SWAT invades family's home, kills their dogs and terrorizes their kids all over a joint? WTF! VIDEO
 

I'm sure the judge just gave out the search warrant for no reason and they are all just there because they hate joints and prefer bongs. Thats exactly the kind of thing that SWAT teams spend time planning operations to do.

over a joint ............. :Oh crap


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That is horrible, fucking dog killers :321GFY

land of the free....

Exactly... I smell Bulls**t here. No one has the budget to send a SWAT team in for a mere joint.



BUT IT'S ON THE INTERNET, IT MUST BE TRUE!!!



:disgust

what the fuck?

SWAT raids like this over small amounts of drugs are actually quite common :2 cents:

It must be OK because it was the police. Trust your government.

Read on...

http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/05/vi...id-on-missouri

Looks like he was a dealer. At least according to DAs.

By Brennan David
Monday, May 3, 2010

A man whose home Columbia police raided in February on a narcotics search warrant has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and is contemplating a civil action against the department for shooting his two dogs during the raid.
Jonathan E. Whitworth, 25, of 1501 Kinloch Court entered into a plea agreement with the state to drop charges of possession of marijuana and second-degree child endangerment for a guilty plea to possession of drug paraphernalia.
Investigators believed Whitworth was in possession of a large amount of marijuana and was considered a distributor, Deputy Chief Tom Dresner said in February. Police, who found a grinder, a pipe and a small amount of marijuana, shot two dogs upon entering Whitworth’s home around 8:30 p.m. Feb. 11.
SWAT team members encountered a pit bull upon entry, held back and then fatally shot the dog, police say. Officers said the dog was acting in an uncontrollably aggressive manner. A video of the raid shows that a shot was fired upon entry, but the pit bull was not wounded until later.
Whitworth was arrested, and his wife and 7-year-old son were present during the raid. Both his wife and child were living in the residence at the time, said Jeff Hilbrenner, Whitworth’s attorney. Dresner previously said that intelligence gathered before the raid did not indicate the child was in the home.
A second dog was shot in the leg but was not killed. The corgi is seen in the video and does not appear to be wounded. There is no indication when the dog was shot, and Dresner previously said he was unsure when the animal was wounded.
“Their focus right now is to get this behind them,” Hilbrenner said of the Whitworth family. “Obviously, this was a traumatic event for his wife and son. A final decision has not been made, but they are evaluating all of their options.”
Hilbrenner previously said the family was concerned with what happened and that they thought police actions were inappropriate.
After the arrest, Dresner said he believed SWAT team members followed protocol and was awaiting an Internal Affairs investigation. Investigations are conducted each time a weapon is used by officers, said spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden.
The investigation is expected to be completed within the next two weeks and has been prolonged because a SWAT team member is out of town for training. Internal Affairs is conducting the review because the incident involved multiple shots and was inside an occupied residence, Haden said. This allows Internal Affairs sergeants to review the incident independent from the SWAT command.
The Whitworths have not filed a complaint with the department concerning the incident.

hmm doesnt seem right

There's no need for budget anymore, they don't give a flying fuck.. Swat gets sent out all the time for shit it's not needed for.

Looks like they thought he was a dealer.

The pit bull was in a fucking cage!

Don't get me wrong, I love my country, but my government scares the crap out of me... and being a libertarian, I think that any idiot that wants to do drugs has the right to

Having said that though, I was a reserve deputy sheriff for a couple of years, and I can tell you that the search warrants signed by judges that allow a major felony entry like that are not over "a joint"

Do search warrants get served when there is no evidence at the time of the raid? Absolutely, and the officers, especially the lead detective, end up with egg all over their face, but the original intent of the warrant is not "over a joint"

I'm also a big believer that if the police break the rules, they need to get punished, and go to jail if need be.


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I think it's disgusting you guys are willing to defend someone who's bringing up a child in an environment surrounded by drugs.

seems he was not a drug dealer at all

and the dog was in a cage...they let it out?

