Wednesday, February 01, 2012

When the fuck did it become OK to...

I've heard of no-knock warrants using battering rams, crowbars, kicking in doors, getting keys from landlords and the like, but...

When the fuck did it become OK to serve a search warrant by chainsawing through an apartment's door?

The FBI takes the isolated incident into horror-film territory.

[Isolated incident is a sarcastic Radley Balko reference to just how commonly police make truly epic militarized mistakes in serving warrants.]

From a comment by "Jim March" at the same link:
There are very, very few things in this world that would cause me to shoot through my own front door at parties unknown.

Coming through it with a chainsaw? Yeah, that’s pretty much RIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE GODDAMN LIST!!!

Oh, and not to bury the lede too badly, but IT WAS THE WRONG GODDAMN APARTMENT!

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