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The Khangs counted twenty-four bullet holes from the doorkickers. Mrs. Khang called 911, and apparently was told that there masked men who had kicked in their door and were busy shooting up the place were police. Over at the Star Tribune, David Chanen characterizes the official "oops" as "Minneapolis police apologize..."
The Khangs are clear that the police didn't apologize. Lt. Amelia Huffman of the MPD says that they have.
Who has more credibility?
Meanwhile, the MPD is investigating the MPD to determine if the MPD did anything wrong when the MPD kicked in the door of some innocent shlub's house and the MPD shot it up. Seven MPD police officers are on paid vacation while that's going on. Please don't stop taking your vitamins waiting for the MPD to find that the MPD did anything wrong. Scurvy doesn't become you.
Needless to say, the swatzi fanboys are already chiming in. My favorite is this [now vanished] one*, from one
Scream all you want but the other two warrants took many guns off theYeah. That's the problem with men in black hoods kicking in some poor shlub's door in the middle of the night, shouting and waving guns around, and shooting up the place, sure.
street and thats (sic) what matters in the whole picture (sic). The fact that the
home owner had a problem speaking English is no ones (sic) fault but his
own, and the fact that he fired first is his fault.
If you move here speak the FRIGGIN Lingo!!!!!!!!!!!!
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* Sheesh . . . this clown is a newly-hired Capitol security guard who brags about how "...i doesw not take much resistance to taser a windbag who wants to tell me his rights." I took a screenshot of that one, too. Capitol security folks -- what kind of folks are you hiring?
Anonymous
December 18 2007, 16:10:01 UTC 4 years ago
LOL. That's a nicer description than I've had in my head this morning.
princewally
December 18 2007, 16:52:37 UTC 4 years ago
December 18 2007, 16:55:15 UTC 4 years ago
December 18 2007, 17:39:19 UTC 4 years ago
Anonymous
December 18 2007, 19:36:38 UTC 4 years ago
Anonymous
December 18 2007, 20:43:53 UTC 4 years ago
Tactical teams are a very handy tool for some circumstances. Unfortunately, lots of places you run into the 'all you have is a hammer' attitude, and the team gets used far too often, and for cases where they've got no business being used.
Someone once put it "In a no-knock raid, especially in the middle of the night, the police have NO room for error; an "Oops, we're sorry!" doesn't cut it when some innocent citizen has been dragged out of bed at gunpoint, often shoved around and threatened, or- worst of all- shot and possibly killed. Or seen their family, kids and all, abused.
Anonymous
December 20 2007, 05:36:13 UTC 4 years ago
Anonymous
December 19 2007, 00:24:17 UTC 4 years ago
SWAT
Why do we have masked ninja style police in the 1st place?? Are they ashamed of the job they're doing that they have to hide?? MP5's will tend to shoot up a place. Again, full auto for law enforcement? There hasn't been a case of criminal use of a full auto in ten years. Consider this...."Scream all you want. Even though a couple of family members were killed, our other two warrants took many guns off the street." George Orwell would most assuredly have inserted that type of quote in his book.Anonymous
December 19 2007, 00:41:04 UTC 4 years ago
What Language-?
EXACTLY What languages does one speak when armed men wearing black hoods swarm into your home firing bullets-?English does not work with the Police since they neither read nor comprehend English as written and spoken by judges and legislators.
How many words would work to stop bullets-?
What a load of crap-! It's a good thing no cops were killed-otherwise the law abiding home owner would be going to prison for defending his family....