Knock Knock No Knock. ⇒
17 May 2010, early morning
“On the heels of the highly publicized Missouri raid that ended in the death of a corgi, a seven year-old girl has been killed in a no-knock raid in Detroit.” This story is ridiculous, like pretty much every other botched raid story.
“Based on our intelligence, we got a search warrant for the location,” Godbee said. “Because of the violent nature of the crime, we thought we were entering a potentially dangerous situation.”
But Charles Jones said the downstairs apartment where he lives with his mother was occupied at the time of the raid by four children and six adults.
“If they were watching this place to see if their suspect was here, why didn’t they notice all the toys in the yard and all the kids coming and going downstairs?” Jones asked. “They came into my house with a flash grenade and a bullet. They say my mother resisted them, that she tried to take an officer’s gun. My mother had never been in handcuffs in her life. They killed my baby and I want someone to tell the truth.”
The Cato institute has a Google Maps mash-up of these botched raids. It should worry someone that there are so many examples that making a mash-up makes sense.
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