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This abuse of power by LE with no self control is becoming quite common. So instead of verifying a crook's address, they prefer to bust down the door and terrorize an innocent family.
Meanwhile, LE can do this with impunity until the citizens raise their voices to the politicians.
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MIDDLETOWN — Steve Tuppeny was in the garage of his Middletown home having a smoke at 6:15 a.m., his wife and daughter asleep inside, when the Wilmington SWAT officers made their move.
Dressed in black, several officers rushed Tuppeny, ordered him to lie face down on the ground and handcuffed him. Other SWAT officers smashed the storm door in the front of the Tuppenys’ two-story colonial-style home, then used a battering ram to break through the red front door.
Jennifer Tuppeny, a teacher at Marbrook Elementary School near Prices Corner, said she was asleep upstairs when officers threw open the door to her darkened bedroom and ordered her at gunpoint to get up.
The couple’s 8-year-old daughter was awakened out of a “dead sleep” by “men dressed in black with guns shining flashlights in her face,” Jennifer Tuppeny said.
without running afoul of Godwin's law, it's just unfortunate that people can look back at tyrannical gov't from times past with outrage, but they don't react when it happens right under their own noses.
They should really keep their Garmins updated with the latest software to insure correct addresses.
I read an article where SWAT also had the wrong address and raided an abandoned house
I LOL'd. I guess the overgrown weeds and broken windows didn't cause them to stop and think.
They made a mistake. It happens, nothing tyrannical about it. Did they refuse to release the guy? Police raiding bad addresses has been going on forever, just like fedex mis-delivering packages or the Romney campaign knowing they'd win big. Figure out why the mistake happened and try not to make it again.
They made a mistake. It happens, nothing tyrannical about it. Did they refuse to release the guy? Police raiding bad addresses has been going on forever, just like fedex mis-delivering packages or the Romney campaign knowing they'd win big. Figure out why the mistake happened and try not to make it again.
Just wow...having a SWAT team raid your home by mistake is like fedex delivering your package to the wrong address ?
You, my friend, have never been put in a position where the cops think you are the bad guy.
Just wow...having a SWAT team raid your home by mistake is like fedex delivering your package to the wrong address ?
You, my friend, have never been put in a position where the cops think you are the bad guy.
You my friend are delusional. They hit the wrong house by accident not intentionally. This happens in the military regularly but that's always excused. Cops like FedEx delivery people are just humans, that's all. They're going to make mistakes. Pretending that they intended to terrorize this family does nothing to actually solve the problem but hey, im rational.
You my friend are delusional. They hit the wrong house by accident not intentionally. This happens in the military regularly but that's always excused. Cops like FedEx delivery people are just humans, that's all. They're going to make mistakes. Pretending that they intended to terrorize this family does nothing to actually solve the problem but hey, im rational.
You never forget an incident like that. Intentional or not, that family was terrorized.
You cannot really understand until it happens to you.
It did happen to me but not by SWAT.
I got lost in a warehouse/industrial section of town while looking for a welding shop.
I was driving around in circles looking for the address.
Meanwhile..a robbery had occured there and the police were looking for the suspects.
(Didn't know that at the time).
I got stopped..thought it was a traffic stop (hey..that's the only reason I've ever been stopped while driving).
Surprise, surprise..cops had hands on holsters and yelled "get out of the car".
Got out of car. They asked for papers. I reached for pocketbook and they undid the snap on their holsters and they yelled "don't move". Just like in the movies my hands shot up in the air and the fear that hit me was nothing I had ever known. I thought I was going to get shot by them and die.
Guilty until proven innocent is NOT like fedex mis-delivering your package.
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