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Offline Gunthr

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Re: Paramilitary police tactics misfire again
« Reply #105 on: March 24, 2008, 09:44:44 PM »
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Gunthr, if this was the first time this had happened, I'd say 'sure, point taken'.  But this isn't the first time SWAT methods or no-knocks have been used improperly with tragic results.  It's not even the tenth.  Chair

Oh, I don't disagree.  These tactics are applied widely and sometimes loosely.  There are mistakes, law suites, political consequences and sometimes tragic human consequences when errors in judgment occur.   The laws, the judges, and finally the tort system usually serve to keep things in check. 

I'm not sure what you do about it, except jump up and down when it occurs where you are a voter, and demand that heads roll.  Were you thinking about holding the police responsible for the planning and execution of these tactics, or sort of general nationwide ban on their use?



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Re: Paramilitary police tactics misfire again
« Reply #106 on: March 25, 2008, 01:01:55 AM »
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Shame that the war on drugs and no knock warrants have taken another life, why have we the people let this go on?  I can't believe this guy is getting charged with murder and the cop who killed that kid in NC while he came to answer the door is walking free?

That is the ultimate hypocrisy of our judicial system. Police walk away from incidents, sometimes w/o a slap on the wrist, that will put an everyday Joe in prison for many years.
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Re: Paramilitary police tactics misfire again
« Reply #107 on: March 25, 2008, 01:50:26 AM »
That is the ultimate hypocrisy of our judicial system. Police walk away from incidents, sometimes w/o a slap on the wrist, that will put an everyday Joe in prison for many years.

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NEW ORLEANS - Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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State Supreme Court judge, Arthur J. Cooperman, refused to dismiss charges against three detectives in the shooting of Sean Bell. Justice Arthur J. Cooperman rejected various arguments made by lawyers for the detectives,
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Re: Paramilitary police tactics misfire again
« Reply #108 on: March 25, 2008, 02:51:33 AM »


McGroin the incidents you quote with officers being charged are to rare imo.
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Re: Paramilitary police tactics misfire again
« Reply #109 on: March 25, 2008, 02:58:47 AM »
They were just some that I found within a couple minutes of Google...

Take them for what they're worth.
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