Do you think this is OK or not? (video of Watertown home raid)

in my opinion, NO.

and just for the record...if i found a 19 year old kid, being chased by 30k cops, i would have let him stay in my boat.

shut up and take my money

it's important for me to understand the context around the authorities targeting that house before i can answer your questions, dwb.

the authorities did not handle each and every house in watertown that way, i wonder what made them act that way re: that home and the occupants?


here's a photo of a watertown cop that is going viral, he is delivering milk to a family during the lockdown


so i will ask you the same question-

Do you find how they treat the residents acceptable or disturbing?

that would be a federal crime and you would then go to prison.

sometime it doesn't pay being a kook..

its six of one, half dozen of the other... by answering "yes" it's ok you then are saying its fine for the gov't to just walk into your house, but "no" means you have some kind of superior force field that only a piece of paper signed by a judge will let them in. either case, they would have come into your house whether you like it or not.

people wanted this guy caught by any means necessary, letting him go would have meant huge problems for Boston and everyone being on high alert for months to come. rather, they stepped up and found the guy and "Boston is safe yet again!"

was it completely legal? who knows, a superior judge may have issued a blanket warrant that you're not aware of to do this. I think what the Boston PD did was in the best interest of the public and glad no one got hurt or "accidentally shot" in the process.

America wanted to stand up to these terrorists and prove they will get them by any means necessary, and they did.

fact is you can have all these rights or you can be safe and criminals caught, you can't have both. there are to many (not all) stupid rules and laws in place that make it extremely difficult for law enforcement to do their job. people crying about having their bags searched in airports? TOUGH SHIT! if it was up to me, every fucking person would be searched and their bags so when I'm floating 33k feet in the air, I feel safe.

Well, we know they were looking for one suspect. There was no other reason for them to be doing what they were doing, and that was their justification of it all. None of those residents were him, and they clearly could see that, so they should not have been barked at, told to keep their hands up, and patted down like criminals.

Regarding the photo, they were confiscating items that could be hiding a bomb and destroying them. I watched them do this to several items live on CNN. Additionally, even if that was only milk (is it milk or motor oil?), he should not be touching anyone's personal property. But my guess is he was taking them to be destroyed, or at least dumping out the milk. Or he knows the family. All the stores were closed, so he did not fetch milk for someone.

This is just sick and disgusting to watch

How in the fuck can people defend this tyranny and thuggish behavior? What a bunch of mind controlled lemmings

I concur...no date and no context at all.

do you remember how some of the high schoolers were evacuated from columbine? running single file with their hands up.

i'm not sure why eye-witness photographs taken by citizens keep getting poopoo'd around here. you did the same thing when i posted similar photos of the marks left on the street after the bomb went off.

these are citizens uploading these photos to twitter and intsagram and fb and so on, if we can't even trust them in the slightest, this exercise in whether or not that youtube video you posted is right or wrong is pointless.

When my mom says that she thinks things went a bit overboard, then I tend to believe that they might just have gone a bit overboard.

Shutting the city down and paying 9,000 cops for a one person manhunt is overkill. There's no real way to debate otherwise.

the thing about context. what if known dope dealers lived there? what if the police already knew that criminals lived there, maybe they were known to have guns, etc,.

right? prior to any bombs, the police there were already doing shit, they would most certainly have a house or 2 they know known criminals frequent.

now here they are in the middle of a shootout with bombs trying to find the shitheads and they come up on an already known criminal's house.

what are you going to do? go past it? treat it like a law-abiding citizen's domain? or knock on the door and make everyone come out before you send in the search team?

Harboring/supporting a suspected terrorist...good to know whose side the nutters are on.



As for the door-by-door search, the police were involved in the pursuit of some armed and extremely dangerous individuals, that allegedly perpetrated a cowardly and horrific assault on innocent civilians, killed a cop, and engaged the police in a fierce firefight the night before.

I guess the police were just supposed to nicely knock on the door, and when purecane73 answers the door and tells them no terrorists are present, they should just skip along to the next potential hiding spot, being careful not to offend anyone in the process.

The people that feel this was an invasion of their Constitutional rights should sue the police if they feel that their rights were violated, or they could have just used their 2nd amendment firearms to try and keep the police out (no doubt that's what a warrior like Alex Jone would have done), although I doubt that would have turned out very well either.

There was a recent high-profile kidnaping/disappearance of a teen girl in my region, and the police engaged in a door-to-door search, and although I was not happy at all to let the police in, the detectives were polite, looked around, saw that it was all clear and politely left. While inside, they could not help but notice my cannabis vaporizer and cannabis. I mentioned that I have a doctor issued medical marijuana card and they said that they didn't really care about that. It's been close to a year since that visit, and I've had no other visits from the police. I am satisfied that they were just doing their job (although the body of the girl has never been recovered, police are treating it now as a homicide, and have a suspect in jail awaiting trial).

While we armchair debate the issue, and possibly some lawsuits are filed, I believe that the residents of Watertown and the greater Boston area are overall pleased with the law enforcement effort to stop and apprehend two very dangerous individuals.

Or maybe these cheering citizens are just government operatives:





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