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I always assumed that the major job of the police and especially SWAT police was to apprehend really dangerous people and not people who fail to make loan payments on time. What do you think? Are the police right to kick in people's doors with M-16 guns and drag them and their kids outside in their underwear over a loan? SWAT Team Kicks Down Front Door to Collect on Student Loan [VIDEO] - NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS
the raid was carried out by Federal Special Agents of the Office of the Inspector General for the DOE based on criminal investigation of Wright's estranged wife and not by a SWAT team for a student loan default.
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Financial Aid Fraud, Conspiracy, Theft of Government Funds, Making a False Statement to Government Agency and Wire Fraud.
Actually, there is nothing in the warrant to support 13 armed agents invading a home, nor any indication this was not a scatter shot array of charges based on student loan fraud issues. Nor anything to support there was a threat of violence or that his estranged wife would be present. Going out on a limb here and guessing this would not have gone down in the same fashion in an upper middle class neighborhood.
But hey, give a bunch of boys some toys and they will find a way to make use of them.
THIS . . . THIS is our Department of Education . . .
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Wright's neighbors, who did not want to disclose their last names, said they saw the raid unfold.
"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or S.W.A.T team," across the street neighbor Becky said. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him."
According to Becky and her two children, the raid started at 6 a.m. with agents ramming down Wright's front door.
"I watched until I went to work at 10:45 and they were still out there," Becky said.
Her young daughter, Valerie, said she counted 13 agents and one Stockton police officer outside Wright's home.
"I felt really bad for those kids," said Becky about agents when they brought out Wright's three children. "They were crying really loud."
Think they could have just knocked on the door and asked if Mrs. Wright was home?
Must be budget-cut time. Go out and try to put on a show and look like a pack of jack-asses.
Sounds a whole lot like the Branch Davidians and Waco.
Should probably take the Department of Education's guns away and give them paddles.
Don't pay your student loans -- gonna get a paddlin'.
Sonds to me like a bunch of assumptions like the first reprots continues on the incident.It will all be brought up in court and sounds like the original source was lawyers ;really.
Actually, there is nothing in the warrant to support 13 armed agents invading a home, nor any indication this was not a scatter shot array of charges based on student loan fraud issues. Nor anything to support there was a threat of violence or that his estranged wife would be present. Going out on a limb here and guessing this would not have gone down in the same fashion in an upper middle class neighborhood.
But hey, give a bunch of boys some toys and they will find a way to make use of them.
Unfortunately the cops are very good at that. They like to dress up and play soldier and bully people around sometimes.
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