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Toddler critically injured by flashbang during SWAT raid
A toddler was critically injured by a flashbang during an early morning SWAT raid in Georgia Wednesday.
SWAT breached an Atlanta residence around 3 a.m. in search for Wanis Thometheva, 30, who was wanted for selling drugs. They deployed a flashbang, but the device landed in 19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh’s playpen, WSB-TV reports.
The baby was severely injured by the blast and was transported to an area hospital, where he was placed in a medically induced coma.
“It landed in his playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face,” said the boy’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh. “It blew open his face and his chest. Everybody was asleep. It’s not like anyone was trying to fight.”
According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the raid took place after a confidential informant reported he had purchased methamphetamine from Thometheva.
Law enforcement officials were familiar with Thometheva, who had prior drug and firearm related arrests. He wasn’t home at the time of the raid but was captured later on at another residence.
Cornelia Police Chief Rick Darby said the operation was a multijurisdictional effort. He added there was no indication children were present in the home.
“There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home. If there had been then we’d have done something different,” Darby said.
Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said injuring an innocent child was the last thing he wanted to happen.
“The last thing you want is law enforcement to injure someone innocent,” Terrell said. “There was no malicious act performed. It was a terrible accident that was never supposed to happen.”
Doctors say baby Phonesavanh has about a 50 percent chance of surviving his wounds, but say they won’t know for certain for at least several weeks.
“Our hearts are broken with them because of the child,” Terrell added.
“Protect and Serve?” John
From what I see the cops have become lazy and brutal. What happened to just staking out the apartment and pinching the perp when he leaves. No that would take too much time and you wouldn’t be able to use all of your fun new military toys. The worst part is that this is the new normal for the police and other domestic armed forces. Swat raids have gone from a few hundred a year in the 1970′s to about 80,000 a year. If that’s not a recipe for disaster I don’t know what is. Someone should publish all the cops in this raids faces and the people of that city should be at their personal homes protesting the violence they have perpetrated, but that will not happen. Sad, just sad.
Bob.
The cops claim the parents knew drugs were being sold out of the house, the cops claim they bought drugs out of the house two hours before the attack, the cops claim the attack at 3:00am was justified to stop domestic terrorist from selling drugs, they claim this is the drug sellers fault and they would do the same thing again.
The people will believe anything the cops claim because they are more concerned about kim and that black guys wedding and some fat fuck kardashian who didn’t show.
The president is concerned about high school athletes concussions, the mooshell is concerned about her healthy lunch initiative has been de-funded by evil republicans.
The silence is always loudest after a flash grenade blows up a baby apparently.
An informant tells a copfuk that some guy sold him amphetamine so they send in a swat team at 3:AM…for a non-violent petty crime? This is the story here, not police brutality or criminality, but as bostonbob said, the absurd overuse of swat teams.
Scotty, beam me to Mayberry.
Bob, I think the issue is the fed gov has placed a bounty on drug dealers thanks to the war on drugs. So local copfucks want to arrest as many suspected drug dealers they can to collect the bounty, these people can be innocent, it doesn’t matter, cops still get the bounty, the local copfucks also get to keep anything they want to sell later to bolster their budgets, again it doesn’t matter if they are innocent or not. The law is in favor of the cops.
Then if we look at all the military gear these cops have thanks to the wars, these cops now have a “use it or lose it” mentality.
SWAT teams with new No Knock Rules are now used in place of the stakeout, and they are trained to take out the terrorist in body bags, not handcuffs.
Yeah, cops are not your friend.
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A picture of the Godless drug dealer, the kid’s dad. Looks to be Thai, Filipino, or the like. He’ll be a multimillionaire before long, I’m sure the lawyers are lining up around the block for this one.
Another victim of the war on drugs. Your tax dollars at work. What a fucking joke, Americans consume more illegal drugs by far than any other country on the planet. Living in this country is so miserable people have to take drugs just to cope.
Why the fuck would they need a flash-bang to take down a drug dealer? Why don’t they just drag the people out their house (like in Boston) and execute them with one to the back of the head? Yea, drugs are so dangerous, unlike SWAT teams, the DHS, Obama, Holder, Pelosi, Reid, the government, our military, the NSA, CIA, IRS. The people doing the most to destroy this country are given a pass every single day.
And millions of Mexican drug dealers and criminals are let out of jail, and sneaking across the border every day, but that’s okay, because they’ll vote democrat and get on welfare/food stamps. But we can’t have people doing drugs, self-medicating so they don’t blow their brains out because of all the hypocrisy and bullshit. Pathetic.
The device landed in a playpen but there was ” nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home.” How does that work?
Nothing but business as usual, damage control, cloud the waters of public opinion as much as possible. Agree with Zara, what are we doing conducting operations like this for such trivial matters.
“The war on terror”
An unmitigated failure, spending tens of billions, the government has yet to catch one terrorist. The real victims are the American people, loss of liberty and freedom. People are spied on, and people who support the Constitution and Freedom are now considered terrorists.
“The war on poverty”
An unmitigated failure. We’ve spent $20 trillion, and only produced more people on welfare, and the poverty level hasn’t changed. We now have more people on welfare than the entire population of Germany. We have the biggest welfare state in the history of the world.
“The war on drugs”
An unmitigated failure. The DEA and militarized police have failed to stem the supply or consumption of illegal drugs one iota. Drugs are more plentiful and cheaper than ever.
