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Originally posted by riiver
reply to post by belial259
An article on another site...yahoo news maybe?...said that the person they were looking for was actually found in the apartment directly upstairs.
Let me drag you into reality: Virtually ALL cops commit perjury. That is a fact. It is known and understood, and sadly tolerated, by judges and prosecutors for rerasons that are too detailed to go into here.
Bah, Iraq, Afghanistan, now the USA...... Not like your government jackboots arnt used to killing kids is it? Lets see if they start using drones of Las Vegas.... Could see a few weddings getting smoked. Elvis has left with the building.
Originally posted by earthship35
reply to post by rcwj1975
Hey i don't usually post so i'll be brief..My question,just as it was in Waco,or Ruby Ridge.Why not arrest the person when they come out of their house?Or at the market or at a store..etc..It seems crazy to me that you would delebritetly break into the one place where that person knows better than you.He will come out eventually and when he does get him.Even if you were to say well he's never coming out as he has someone else get his stuff.Grab her then wait till he get's hungry and nab him then.No exuce for ever entering a house with kids...ever.
Originally posted by N.of norml
Originally posted by rcwj1975
reply to post by Major Discrepancy
Good input and correct...but your assuming the child was shot with the M&P pistol...ever consider the shot came from an MP5, M4, or other long gun? Officer flips the safety off to make entry and gets into scuffle without flipping it back to safe...from there...a whole lot can go wrong. Who is to say EITHER of them pulled the trigger...if the safety was off the weapon, during the struggle, could of caught a piece of his tac vest and went off.....SOOOO many things people..so many....and EXPERIENCE has shown me many of them!
[edit on 5/16/2010 by rcwj1975]
rcw you know I appreciate your candor and accountability shown through your posts. I have however to ask, just what justification is there for taking a long gun into a confined space like a home for a domestic policing? The rounds from a MP5 an M4 or such have the capacity to not only penetrate the walls of the suspect home but the next door neighbors also.
I own a handgun( .480 Ruger) which is more than adequate to stop ANY suspect and can easily CONTROL it. So if I as a citizen have adequate firepower to control any confined situation with plenty of stopping power, why are these men entering a confined area with clumsier weapons with extreme overkill of firepower?
You know a similar raid occurred in my area and the police went into an older mobile home with "long guns" and while shooting the pet they accidentally destroyed an innocent house guests intestines through the wall. Oh and never found the man they went in for....Overkill, literally
The list of Accidents is getting too long to keep calling them accidents rather than failed enforcement policies and over zealous execution of same.
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Originally posted by NightGypsy
reply to post by Master Shen long
Bah, Iraq, Afghanistan, now the USA...... Not like your government jackboots arnt used to killing kids is it? Lets see if they start using drones of Las Vegas.... Could see a few weddings getting smoked. Elvis has left with the building.
Wow, now that statement really has opened my eyes regarding this Detroit police raid. Insightful, while introducing terminology that is new to me, like "jackboots." I wish you could elaborate a bit more on what you mean by "could see a few weddings getting smoked." And could you also touch on why Elvis, Vegas, Iraq, or Afghanistan are relevant? Thanks in advance.