DC police like to play Rambo on no evidence, and it is legal

[ExPatty 502]

Video game and movie inspired police have been assaulting innocents for a long time with bogus raids, but the war on drugs really put a fire under their rear. Many have ended up dead and many more traumatized when police have raided residences even on non-violent warrants. It is disgusting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2016/03/05/probable-cause/

"Sallie Taylor was sitting in her apartment in Northeast Washington one evening in January 2015 watching Bible Talk when her clock fell off the wall and broke. She turned and looked up. Nine D.C. police officers smashed through her door, pointed a shotgun at her face and ordered her to the floor.

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told police that the woman did not live there. Officers spent 30 minutes searching the house anyway, going through her boxes and her underwear drawer. They found no drugs and left without making an arrest.

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The search warrant executed at Taylors apartment cited no evidence of criminal activity there. Instead, in an affidavit to a judge, police argued that they should be able to search for drugs there based on their training and experience investigating the drug trade. They relied on an address they found in a court-records system for the woman arrested with PCP."

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Not the first time. Flash grenade was thrown in on a baby. I don't understand why they don't steak out and gain Intel first to insure they're in the right place

[ExPatty 502]

Not the first time. Flash grenade was thrown in on a baby. I don't understand why they don't steak out and gain Intel first to insure they're in the right place

Where's the fun in that? In this video:

the swat heroically assault a home with an old lady and a kid there. At 9:50 you can hear them talking about the day's battle as they brag about how easily they broke the glass on the way in.

[smilesammich 10,727]

and police wonder why so many kids come up with negative views of police. do this to a kid's home/family once, they'll never forget it.