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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: 797
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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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
What the hell gives with all of these SWAT Teams raiding the wrong homes? Do not these klowns not know how to get, & give good, accurate directions? These guys should not be on a deadly swat team! They should be reassigned to school crossing guards, or meter maids. Si vis pacem, para bellum
Why was there a building inspector at a home just after the cops ransacked it?
When you're that enthusiastic about demonstrating you prowess and position of superiority, who has time to think? Just barge in, break things, puff your chest out, and show who is boss.
Good question. Probably looking for an easy violation to issue a citation for. And since the cops had been there, he knew there would be some damage to cite. Easy! Si vis pacem, para bellum
I guess it's a new tactic to extort money from innocent victims of their thuggery. From another source: SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Breaks Windows, then Issues Family Citation for Broken Windows Never let a botched SWAT raid go to waste. Had Walker tried to defend his home against the armed invaders, he would have been killed, and the world would have never known about it. The blurb on the nightly news would have been that police kill an armed man who fired on them. “Obviously they think they’re being invaded,” family attorney Bevis Schock said. “The hope is that they won’t fight back but that they’ll cower in fear – the flight response rather than the fight response.” Schock says that police should have stopped their madness once they realized they were at the wrong home. However, they were on an apparent mission to destroy and intimidate. After the life-threatening home invasion and subsequent destruction of their home, the St. Louis Police Department sent out a building inspector. In turn, the inspector issued the Walker family a citation for a window the SWAT team broke during the raid! “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 Walker family could have been killed by these barbarians as they followed their controller’s orders to seek out illicit substances. Instead of an apology for threatening all their lives and ransacking their home, the Walkers were extorted! 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! " SWAT team enters wrong home "
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
#3. To: Stoner (#1)
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What the hell gives with all of these SWAT Teams raiding the wrong homes?
#4. To: buckeroo (#2)
" Why was there a building inspector at a home just after the cops ransacked it? "
#5. To: buckeroo (#2)
Why was there a building inspector at a home just after the cops ransacked it?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
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#6. To: Gatlin, GrandIsland, Misterwhite, Percy Misanthrope, Vinny, cop worshipers and police state apologists (#0)
Leon 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.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
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