "police" announced themselves before they got Bogarted.
Posted by: Bobby   2014-02-05 14:46  

#5  Treasure of the Sierra Madre Iowa Same effect...

Posted by: Mad Eye Brown4699   2014-02-05 14:11  

#4  The police that planned and ran this raid should have their badges taken away and made civilians.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-02-05 13:24  

#3  The department says it does not have an SOP for a search/raid? Bull. This is not something obscure like an aquarium fire, this is part of the job description requiring the purchase of expensive equipment and training hours. They look a tad disorganized but not untrained.

So, what are the operating procedures of the facility they trained at?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-02-05 12:49  

#2  More troubling still, youÂ’ll see not one but two officers attempt to prevent the family from having an independent record of the raid, one by destroying a surveillance camera, another by blocking another cameraÂ’s lens.

The civil jury shouldn't have long to reach an award decision just based upon that act alone. Can you say 'LOTTO' boys and girls?

Obviously, states have failed to institute ROEs for these wannabees. Long past the time that controls be put in place requiring something like the state AGs offices to grant authorization in other than very few and specific circumstances. Lie on an affidavit in rationalizing a raid that doesn't meet the few and specific should suspend the operation for months and terminate those who made false statements.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-02-05 09:15  

#1  Recent news on a related topic:
HONOLULU -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii on Monday that the nation's highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but he wouldn't be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict.

Scalia was responding to a question about the court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the convictions of Gordon Hirabayashi and Fred Korematsu for violating an order to report to an internment camp.

"Well of course Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again," Scalia told students and faculty during a lunchtime Q-and-A session.

Scalia cited a Latin expression meaning, "In times of war, the laws fall silent."

"We have always been at war..." -- George Orwell
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2014-02-05 07:56  

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