How a SWAT team upended my baby’s life — and got away with it

[sheltiedave]

Blowing a hole in a baby's chest is never explained away in an enlightened society, or accepted as allowable collateral damage, by anyone.

Allowing a police force to operate without any public accountability is the best possible sign that the laws don't apply to either side. You have joined the criminals by your verbiage and by your justifications....

You are killing the very public whose safety you have sworn to protect.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

Blowing a hole in a baby's chest is never explained away in an enlightened society, or accepted as allowable collateral damage, by anyone.

Use of the word "never" makes any argument fundamentally false.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Use of the word "never" makes any argument fundamentally false.

That's a pretty skinny tree you're hiding behind....

The 'never' is ordinary conversational emphasis, and the basic point remains if you modify it to 'just about never.'

[sheltiedave]

Killing a toddler is not the defining moment of a police force. Here the important word, when used in an inflective moment, is "the." Parsing away a police raid fuck up is your MO, which we have come to expect. The police shortcomings are always forgiven in your brave new world.

You used to be an understanding individual, but somewhere you lost that gene.

[hillbilly]

Some do try to run their department properly.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Some do try to run their department properly.

[link removed from quote]

Gawd, Hills. Do you approve of this flashbang use? If not, WTF are you doing posting this distorted political irrelevancy in this thread? Oh, I remember now. You're a 'cop family' and this thread must bug you some.

Anyway, that's a wretched site you linked to. Propaganda-level commentary aside (criminal-in-chief?), it's packed with intrusive adware and chain-linked to a dodgey 'celebrity' site. Evil side of the web, basically. I sure wouldn't want to be associated with it by posting it in one of my messages....

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

Killing a toddler is not the defining moment of a police force. Here the important word, when used in an inflective moment, is "the." Parsing away a police raid fuck up is your MO, which we have come to expect. The police shortcomings are always forgiven in your brave new world.

You used to be an understanding individual, but somewhere you lost that gene.

"Understanding" and failure to be rational are rapidly becoming analogous to societal apologists.

Truth is that overwhelming force is demanded when policing an entitled and/or grotesquely armed population.

What occurs is what occurs. That's the way of the world.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Zeke

"Understanding" and failure to be rational are rapidly becoming analogous to societal apologists.

Truth is that overwhelming force is demanded when policing an entitled and/or grotesquely armed population.

What occurs is what occurs. That's the way of the world.

Ya know Zeke, although you claim to be a "Native American", you must also have an awful lot of white DNA in you for you to be such an asshole.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Ya know Zeke, although you claim to be a "Native American", you must also have an awful lot of white DNA in you for you to be such an asshole.

Did you notice he misused the word 'analogous?' Stuff like that kind of fucks-up the pseudo-intellectual affectations....

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Ya know Zeke, although you claim to be a "Native American", you must also have an awful lot of white DNA in you for you to be such an asshole.

Straw men. Try beating the argument.

Oh wait, you can't...