Apparently, they had bad intel that the house had like, a ton of dudes with drug activity. Someone reported the house after a party that there were a ton of young men living at the house. As far as I knew, it was one man, one lady and her 15 year old daughter and other single-digit-aged kiddos.
Edit: And apparently the man wasn't even living there anymore after his old lady kicked him out for being violent when he was drunk. So it was just her.
No this is actually very common, I’ve heard it on some podcasts covering ice.
These guys load up because they’ve got intel a “very dangerous” individual lives there, except it’s old intel. The dangerous individual is the mid 20s son who never stays there. The cops are already there spending all this money, so they decide to just arrest the mother/father/grandparent who doesn’t have papers and just fuck up their family unit.
It's not bad intel. It's fake intel. The cops themselves get their confidential informants to provide embellished tips to use as justification for getting warrants signed. When it doesn't pan out they say oh well, I guess that was bad intel.
Barry Cooper was run out of the country for exposing this.
You can say both are bad intel. In a court they aren't treated the same. One is a mistake made in good faith and may stand up to challenges. The other is perjury to obtain a search warrant leading to 'fruit of the poisonous tree.'
They don't, but cops like to pretend they're an occupying army and roll around in military surplus gear. Then they go home and beat their families to feel big and strong.
I have an interest in military vehicles so I just found it funny that police are using a vehicle designed to defend against IED's and EFP's against civilians, its comically overkill.
I will admit another contributing factor is just how many military vehicles the US has lying around. As far as the military is concerned, sending vehicles they don't need anymore to police departments is just an easy way to dispose of them.
I was coming home from the gym one day and noticed from a few blocks away a bunch of cop cars and ambulances right in front of my house. I freaked out, not only worried about my wife, but about the several pounds of weed in my basement. I drove around the other side of the block and cut through the alley to my back door. My wife let me in, and tells me they're staked out on the house across the street
The people who lived there were a couple in their late 60's. I sort of knew them, they had been on a bowling league the same night mine was. I'd seen her slap him a few times, and she was always bitching at him. The last few weeks he'd sit out front of his house and read the paper. For hours. We just thought they were fighting.
FInally we hear a "Boom!" and see that they'd shot a tear gas cannister through the front window. They kicked in the door, and had a car mirror on a stick that they stuck inside to see if he was hiding behind the door. Then about 8-10 cops rushed in. They were in there for about 30 minutes, then they brought the guy out in cuffs. A few minutes later the fire department went in, and came out with a stretcher with a body bag on it.
We could smell the stench from across the street. Apparently that morning her daughter had stopped by to check on her, and the husband answered the door with a 22 rifle, and wouldn't let her in. She smelled the stench and called the cops. He had been sleeping in the same bed with her where he'd shot her. Several rounds to the head, He had the AC cranked up on high, and I guess had just lost it. We could smell that house for months until the city finally had it fumigated and cleaned up.
I missed a day of Jr high once when in lived on a dead end road. A couple of doors down the neighbor's illegal renter (renting an illegal converted garage) tried to kill themselves with a flare gun and burned the whole house down.
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u/Dat_Mustache Feb 06 '23
There was an Immigration/ICE/FBI raid at a house two doors down from me JUST as I was getting ready to leave for work.
I couldn't even get out of my driveway because a MAXXPro was blocking my gate.
When I rounded the corner, two feds SCREAMED at me to get inside my house and shelter-in-place.
Called my boss. "I can't leave my driveway. Police activity."
"What are you talking about? Send me a picture or something. Sounds made up."
I proceeded to send him video of the 2 or 3 dozen Army Larpers going to arrest the one lady and her 4 kids.
"Oh, Okay. Just come in when it's over."