Militarized American Police Abuse Of "Knock And Announce" House Search Warrants

[Fred Sanders]

Last edited Wed Feb 5, 2014, 10:38 PM - Edit history (2)

Terror In America?



You decide if the police knocked, announced and permitted the home owners to answer the door before executing an illegal entry, as they did not have a "no knock" warrant for a fraudulent use of credit card allegation, from the one video camera they did not find:

"First, note that the police say they knocked and announced themselves before the raid. The knock and announce requirement has a long history in U.S. and English common law. Its purpose was to give the occupants of a home the opportunity to avoid property damage and unnecessary violence by giving them time to come to the door and let the police in peacefully. As you can see from the video, the knock and announce today is largely a formality. The original purpose is gone. From the perspective of the people inside, there’s really no difference between this sort of “knock and announce” and a no-knock raid. (The covering of the officers’ faces is also troubling, though also not uncommon."?

"Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa. Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods take down the family’s door with a battering ram. You’ll see them storm the home with ballistics shields, guns at the ready. More troubling still, you’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 camera’s lens."



Ripping out the home security video cameras, is that also now common?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/

[rhett o rick]

1. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Yay cops!

& R

[brewens]

3. One night a buddy and I were partying, listening to Neil Diamond "Hot August Night"

and the cops came in. My door was slightly ajar and the used the hard knock sort of slow to make sure and push the door open trick. It turned out they were looking for a kid that had stayed at the adjacent apartment maybe a few weeks before. What they were of course doing was trying to suprise us to get a look at who was here before anyone had a chance to hide or hide anything. It was a good thing I didn't have any weed out but in that case I'm fairly sure I would have made sure the door was closed.

Laugh if you want but "Hot August Night" is a pretty intense live performance and well recorded! For guys like us in our 50's it is anyway. We looked at each other after the cops left and laughed. Two single dudes that aren't gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) sitting together on the couch rocking out to Neil Diamond? Who could blame them for thinking whatever?

[Th1onein]

4. Pigs