And nothing will happen to these guys, no punishment levied, not even a slap on the wrist.
A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son
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sent a disgusted email to both georgia senators
this is one of the worst stories ive ever read in my life
this is one of the worst stories ive ever read in my life
ZEB WALTON
ayo! - BEZ
swat for a teenagers stash? uhhhh... ok..
Field Marshall Bradley
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The sad part is......The crack era is over......There are no more mini drug cartels are drug gangs spread across America.....The only popping drugs are exotic weed and pills, and 99 times out of 100, there is no violence involved in those transactions. No need for the over top call of duty pursuit of non violent offenders.....
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Georgia Police Left Two Teenagers In A Holding Cell With No Lights Or Food For An Entire Weekend
Douglas county courthouse
The holding cell where the teens were kept
Two Georgia teenagers were left in a county courthouse holding cell from Friday to Monday with no food, lights, or toilet paper, Dave Huddleston WSB Atlanta reports.
"I’m embarrassed today as I can possibly be,” Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller told reporters.
The teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, had court appearances on Friday, and were locked in the holding cell after neither of their parents showed up.
“Nobody that works in security is supposed to leave that building at night without checking the cells, and it’s not a hard job to do," Miller said, adding that eight to 10 officers were involved may lose their jobs once he completes the internal investigation.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/geor...nagers-in-a-holding-cell-2014-6#ixzz35ffsC4Vr
Douglas county courthouse
The holding cell where the teens were kept
Two Georgia teenagers were left in a county courthouse holding cell from Friday to Monday with no food, lights, or toilet paper, Dave Huddleston WSB Atlanta reports.
"I’m embarrassed today as I can possibly be,” Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller told reporters.
The teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, had court appearances on Friday, and were locked in the holding cell after neither of their parents showed up.
“Nobody that works in security is supposed to leave that building at night without checking the cells, and it’s not a hard job to do," Miller said, adding that eight to 10 officers were involved may lose their jobs once he completes the internal investigation.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/geor...nagers-in-a-holding-cell-2014-6#ixzz35ffsC4Vr
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Report Points To 'Dangerous Militarization' Of U.S. Law Enforcement
by SCOTT NEUMAN
June 24, 2014 4:58 PM ET
During a drill, SWAT team members prepare to secure a ship in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Elaine Thompson/AP
U.S. law enforcement at all levels has undergone a dangerous militarization in recent years, with heavily armed SWAT teams being deployed to serve warrants and for drug searches, but rarely for the hostage situations they were designed for, the American Civil Liberties Union says in a new report.
In "War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing," the ACLU says its investigation corroborates the unnecessary use of a proliferation of Special Weapons and Tactics teams made possible by federal programs that incentivize aggressive weapons and battlefield tactics at the local level.
The study looked at 800 SWAT deployments among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012.
"Using these federal funds, state and local law enforcement agencies have amassed military arsenals purportedly to wage the failed War on Drugs, the battlegrounds of which have disproportionately been in communities of color. But these arsenals are by no means free of cost for communities," says Kara Dansky, senior counsel with the ACLU's Center for Justice.
The ACLU's report highlights a number of cases where it says the use of SWAT teams led to unnecessary deaths and injuries, and echoes in some ways a much earlier report (in 2006) put out by the libertarian Cato Institute that showed much the same trend.
A few of the incidents highlighted in the report:
— "In 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed when, just after midnight, a SWAT team threw a flashbang grenade through the window into the living room where she was asleep. The flashbang burned her blanket and a member of the SWAT team burst into the house, firing a single shot, which killed her."
— Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old Iraq War veteran, whose wife heard a noise that turned out to be a SWAT team. Guerena "picked up his rifle, with the safety on, and went to investigate. A SWAT team fired 71 shots at Guerena, 22 of which entered his body and killed him."
Among the ACLU's findings:
— 62 percent of SWAT raids were for the purpose of conducting drug searches.
— Just 7 percent of SWAT raids were "for hostages, barricade, or active shooter scenarios."
— SWAT raids are directed disproportionately against people of color — 30 percent of the time the "race of individual people impacted" was black, 11 percent of the time Latino, 20 percent white and 30 percent unknown.
