The lawsuit, filed on behalf of 14 of the 28 individuals who were “detained, removed, searched, restrained — and terrified” in a “more-than-two-hour mass roundup of innocent men, women and children at a traffic section,” was filed last Friday and names the City of Aurora and the police chief, among others, as defendants.
According the the lawsuit, the plaintiffs had their Constitutional rights violated after a man robbed a Wells Fargo branch on June 2, 2012. The suspect, described as a white male in his twenties or thirties about 5 foot, 6 inches tall, fled the scene with cash that contained a hidden GPS transmitter which was immediately traced to a nearby intersection.
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The police is already becoming a militant organization....
ReplyDeleteSo much for "Protect and Serve"!
They protect and serve total strangers every day for not even a thank you. God bless the thin blue line.
ReplyDeleteIt's not time yet. It needs to get worse, it will. Just a matter of time.
ReplyDeleteTo think the police (or the people who condone their actions or give them orders) KNOW what the Constitution says or means, or give a rats ace about ANY of your rights is to label yourself as either naïve or stupid.
ReplyDeleteThousands upon thousands upon thousands of court cases have proven that they do as they please, knowing they will be full supported by a rubberstamping state's Attorney and judges. They use powers of arrest KNOWING the arrest is baseless/illegal, but it DOES immediately crush dissent and often ends up in the beating or death of innocent citizens.
It's no longer a "bad apple" scenario -- its the full militarization of a force that USED to "serve" the American citizens, but now merely desire to "teach them lessons" and suppress resistance and dissent. A bank robbery does NOT trump the Constitution, nor allow the police to detain innocent citizens (at GUNPOINT, with the VERY real threat of gunning down anyone who doesn't "comply". It DOES NOT give them authority to search whomever they want (at gunpoint) for any reason they want to make up.
Remember the Boston police and military units ORDERING citizens from their home (at gunpoint and you better not resist, if you want to live) and then SEARCHING their home (we don't need no stinkin' warrant!) ??
Grandmothers and children yanked from their cars (at gunpoint) because they are looking for a white male in his thirties??
Your "rights" have disappeared. Most of you have cheered yourselves hoarse, not realizing that the day will come when YOU will be the target, innocent or not. You are ignorant of history, brainwashed and complacent in your own downfall.
Our forefathers would be ASHAMED at what you have allowed to happen. Ask an old Jewish person who lived in Europe (while there are still some around) during the 1930-40's how THAT behavior worked out for them....
Not that it would make any difference in your thoughts. It's just going to make "I told you so" so much more satisfying....
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThey protect and serve total strangers every day for not even a thank you. God bless the thin blue line.
May 21, 2014 at 8:03 AM
Their thank you is a paycheck. and most times nowadays, if someone calls the cops for help they are beaten and/or killed. thanks but no thanks.