My only disappointment is that no cops got shot in the process...

Most likely you would rat out your neighbors to the cops if you caught a little whiff of a grass burning coming from next door too.

I agree.

I am sure they told the judge he was a dealer and without a second thought he signed the warrant.

They are not charging him with drug possession. They are only charging him with possession of drug paraphernalia. So it was not all over a joint, but rather all over a bong or pipe...

i hope you do not have any beers/wine/alcohol whatsoever around kids if you have any. Smoking weed is the same thing tight ass

riotsssssssssss

This doesn't appear to be a one off...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339

You have to do more than just "tell the judge that he is a dealer", You have to show sufficient probable cause....and also the Narcotics squad in your average police force is overwhelmed with open files that need to be closed. They don't have the time to follow up on cases that they think are simply misdemeanors, nor can they get the SWAT team out for those. If they did that, the big files would go unclosed, and they would end up being transferred, lose promotion opportunities, etc.... When the head of a department has to report that they have used up so much overtime on raids for misdemeanors, while big felony cases go without an arrest, asses get hung out to dry.




The reason why he was only charged as he was, was because at the time of the raid, the expected evidence was not recovered, so there was no way to charge him with anything more. Remember, Charges are filed AFTER you are arrested.

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You might want to turn off your sig when you go off spouting shit like that.

If you are going to blame anyone for this crap, you need to blame the lawmakers for pushing law enforcement chiefs into this kind of crap. Cops would love to not have to arrest people for Pot.... It would make their lives much easier. It's the people writing the laws, and the local governments pushing the police to enforce them, that should be blamed.




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Yes, in this case an informant gave them a tip and that was considered probable cause.

I never said they did that. They thought, based on a tip from an informant, that he was a dealer.

They could have charged him with misdemeanor drug possession. I am sure that now that this case and video are getting so much attention they just want it to go away so they are charging him with a minimal offense. They are also probably hoping he does not sue them.

No shit...

I have half a dozen relatives who are or were in law enforcement on both the state and federal level. I know how this stuff works very well :2 cents:

Robin Hood....

exactly.

"Investigators believed Whitworth was in possession of a large amount of marijuana and was considered a distributor, Deputy Chief Tom Dresner said in February. Police, who found a grinder, a pipe and a small amount of marijuana, shot two dogs upon entering Whitworth?s home "

what they thoughts and what they found are totally diff.

Sorry, but some cops get off on this shit. They love playing Rambo. Some cops would love to not arrest people for pot.

Show me a law that says it's OK to execute a family pet like this. Show me an example of local governments pushing cops to kill animals like this. Sorry, but I blame the meat head cops who pulled the trigger for their actions. It is shit like this that makes good cops get a bad reputation.

http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

And in regards to the video, that's just fucked up... the SWAT team did NOT need to kill the guy's dogs... If cops decide to raid my house they'd better expect to show some ID and let me review the warrant. I have firearms, I'm better trained than they are, I have home court advantage and I WILL consider a raid on my home with no ID shown to be an unlawful attack on my person and my property.

So who's the criminals in this video? The home owner or the asshats in black that broke in?

shut up pig

you only need 1 snitch to get you ass raided like that

Give me a break. The parents smoke weed. Big deal. If they were crack or methheads then I could see your point.

That's how the police acts.... pigs.

"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

says you ?

ok, if you say so it must be true. I'll take your word for it. :upsidedow

thanks for making me cry today.

I'm for the most part, someone who you will never see saying "fuck the police". I generally support the police and think they have a thankless and tough job. But, even knowing the real truth and the full story(ok he was a dealer), this makes me sick and has ruined my day.

did you hear the pain in that guys voice over the loss of his dog, man that is so raw. Hit me hard

that guy got his house raided for the equivalent of a pack of beer

you have booze in the house by chance? ever?

Yeah, pot helps you deal with your kids more easily, whereas drunks can be douches.