I should have done this one sooner, since all the blogs have talked about it:
Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell now is talking about the high-risk warrant service that resulted in burns to a 2-year-old child early Wednesday.
The child was burned when narcotics agents, assisted by members of the Habersham Special Response Team, used a distraction device as they entered a home at 182 Lakeview Heights Circle outside Cornelia . . .
“According to the confidential informant, there were no children,” Terrell said. “When they made the buy, they didn’t see any children or any evidence of children there, so we proceeded with our standard operation.”
Their intel said there were children there, just like sometimes their intel says the dealer operates out of 43 Elm Street, when in fact the warrant had a typo and it was 34 Elm…
Generally no-knock raid deaths are police shooting people for minor crimes, in this case it was a flash grenade. Of course cops in black fatigues with body armor, tactical gear, grenades, and full-auto weapons being deployed from a military surplus APC never counts for “Gun Death” because the cops are so “Highly Trained”.
This is the first I’ve heard that part. What’s the source? I didn’t see it in the linked article.
There’s a bunch of them. Just google “Botched no-knock raid” and “Clerical Error” and you should be able to track down several.
Here’s the first example I dug up. Loads more can be found here.
Good post, Weer’d, and it sort of reaches into why we regard the Second Amendment as important.
As a young adult forty years ago, I was a hang ’em high type. I changed a bit. Why? Cops go bad; prosecutors go bad; politicians go bad; armies go wrong, and governments go wrong.
Yeah, I’m okay with cops, prosecutors, lawfully constituted civil authority, and all that. But, the Second Amendment, which empowers ordinary citizens to act “in the gravest extreme” (Thanks Mass Ayoob), seems to me a check on the claims by government that only government can solve problems of violent crime and property crime. You don’t want to give any government or bureaucracy too much leeway. That’s just my feeling.