IN: Yet another SWAT mission gone wrong

[seamusTX]

In Anderson, Indiana, police received a report that a fugitive criminal was holed up at a certain address.

Police asked the resident if they could search the home. She says that she gave them permission and then left. She says that police then fired multiple tear-gas cannisters into the home.

No fugitive was found.

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- Jim

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"City attorney Tim Lanane said under the Indiana Tort Claims Act, municipalities have immunity for acts taken under the name of the law."

In other words, some nameless person didn't like their neighbor so they called the "tip line". The police jumped on the tip and screwed some poor lady out of her home. To cover their butts, they act like the lady didn't give them permission to enter her home. SO WHERE IS THE WARRANT that granted permission to enter the home? Or is one not needed so long as you have unsubstantiated anonymous tips? I would think if she refused to allow the police to enter the home, she would be detained in some fashion under the assumption that she was harboring a fugitive.

[Frost]

Why repeal Posse Comitatus when you can just militarize the police?

[Liberty]

Power without accountability is tyranny. They destroy the home, and then claim they can't be held responsible. Actually I believe that the police officers themselves and the policy makers who allow these actions should pay, instead of the taxpayer. If we started holding the people who cause the harm responsible maybe would have fewer military actions perpetrated by civilian authorities.

[C-dub]

There's got to be some recourse.

[seamusTX]

That's why we have federal civil rights laws.

I'm predicting in this case, the woman will get an attorney to file a lawsuit, and the city will give her shut-up-and-go-away money to settle the lawsuit.

As an editorial comment, I doubt that any city or county candidate was ever elected to office on a platform of reining in the police and limiting the actions of SWAT teams. The innocent people who suffer from these actions are usually poor and despised. You don't see this kind of thing happening in River Oaks (Houston's millionaire row).

- Jim

[barres]

That's why we have federal civil rights laws.

I'm predicting in this case, the woman will get an attorney to file a lawsuit, and the city will give her shut-up-and-go-away money to settle the lawsuit.

As an editorial comment, I doubt that any city or county candidate was ever elected to office on a platform of reining in the police and limiting the actions of SWAT teams. The innocent people who suffer from these actions are usually poor and despised. You don't see this kind of thing happening in River Oaks (Houston's millionaire row).

- Jim

What about that mayor whose house got raided and his dogs shot to death about a year or so ago? He was neither poor nor despised, and he lived in an affluent neighborhood.

[seamusTX]

Cheye Calvo, Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland. That was one in a thousand. The investigators may have been smoking the evidence.

Nearly all this stuff happens to people with names like Otis, DeWayne, and Pedro, who live in trailers, shotgun shacks, or crummy apartments.

- Jim