Yeah the more I read about this, the more I don't know what to believe.
Louisville sounds like such a First-World <Bleep>hole
that they should just burn it to the ground and start from scratch.
But where are we gonna find someone to d...never mind, they've got that covered.
12:40am no-knock warrant executed by plain clothes officers. What could possibly go wrong?
Were they dressed as hippies?
Because that's a thing.
GOA:
H.R. 666 and the Assault on the Bill of Rights
In June of 1971,
four BATF officers burst into the home of Ken Ballew. The tragic events which followed show clearly how renegade officers will always try to justify their actions after brutalizing the innocent. Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) explained on the House floor what happened:
“BATF first entered an apartment upstairs where they held a shotgun at the head of some 8-year-old children. When they found they had raided the wrong place, they then went downstairs, and they broke through a back door in the man’s home. . . . They seized the man’s wife and threw her into the hall in only her underpants. Mr. Ballew was coming out of the shower with a cap and ball revolver seeking to defend his home and his wife against a noisy band of intruders who bore no indicia of their service as law enforcement officers.”
The result? BATF officers shot Mr. Ballew in the head. If he is still alive today, he is disabled and still partially paralyzed, incapable of speech — and unlike Jim Brady, he has never been available for Congressional testimony.
After the assault, the officers quickly began justifying their actions. Dingell explains:
“They [the BATF officers] went outside, still dressed as hippies with beards and in scruffy clothes, and at which time they first put on their BATF armbands to show that they were law enforcement officers engaged in proper exercise of their legal authority, and that they had given proper warning to the individual of their authority which, in fact, they had not.”
The officers immediately tried to justify their actions. And while Mr. Ballew did not have illegal evidence, this case clearly demonstrates how officers will always want to justify their actions. It’s human nature. At times, they may even be willing to lie.
“Indeed, the [Ballew raid] was classed as a training exercise,” Rep. Dingell explained. “This whole unfortunate matter was covered up under the aegis of Mr. Connelly, the then-Secretary of the Treasury.”
What was stupid here is the timing to me. If you want to search a house the most logical time is when there are the least number of people there.
They probably had a hard-on for arresting the occupants
immediately if they did find contraband.
The last thing the cops want is some next-door neighbor
calling Taylor, et. al. while they're out on the town,
"hey, the cops broke in to your apartment"
and that's the last you see of them...