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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Scenes From A Militarized America: Iowa Family ‘Terrorized’

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.

From the images in the video, you’d think they were looking for an escaped murderer or a house full of hit men. No, none of that. They were looking for a few people suspected of credit card fraud. None of the people they were looking for were inside of the house, nor was any of the stolen property they were looking for. They did arrest two houseguests of the family on what the news report says were unrelated charges, one for a probation violation and one for possession of illegal drugs.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

POLICE STATE you have no rights any more in this country!!!! The police think they are almighty and we can't touch them. One of these days they are gonna do that to the wrong house and there is gonna be MUCH blood shed in the process of them illegally serving a warrant!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
POLICE STATE you have no rights any more in this country!!!! The police think they are almighty and we can't touch them. One of these days they are gonna do that to the wrong house and there is gonna be MUCH blood shed in the process of them illegally serving a warrant!

February 5, 2014 at 2:45 PM

Cop Hater!!

I will be glad when you get arrested again and have no access to the internet!

Anonymous said...

Don't worry, he'll prolly have a CO smuggle him a phone into the PC unit

Anonymous said...

Cop Hater!!

I will be glad when you get arrested again and have no access to the internet!

February 5, 2014 at 4:57 PM

Why do you call everyone a cop hater when all they do is point out the obvious?

Do you want people to stop hating cops? It's very simple.

COPS STOP DOING HATEFUL THINGS!