A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
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Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#2This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#3This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
I'm not normally a fan of litigation, but in this case they should sue the police department into the ground. If this behaviour was way too expensive to sustain because of liabilities, they'd have to curtail it.
Complaints are something they just ignore. Settlements hurt.
If this was some national security incident where the nephew was about to activate a nuclear weapon this sort of force might be justified. That it was for drugs is the most disturbing part. How does that help anyone in any capacity?
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#4This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
Absolutely. This is the unfortunate effect of the militarisation of the police force and how ridiculous the War on Drugs has become! They were looking for drugs ...
Unfortunately South Africa's police force has also learned from the USA, as have others I see. Granted a Swat team is necessary sometimes, but overall the Police force is just becoming more indimidatory and inhumane. It's a bad trend, and a real threat to civil society.
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#5That's incredible.
What's the incidence of things like this in the rest of the world?
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#6The increasing militarization of police in the USA has seemingly had a significant (and hopefully unintended) side-effect: Police tend to treat suspects (and those around them) not as law-breaking citizens, but as enemy combatants.
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#7This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
I'm not normally a fan of litigation, but in this case they should sue the police department into the ground. If this behaviour was way too expensive to sustain because of liabilities, they'd have to curtail it. Complaints are something they just ignore. Settlements hurt . If this was some national security incident where the nephew was about to activate a nuclear weapon this sort of force might be justified. That it…
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Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#8This is truly awful. The sheer lack of restraint involved in this raid is sickening. :/
Absolutely. This is the unfortunate effect of the militarisation of the police force and how ridiculous the War on Drugs has become! They were looking for drugs ... Unfortunately South Africa's police force has also learned from the USA, as have others I see. Granted a Swat team is necessary sometimes, but overall the Police force is just becoming more indimidatory and inhumane. It's a bad trend, and a real threat to…
The ACLU just released a comprehensive report on these reprehensible tactics all around the USA.
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#9That's incredible. What's the incidence of things like this in the rest of the world?
Depends which part. Happens all day every day in Palestine.
Re: A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
#10These stories seem fake to me. I know they are real but I have trouble believing that people, human beings would actually act like this. Why do we have people acting as police that wouldn't let a mother comfort her crying, very injured child. They weren't after her, she wasn't the criminal.