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2013-07-21 -Land of the Free

Sarasota nurse terrorized by warrantless search

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 With the exception of Presidentially authorized "drone zapping", our "police" are practicing tactics and Rules of Engagement against US Citizens which would not, or were not authorized potential enemy combatants in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Thanks for posting the WSJ article.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-21 00:31|| 2013-07-21 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like 1932 Berlin all over again.

Yep the Gestapo is at the door.

They can search anyone and go anywhere and claim to be doing "their job".

How many hundreds of these things happen each year? And with the nasty trend of people calling in anonymous claims to 911 to get a SWAT team to someone's house is going to lead to a tragedy.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-07-21 05:53|| 2013-07-21 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 anonymous claims to 911 to get a SWAT team to someone's house is going to lead to a tragedy.

It's already happened. More than once. Sometimes the innocent homeowner/renter gets killed and sometimes the cop gets killed and the homeowner goes to prison for life or gets sentenced to death.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-21 09:29|| 2013-07-21 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I feel bad for her, Wiggins conceded, finally. But at the same time, I had to reasonably believe the bad guy was in her house based on what they were doing.

Yup... She was washing the dishes. That's a sure sign that you are hiding a dangerous sex offender in your apartment.... (/SARC)

Goldsberry wasn't arrested or shot despite pointing a gun at a cop, so Wiggins said, She sure shouldn't be going to the press.

That sounds like a threat to me. And the 'reporter' seems to think that Mr. Rambo Wiggins here would be perfectly justified to kill and/or arrest her.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-07-21 10:54|| 2013-07-21 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "Mr." Wiggins sure shouldn't be a cop or involved in law enforcement in any way.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-07-21 11:30|| 2013-07-21 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 The failed ATF and LE tactics at WACO appear to have been forgotten. Probably only a matter of time until some well trained homeowner empties an M-14 mag loaded with 20 rnds of 7.62 AP into an assault stack with a bad address. Just my humble opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-21 13:42|| 2013-07-21 13:42|| Front Page Top

#7 When the perp they were looking for was a sex criminal (something that doesn't usually get the death sentence) what the hell were the police using guns for?

Posted by 3dc 2013-07-21 18:01|| 2013-07-21 18:01|| Front Page Top

#8 I sometimes wonder if it'll be much longer before people fed up with this crap start SWATing cops homes. It sure seems like they never bother to check or verify addresses and as hyper-trigger happy as they are, I'm sure they'd manage a grand shootout with each other.

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