Gee. He wouldn’t be not whining and crying cause it’s HIM, is he?
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Welcome to the world of real ordinary people, who can be mistakenly raided by SWAT teams when the paperwork is wrong. No apologies. Agents bust down doors, throw flash-bang grenades, point guns at kids, and shoot the pets for penny ante drug charges.
Hah! My first thought also. Former Utah AG (prick for short) gets a mouth full and I’m sure he deserves it - you know - as a former Utah #1 law & order guy.
He should praise Allah he lives in Utah, not Texas!
This kind of incident is bound to occur when the police are heavily militarized and equipped with military weapons. The public that the police are supposedly serving become the enemy and an enemy deserves to have weapons pointed at it and be made to feel fear, fear that at the slightest transgression they’ll be shot and/or injured by the officers.
The foundation of this mindset is of course the way that our local police are recruited from the ranks of the enlisted cadre of the military of the U.S. Too often those who are recruited are those who have shown a propensity for violence and a need to control the situation around them. Also those who are recruited are likely sufferers of PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This insidious disease is the cause of many of the suicides and problems that occur when a soldier, seamen or airmen returns to civilian life and finds themselves lacking a job or support from the Veterans Affairs Administration. What then occurs is an abhorrent situation, it expands to an insurmountable situation where the person finds themselves unable to cope and either a suicide occurs or an explosive situation where other people die for lack of care. Militarization of the police: is killing our trust in that institution. It is also the way that they’re trained that causes too many incidents of this nature.
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Good thing the daughter didn’t grab the shotgun and use the castle doctrine routine on the agents. She would be dead and the AG would have a terrible time figuring out who to blame and prosecute along with defending himself of the charges he brought on to himself. Or he could have hired an armed 12 year old body guard. There killing a lot of humans this year all over the country.
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My guess is that AG has ordered these before and was not all that concerned with how the ‘searchees’ felt about it.
Every politician, judge, prosecutor and law enforcement official should be arrested once every 5 to 10 years. Not with a real charge, just a pro-forma arrest with a booking photo and a night in jail. Give them an extra week of vacation as compensation. They have to know what it feels like or they will not know the power they have over the average citizen.
I live in Mass and I think we have a good judicial system and conscientious civil servants … I would go so far as to say I am proud of our Commonwealth. Even here there was a woman (believe she was a grandmother) arrested and jailed for forgetting to pay a $5 dog fee to her town.
If a liberal is a conservative who has never been mugged, then a conservative is a liberal who has never been arrested.
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OK but make it Texas, Chipotle and a bunch of no kind of agents of nothing or other, and it all makes perfect sense.
How could you possibly be upset about a “Good Guy with a Gun” doing his DUTY in your house?
Karma is a BITCH ain’t it?
“How do you get that out of the mind of a 17-year-old who is innocent of everything…”
What are we trying to scrub from her mind? That the police have bigger guns than the general populace? Or that her daddy is a criminal?
Why should your household be treated any differently that the 40,000+ other nationwide cases of searches and summons serving by SWAT? How many timers did YOU as AG send SWAT out to arrest people?
Criminals are dangerous. Suspected criminals are MORE dangerous. You’re now in that category - due to your own actions.
Suck it up, beotch.
“Nobody mistreated anybody. There were multiple witnesses down there”
Funny thing about “multiple witnesses”, when they are all cops, they tend to all have the same story.
Well if you hadn’t broken the law, our troops at home wouldn’t have to slap you around a little, now would they? Breaking the law is supposed to be painful and unpleasant, right?
RIGHT, Mr. Zero Tolerance Republican?