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2015-08-25 -Land of the Free

SWAT Team Raids Wrong Worcester Home, Residents Say

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Since that's the best intel they had at the time, they need to fix their intel thingy. But, if you want to do cowboy shit and scare women and kids, going to a place where criminals aren't is your best bet.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2015-08-25 07:06|| 2015-08-25 07:06|| Front Page Top

#2 One more in a depressingly long line of incidents like this.

This is why the police are held in such low regard among those who are in the target demographic. Insty has some good thoughts on this type of thing starting with getting rid of qualified immunity.

The DAs and those in charge of this should be personally responsible.

Posted by AlanC 2015-08-25 07:28|| 2015-08-25 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 The police state of Massachusetts welcomes you. Please continue to vote Democrat.

For Spanish press 1.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-08-25 07:33|| 2015-08-25 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Please do not call these people 'professionals'. You can dress them up, you can give them 'neat' names, but when they do this, they're just a bunch of wannabees, unfortunately armed with very destructive weaponry.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-25 09:15|| 2015-08-25 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing says "police state" like SWAT team at 3 a.m. I'm trying to recall how police handled such things before they got the black soldier suits and started learning infantry tactics.

On the other hand, I've also got a son who's done his own share of door kicking. Since Black Lives Matter so very much and entire cities are being turned over to career criminals (besides their political oppressors) I guess this sort of horror had to become more common. It was pretty much under the radar until the Elian Gonzalez picture.

Posted by Fred 2015-08-25 09:57|| 2015-08-25 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Best way to get this to stop is to make the people that were involved in the raid and the planning and the authorization personally liable and they can be fined thousands of dollars that go to the aggrieved party.

You kick in the wrong door, you lose a month's paycheck.

Raids like this will end overnight and the police will make damn sure the door they kick in is the right one.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-25 10:06|| 2015-08-25 10:06|| Front Page Top

#7 In other news, Worcester has its own SWAT team...

Posted by Raj 2015-08-25 10:18|| 2015-08-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Personal liability in cases like this for the judge, da, and officer in charge. Their jobs and personal property should be on the line. For the individual officers, professional standards must be enforced - body cams to capture language and actions. Suspension without pay, reduction in rank, and after several violations, termination for cause.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-08-25 11:09|| 2015-08-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#9 If past experience is any indicator, there is no "wrong" home in Worcester.

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-25 14:49|| 2015-08-25 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 ~~For Spanish press 1.~~

For English, press 1.

FIFY.

Posted by gorb 2015-08-25 14:56|| 2015-08-25 14:56|| Front Page Top

#11 This needs to go beyond allowing to be fined or sued. Charge them with home invasion, kidnapping, etc. Prison time for EVERYONE involved in the entire process. Then maybe you'll some actual professionalism return.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-08-25 15:40|| 2015-08-25 15:40|| Front Page Top

#12 If a Republican gets into office, you all will be singing a different tune.

"Well accidents happen". "No one is perfect". "Stop associating with criminals and this wont happen".

Its so predictable.

Posted by Jart Flutle2277 2015-08-25 18:50|| 2015-08-25 18:50|| Front Page Top

#13 "Well accidents happen"

And they say no one can tell you're a dog on the internet!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-08-25 19:55|| 2015-08-25 19:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Check again. I was saying this a long time ago. Unlike you leftists, we liberty-minded recognize wrong as wrong no matter who is doing it. You, on the other hand, are only concerned with who is holding the whip, instead of getting rid of the whip.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-08-25 19:58|| 2015-08-25 19:58|| Front Page Top

#15 I'll be saying it twice as loudly, asshat.

I expect the Republicans to actually DO something about it.

So please go masturbate to Das Kapital.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-25 21:10|| 2015-08-25 21:10|| Front Page Top

#16 If a Republican gets into office, you all will be singing a different tune.

Maybe. Maybe not.

We do know what the Democrats' track record is, though. Seems I recall the police were being given war-surplus during this administration.

Posted by Pappy 2015-08-25 21:28|| 2015-08-25 21:28|| Front Page Top

#17 Wow. A new chew toy.

Been a while.

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