A friend of mine's house was invaded by SWAT, torn up, computers confiscated. For some supposed action of his father in laws business. He was pretty well off.
On the other hand, my brother in law was part of a SWAT team sent in to stop a threatening, suicidal man. He was shot in the face while the team was outside of the house, which ended up with the man getting his desire, suicide by cop.
That was in 2008 in Berwyn Maryland. The scheme involved leaving a package at the door that was to be intercepted by another person. The team broke the door down, immediately shot the two family dogs. The mayor had just returned from walking the dogs and was upstairs changing clothes. They handcuffed him, dragged him down the stairs and put him on the floor next to his mother in law and next to bodies of the dead dogs. The police refused to admit any wrongdoing even though they entered with no knock and refused to present a warrant.
The mayor sued and the case was settled for an undisclosed sum this year.
Didn't a Swat team a few yrs back also break down the door and kill a Mayor's dog? I remember it all started because a package filled with drugs was mistakenly delivered to their house, and the wife signed for it. After killing the dog, scaring the crap out of his elderly MIL, they realized the wife signed for the neighbor who wasn't home to accept the delivery.
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just the other week (I think in Arizona), a SWAT team broke down the door of a former US Marine and fired 70+ shots at him. Once they murdered him, it turns out that there was no evidence that would support his door being broken down. Oh well. No repercussions.
Enforcing "moral hazard" for the benefit of banks is the most important, sacred and holy duty of the US government.
Of course "moral hazard" is only for the "little people"
If the woman had owed Deutschebank a hundred billion dollars, the Feds would have been giving her money to pay her obligation at taxpayers(and their grandchildrens!) expense.
Well I guess HUD is going to be able to send in SWAT for foreclosures too!
What really gets me is it illustrates how out of touch the govt is today. A SWAT team consisting of 15 members to conduct a search warrant on a woman who defaulted on her student loans? What did they think she was a millionaire because she was selling guns or drugs, but yet refused to payback her college loans?
People question what is wrong with our educational system. Simple, we are using taxpayer dollars for SWAT instead of pouring it into, I don't know books, teachers, schools, you know the silly stuff that we call education.
I would love to know how big the IG for the DoE including their budget. I would love to know how many search warrants they deal out yrly. I would love to view the success rate compared to cost and if they try liens and garnishments 1st.
For example, this guy was estranged from his wife. She wasn't even living there. Tell me, did they try garnishing her wages or putting a lien on the home? Why didn't they know where she was living if she was employed? All they needed to do was put 24 hr surveillance on the home for a few days and it would have shown them she didn't reside there. I am sure that would cost less than a 15 member SWAT team.
Can we all say lawsuit against the DOE for Mr. Wright? You know that is going to happen especially since his 3 children ages 3 -11 were held in a police car for 6 hrs., and watched their father get forcibly removed from their home. Emotional scarring = punitive damages, and every jury will feel for that little 3 yo who watched Daddy get pulled out in his boxers and placed in a police car for 6 hours.
Gee, I guess us taxpayers will pick up that bill too!
-- Edited by pima on Wednesday 8th of June 2011 07:58:15 AM
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Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.
Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.
"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said.
Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant.
The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.
"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."
According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home.
The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.
OMG, can you imagine? Our DoE is now wasting taxpayer dollars to use SWAT? I am not even understanding why a search warrant was ordered for delinquent student loans. Can anyone explain that to me?
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