Ray Rosa Not Guilty - No Knock Warrant Gone Awry

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Javelin Man wrote:How often have officers been wounded or killed and innocent people faced charges?
Usually it's innocent, unarmed people who end up wounded or killed... and blamed for their own maiming or murder... then mocked for seeking redress.
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After the trial, the jurors spoke with the defense attorneys. Here are some of the reasons given for the acquittal. From mimesislaw.com:

Afterward, the jury talked to the attorneys and the following issues came out:

The officers were not credible, their stories didn’t match
The fact that the flash-bang is designed to disorient and distract, which it did
That there was no video from body cams or vehicles
That the police did not conduct pre-raid surveillance
That Rosas was indicted for an assault committed by an officer
That the officer wasn’t also indicted
That the prosecutor dismissed half of the charges in the middle of the trial

These sort of cases are happening with greater frequency. The number of "no knock" raids has shot up dramatically. Cases like this fuel the call for reform.

No knock raids should have a very limited role in law enforcement.
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Here's another instance of police raiding the wrong house - and posting it on social media before they realized their mistake. Fortunately, no one was killed http://theweek.com/speedreads/669369/po ... rong-house
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glocksmith wrote:Here's another instance of police raiding the wrong house - and posting it on social media before they realized their mistake. Fortunately, no one was killed http://theweek.com/speedreads/669369/po ... rong-house
I hope they find a good lawyer... and lose any drop of mercy they ever had.

The perpetrators need to be DESTROYED, if not financially, in the court of public opinion. Yak herders in Bhutan should spit when they hear their names.
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glocksmith wrote:Here's another instance of police raiding the wrong house - and posting it on social media before they realized their mistake. Fortunately, no one was killed http://theweek.com/speedreads/669369/po ... rong-house
I saw today that the perpetrator of the snap chat was suspended, with pay no doubt.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for meaningful punishments to be imposed on anyone.

I wonder how long before Patrick Lynch starts slandering the victims...
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It's too bad this congressional candidate from Georgia didn't win the election. He ticked off the FOP. This news cast was clearly biased against his comments; they didn't want to be confused with the facts and common sense. Their minds were already made up.
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An Indiana court has overturned a man's felony drug convictions because of a SWAT team's “unreasonable” search that endangered an infant, a decision that highlights growing concerns about the militarization of routine police work.

The SWAT team executed a “military-style assault” and detonated a flash-bank grenade in close proximity to a 9-month-old after a confidential informant told detectives that he had seen marijuana, cocaine and a firearm in the home, according to the Indiana Court of Appeals' enumeration of the facts of the case.
Deploying SWAT teams to serve search or arrest warrants is becoming increasingly common, Kraska noted. While SWAT teams use tactics originally developed by U.S. Navy Special Operations forces to resolve hostage situations, Kraska's work shows that 85 percent of SWAT work today involves carrying out search and arrest warrants like the one in Indiana.

It is a potentially dangerous trend. ProPublica has documented at least 50 cases since 2000 of Americans being killed, maimed or injured by flash-bang grenades — incendiary devices that emit a loud noise and bright light. Its investigation found that some police departments deploy the grenades liberally, on 80 percent or more of the raids they conduct.

“This is something that goes on every day across the United States,” Kraska said. “Police have gotten used to and normalized the use of SWAT teams in warrant work.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... fbe32956be
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