No charges for officers involved in raid that left a toddler severely disfigured

[Veilex]

Source: Rawstory.com

In May, Alecia Phonesavanh and her son were visiting relatives after their Wisconsin home burned down. In the middle of the night, a Georgia SWAT team burst in the home and tossed a flash grenade that landed in the boy's playpen, critically injured her 19-month-old son:

"He's in the burn unit. We go up to see him and his whole face is ripped open. He has a big cut on his chest," Phonesavanh said. "He's only 19 months old. He didn't do anything."

Officers were conducting the raid after an informant said he bought $50 worth of drugs from someone in the house. No money, no weapons of any kind were found in the home.
Compounding the family's tragedy after the raid, Georgia officials said they would NOT pay any of the toddler's medical bills.

Now the family is rightfully outraged at the latest injustice: no charges for any of the officers involved in the military-style SWAT raid.


Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/07/1334884/-No-charges-for-officers-involved-in-raid-that-left-a-toddler-severely-disfigured?detail=facebook

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Flat out unacceptable. They endanger a child and scar him for life because of a single tip off?!?
They didn't bother to check the veracity of this so-called "confidential informant".
Reprehensible.

More here:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/no-charges-for-georgia-officers-who-maimed-toddler-during-no-knock-drug-raid/

[GeorgeGist]

1. Psychos.

[seveneyes]

2. Sue the moron Judge that signed the warrant

And imprison the officers raiding the home.

[Hulk]

3. There has to be recourse!

They certainly must be able to sue these out of control uniformed thugs for this brutality on the innocent and totally vulnerable!

[avaistheone1]

4. Unbelievable and so disturbing.

[KamaAina]

5. This week's Darren Wilson Award winners.

[Trillo]

6. Of course it's unacceptable.

Another lifetime punishment. We seem to have a lot of those.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. I certainly see a major civil suit here.

[littlewolf]

8. this will continue as long as police have immunity

you can sue the dept. but not the individual officer.
and I bet the police are the ones who did the investigation.

[Psephos]

15. Exactly. n/t

[Dopers_Greed]

9. Brave police officers

[sulphurdunn]

10. Bottom Line:

They can shoot your dog, kick down your door, shoot you and your family for pretty much any reason they choose to pull out of their asses, and they'll get away with it, and they know it.

[Catherine Vincent]

11. Unbelievable!

[dickthegrouch]

12. UN FUCKIN ACCEPTABLE

JAIL every officer of the court who can't find a way to prosecute this.

Any less that $100,000,000 in damages for the kid is equally unacceptable. Too much for the city, too bad. Recover from the perpetrators (ALL of them).

There has to be a way for those governed (BY CONSENT!) to remove that consent summarily.

It is up to us who no longer consent to figure out how.

[TimeToEvolve]

13. just another day in profoundly fucked-up ameriKKKa...

... the land where the innocent and vulnerable are punished; and the bullies and sociopaths are protected.

[bbgrunt]

14. k and r. all of this

[iscooterliberally]

16. We are truly occupied by a military force that used to be our police departments.

We can thank congress for decades of horribly bad legislation for this crap. The war on drugs needs to be repealed in its entirety. The DEA should be disbanded. The DEA has had 4 decades to 'solve' drug abuse. The DEA has fucked up royally. The DEA is a parasitic agency that provides no value to our society. The DEA is public enemy number one. We need to clear all three branches of our government of these prohibitionist assholes. We should also be able to sue law enforcement pension funds for police misconduct.

[Lobo27]

17. WTF WAS THE DAMN JURY THINKING...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. My guess? The victims were black and the jury resented them "getting rich" on this....

Now if the kid was a little blonde girl?

Millions.

[Lobo27]

21. So many should be held accountable...

Open raids are such a disgrace... So all someone has to do is mention something incriminating. No evidence whatsoever.

The last name of the family sounds Laos to me, I have a friend with a similar and they are from Laos.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. What I posted fits for ANY minority...

This was the case where the cops hit the wrong address too.

[sakabatou]

20. Exactly my thought

[Chemisse]

23. Prosecutors don't seem eager to present a strong case to juries,

when cops are the defendants.

Yet another atrocity that goes unpunished.

We need impartial people to oversee the police!!

[DreamSmoker]

18. This all started why back

I have been watching this attitude from Police grow to what it is today..

This started way back in Nixons day.. re inforced by Reagan..
It was all about having a way to remove the opposition Politically and grew to the War on Drugs..

Public and Media frenzy began..
The start was with the excuse that Police needed more tools to fight the Drug War..
Next was to change the Laws to gain and advantage over those Criminals...

Many years have gone by and here we are today Folks..
All of us are suspects to Police today.. Innocent until proven Guilty is long gone..
That Logo to Serve and Protect is self serving, not at all meant for the Public it originally referred to..

[whereisjustice]

24. Goddamn police state. eom