— Armored personnel vehicles that local law enforcement agencies have received through grants from the Department of Homeland Security are most commonly used for drug raids and not school shootings and terrorist situations.
— In cases in which police cited the possible presence of a weapon in the home as a reason for utilizing a SWAT team, weapons were found only 35 percent of the time.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140625
by SCOTT NEUMAN
June 24, 2014 4:58 PM ET
During a drill, SWAT team members prepare to secure a ship in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Elaine Thompson/AP
U.S. law enforcement at all levels has undergone a dangerous militarization in recent years, with heavily armed SWAT teams being deployed to serve warrants and for drug searches, but rarely for the hostage situations they were designed for, the American Civil Liberties Union says in a new report.
In "War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing," the ACLU says its investigation corroborates the unnecessary use of a proliferation of Special Weapons and Tactics teams made possible by federal programs that incentivize aggressive weapons and battlefield tactics at the local level.
The study looked at 800 SWAT deployments among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012.
"Using these federal funds, state and local law enforcement agencies have amassed military arsenals purportedly to wage the failed War on Drugs, the battlegrounds of which have disproportionately been in communities of color. But these arsenals are by no means free of cost for communities," says Kara Dansky, senior counsel with the ACLU's Center for Justice.
The ACLU's report highlights a number of cases where it says the use of SWAT teams led to unnecessary deaths and injuries, and echoes in some ways a much earlier report (in 2006) put out by the libertarian Cato Institute that showed much the same trend.
A few of the incidents highlighted in the report:
— "In 2010, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones was killed when, just after midnight, a SWAT team threw a flashbang grenade through the window into the living room where she was asleep. The flashbang burned her blanket and a member of the SWAT team burst into the house, firing a single shot, which killed her."
— Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old Iraq War veteran, whose wife heard a noise that turned out to be a SWAT team. Guerena "picked up his rifle, with the safety on, and went to investigate. A SWAT team fired 71 shots at Guerena, 22 of which entered his body and killed him."
Among the ACLU's findings:
— 62 percent of SWAT raids were for the purpose of conducting drug searches.
— Just 7 percent of SWAT raids were "for hostages, barricade, or active shooter scenarios."
— SWAT raids are directed disproportionately against people of color — 30 percent of the time the "race of individual people impacted" was black, 11 percent of the time Latino, 20 percent white and 30 percent unknown.
— Armored personnel vehicles that local law enforcement agencies have received through grants from the Department of Homeland Security are most commonly used for drug raids and not school shootings and terrorist situations.
— In cases in which police cited the possible presence of a weapon in the home as a reason for utilizing a SWAT team, weapons were found only 35 percent of the time.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140625
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Judge Rules U.S. 'No-Fly List' Violates Constitution
By Justin Bachman June 25, 2014
Photograph by John Angerson/Gallery Stock
America’s air travel ban on thousands of people suspected of posing a security threat is unconstitutional because there’s no meaningful way to challenge inclusion on the “no-fly list,” a federal judge has ruled.
“Without proper notice and an opportunity to be heard, an individual could be doomed to indefinite placement on the No Fly List,” U.S. District Judge Anna Brown of Portland, Ore., wrote in a ruling (PDF) issued on Tuesday. She called it a “fundamental deficiency” of the list.
The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center developed the watch list in response to the 2001 terror attacks, and an estimated 20,000 people are now banned from commercial air travel to or from the U.S. and over U.S. airspace. People on the list can contest their inclusion, and can appeal to the Transportation Security Administration or to a U.S. Court of Appeals if their complaints are denied after administrative review. The government contends that people on the list can travel by other means, an argument the judge found wanting for international travel given the time and expense associated with ships and trains. Spokeswoman Dena Iverson said the Justice Department is reviewing the decision.
STORY: To Speed Up Security Lines, Airports Start Tracking Your Smartphone
Thirteen people who had been denied airline boarding sued U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the FBI in 2010, contending that the list violated their rights. The plaintiffs live in several states, and include Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, the imam of Portland’s largest mosque. Two plaintiffs are former Marines, one served in the Army, and another was in the Air Force. Some have been unable to visit family, have lost job opportunities, and have been unable to travel to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, a fundamental pilgrimage for Muslims. Several said they had been detained and questioned abroad as they tried to travel to the U.S. because of the list. (The government doesn’t inform people when they’re placed on the list, and the Justice Department did not confirm or deny whether any of the plaintiffs are on the list; Brown therefore assumed that the plaintiffs’ contention that they are on the list was true.) “The Court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this modern world,” Brown wrote in her decision. “Indeed, for many international travel is a necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society.”
