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Title: SWAT team enters wrong home, homeowner cited for window broken by police
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KMOV-TV
URL Source: http://www.kmov.com/story/29411942/ ... omeowner-sues-city-of-st-louis
Published: Jun 26, 2015
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2015-06-29 10:39:15 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 631
Comments: 6
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) - A homeowner is suing the city of St. Louis after a SWAT team broke down his front door, but they had the wrong house.
Leon Walker and his family live in the 5600 block of Geraldine, where a SWAT team broke down the door to execute the search warrant, which was for a man who lived two doors down.
"Once they are at the premises, why didn't Detective Vaughn say, 'wait a minute, I did the surveillance and this is not the right house, everybody stop,'" said Attorney Bevis Schock, who represents the Walker family.
After finding nothing at the Walker house, a building inspector issued the Walker family a citation.
"In this case the insult was to have the building inspector cite them for the window that had been broken by the police an hour earlier as part of the entry, and that's outrageous," Schock said.
The St. Louis Police Department referred News 4 to the City Counselor's Office for comment on the SWAT procedures, but they did not respond.
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#6. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland, Misterwhite, Percy Misanthrope, Vinny, cop worshipers and police state apologists (#0)
The front door was kicked down, and armed assailants rushed in with AR-15 rifles drawn and pointed Walker and his family. These armed and incredibly incompetent and dangerous assailants were members of the St. Louis Police Department’s SWAT team. The SWAT team was looking for an evil man who allegedly committed the ‘crime’ of selling a substance to willing customers. This man’s name was Darron Ford, and he lived two doors down from the Walker family. The fact that the man they were looking for lived two doors down was of no consequence to these thugs in uniform as they went along with the raid, in full. For two hours, police, who knew they were at the wrong address, tore the home of Leon Walker apart in search of a non-existent reason to justify their idiocy. The apologists sit back and tell people that if they don’t do anything wrong, they don’t have anything to worry about. Another "victory" in the glorious War on Drugs!
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestLeon Walker and his family were settling down for dinner last week when they were violently interrupted as flashbang grenades came flying into their house and began exploding.
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