Back in July I posted a video about Police gone wild, This Is What Happens, with a link to police burning a baby in a botched drug raid. I also did a post about the raid in May They Burn Babies Don’t They?. It has finally hit the national news. Family of Toddler Injured by SWAT ‘Grenade’ Faces $1M in Medical Bills. Better. It will be on TV tonight.
Some typical comments to the linked story:
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Collateral damage of the police state.
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When something like this happens it reminds me of what went on in the communist block countries. This is why an awful lot of us have the opinion that we do indeed live in a police state…Makes you wonder why we should love this country at all, sad indeed…
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The War on Drugs is doing great isn’t it? An innocent 18 month old toddler is just collateral damage.
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Many years ago as part of my role as a Psychologist I working for the State of Oklahoma, I administered the lengthy psychological test…..The MMPI. One of the things I learned is that police officers often have very similar profiles as do the criminals they arrest. I respect and certainly obey officers of the law. However, I don’t think it takes much of a belief… such as the ends justify the means, for particular officers to cross to the dark side…..even though they likely would see their actions as justifiable, and would probably not even think such thoughts unless they got “caught” in a bad judgment.
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Police conduct over 80,000 no knock home invasions a year. This isn’t by accident. They want to keep us scared and on our heels. It’s hard to rally against state corruption in this kind of environment. And that is exactly how they like it.
As of this post there are over 5,300 comments.
If you want to watch it in action now I have a little video:
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5 responses to “Police State – Watch It In Action Tonight”
Why do you think people of all colors are blocking interstate highways with their lives! It must be very effective tactic as the police are going bezerk with motorists and politician complaints about it.
I’ll be watching 20/20 tonight.
The Rob Hustle video is quite disturbing. I’d already seen some of the videos used in his music video. LEO’s are out of control in this country. Disgusting.
For those interested, here are a couple of sites that cover the police misconduct beat:
From The Cato Institute:
http://www.policemisconduct.net/
And a grassroots project:
http://www.policestateusa.com/
Take your blood pressure medicine before visiting either of these sites.
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Randy,
Another one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/radley-balko
I watched the 20/20 segment on the SWAT drug raid. I give the report a B- and I’m being generous.
The segment covered the facts of the situation but didn’t delve into the reasons why this sort of thing happens on such a regular basis across the country. It would have warranted higher marks if the segment had dug deeper and reported on the problems arising from the misuse of SWAT teams for everyday, ordinary police work and how the WOD has brought these storm-trooper tactics into mainstream policing.