“This excellent decision also benefits other people wrongly stuck on the No Fly List, with the promise of a way out from a Kafkaesque bureaucracy causing them no end of grief and hardship,” said Hina Shamsi, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which coordinated the lawsuit. “We hope this serves as a wake-up call for the government to fix its broken watch-list system, which has swept up so many innocent people.”
http://www.businessweek.com/article...ment-no-fly-list-doesnt-fly?cmpid=fb.campaign
By Justin Bachman June 25, 2014
Photograph by John Angerson/Gallery Stock
America’s air travel ban on thousands of people suspected of posing a security threat is unconstitutional because there’s no meaningful way to challenge inclusion on the “no-fly list,” a federal judge has ruled.
“Without proper notice and an opportunity to be heard, an individual could be doomed to indefinite placement on the No Fly List,” U.S. District Judge Anna Brown of Portland, Ore., wrote in a ruling (PDF) issued on Tuesday. She called it a “fundamental deficiency” of the list.
The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center developed the watch list in response to the 2001 terror attacks, and an estimated 20,000 people are now banned from commercial air travel to or from the U.S. and over U.S. airspace. People on the list can contest their inclusion, and can appeal to the Transportation Security Administration or to a U.S. Court of Appeals if their complaints are denied after administrative review. The government contends that people on the list can travel by other means, an argument the judge found wanting for international travel given the time and expense associated with ships and trains. Spokeswoman Dena Iverson said the Justice Department is reviewing the decision.
STORY: To Speed Up Security Lines, Airports Start Tracking Your Smartphone
Thirteen people who had been denied airline boarding sued U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the FBI in 2010, contending that the list violated their rights. The plaintiffs live in several states, and include Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, the imam of Portland’s largest mosque. Two plaintiffs are former Marines, one served in the Army, and another was in the Air Force. Some have been unable to visit family, have lost job opportunities, and have been unable to travel to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, a fundamental pilgrimage for Muslims. Several said they had been detained and questioned abroad as they tried to travel to the U.S. because of the list. (The government doesn’t inform people when they’re placed on the list, and the Justice Department did not confirm or deny whether any of the plaintiffs are on the list; Brown therefore assumed that the plaintiffs’ contention that they are on the list was true.) “The Court concludes international travel is not a mere convenience or luxury in this modern world,” Brown wrote in her decision. “Indeed, for many international travel is a necessary aspect of liberties sacred to members of a free society.”
“This excellent decision also benefits other people wrongly stuck on the No Fly List, with the promise of a way out from a Kafkaesque bureaucracy causing them no end of grief and hardship,” said Hina Shamsi, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which coordinated the lawsuit. “We hope this serves as a wake-up call for the government to fix its broken watch-list system, which has swept up so many innocent people.”
http://www.businessweek.com/article...ment-no-fly-list-doesnt-fly?cmpid=fb.campaign
but who are we gonna sell all that cool military equipment to?
I say we start selling them to civilians too, this will create more jobs and boost the economy
It's a win win; don't YOU want your own tank?
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Georgia Police Left Two Teenagers In A Holding Cell With No Lights Or Food For An Entire Weekend
Douglas county courthouse
The holding cell where the teens were kept
Two Georgia teenagers were left in a county courthouse holding cell from Friday to Monday with no food, lights, or toilet paper, Dave Huddleston WSB Atlanta reports.
"I’m embarrassed today as I can possibly be,” Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller told reporters.
The teenage boys, ages 16 and 17, had court appearances on Friday, and were locked in the holding cell after neither of their parents showed up.
“Nobody that works in security is supposed to leave that building at night without checking the cells, and it’s not a hard job to do," Miller said, adding that eight to 10 officers were involved may lose their jobs once he completes the internal investigation.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/geor...nagers-in-a-holding-cell-2014-6#ixzz35ffsC4Vr
That lawsuit.....