The government is the enemy, the statist fascists, the socialists, they are the real enemy.
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I feel the need to fess up, my daughter got busted yesterday. While stopped at a stop sign, she removed her GPS to read traffic conditions. $350. 7X the amount she made that day trying to work her way through college.
Another innocent casualty of the insane WoD
Why don’t the copfuks burst into the office of the CEO of Pfizer for dealing Xanax to the kid in Santa Barbara that killed 7 people?
Oh yeah – drug dealing by mega-corporations is legal.
Death penalty for the cops involved.
underfire
Checking traffic conditions eventually leads to more serious crimes. You’re lucky they got to her before it was too late. Maybe therapy and some Xanax will cure her.
The number of cops has quadrupled, corrections officers have quadrupled, we have more people in prison than any other country in history, all fighting drug use, which hasn’t changed in 50 years. And because of marijuana use, the DEA and drug task forces throughout the country are desperate to keep their jobs and billion dollar budgets. They will get more and more desperate as laws ease up on drug use. This type of thing will become the norm as the number of perps gets smaller. Book it danno.
House votes to halt federal meddling in medical marijuana
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/30/house-votes-halt-federal-meddling-medical-marijuan/
AWD says:
The number of cops has quadrupled, corrections officers have quadrupled, we have more people in prison than any other country in history…
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At what point do we just throw up our hands and admit that the US is now Nazi Germany except that we worship Jews (because they own our bitch asses) rather than ostracize them? Fuck, maybe Nazi Germany pre-war was a nicer place to live…
All I’ve read says that Nazi Germany pre-1939 was a decent place to live if you were straight, German, protestant but not too religious, and willing to keep your mouth shut all the time.
The USA of today is a pretty decent place to live if you’re not straight, not white, not Christian (or at least not conservative Christian), and willing to put up with whatever vomit of lies the Obamination says that day.
So our Federal / State / Local governments have given the police the right to terrorize, assault, maim, or murder citizens just on suspicion.
All they need to do is ‘follow given procedures’. And they’re off the hook.
There needs to be clear levels of escalation before more drastic actions are taken.
AWD,
Did you see me in the background, I was the guy pissing on the tree right there on the Boston Commons. The Anarchist rally is not nearly as fun as the hempfest.
Bob.
Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park
Michael Krieger | Posted Thursday May 29, 2014 at 10:47 am
It is a well known historical trend that as discontent and dissent spread within a society, the power structure will look to demonize unpopular or weak minorities in order to deflect frustrations away from the true culprit, the power structure itself. Many feared in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that Muslims would serve as such a scapegoat, and indeed in many ways this occurred, although not to the extent that many feared. In my opinion, it is homeless people that are being increasingly demonized and treated as subhuman. I think that if we want to see how the state and crony corporate status quo will treat everyone in the future, all you have to do is look at the current “war on the homeless.”
If you think about, the homeless actually serve as the perfect scapegoat for a former American middle class slowly being driven into serfdom. Still completely mesmerized by the religion of consumerism, how is a population losing its freedom and financial well-being supposed to feel better about itself. The easy answer is to look at an even more destitute class and treat them like the “elites” treat everyone else. Like a superfluous and unfortunate outgrowth of humanity.
I strongly believe that it is just as important to show compassion for the least fortunate within society as it is to fight against the incredibly corrupt establishment. Failing to do so makes you no better than they are.
From ThinkProgress:
After feeding the hungry in a Daytona Beach park every weekend for more than a year, it’s just as easy to imagine Chico and Debbie Jimenez given a ticker-tape parade as what they actually got: a slew of citations and a permanent ban from the park.Chico and Debbie Jimenez, a husband and wife team, aren’t handing out food in the Florida heat every Wednesday because of a court order or for a paycheck. They do it because they believe helping the poor is their religious duty.
Every Wednesday, the Jimenezes feed more than a hundred people a hearty lunch with dishes of chicken patties, macaroni salad, and fresh vegetables, among others. The meals are entirely funded by private donations and staffed with volunteers.
However, Daytona Beach is one of a handful of cities that enacted ordinances barring individuals from serving food in public. Last week, nearly a half-dozen police officers showed up at Manatee Island Park, where a long line of people had queued to get a meal, and served citations to the Jimenezes and volunteers.
According to the group’s Facebook page, Chico and Debbie, along with four volunteers, were each given multiple 2nd degree misdemeanor citations. The fines totaled $373 per person, $2,238 for the group. The police also permanently banned the group from Manatee Island Park. “We both have made a lot of good friends in the park and are devastated that we are banned the Manatee Park forever,” Debbie wrote. “I am heartbroken.”
Can’t arrest a single banker, but police sure are good at stopping citizens from feeding the hungry. Sick.
Daytona Beach is just the latest city to crack down on groups that feed the poor in city parks. Other recent examples range from Birmingham to St. Louis to Raleigh to Philadelphia to Orlando. A 2010 report from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty identified more than a dozen other cities with restrictions and found an uptick in the number of new ordinances.
The Jimenezes, who both left jobs more than a year ago to focus on ministry full-time, were upset about the developments, but told the News-Journal that they planned to challenge the citations rather than pay them. “We are ‘ NOT Criminals ‘ and feeding ‘ Hungry folks ‘ is not a crime,” the couple said.
I’ve written several articles on this theme in the past. I suggest checking them out:
The Homeless in NYC Are Now Living in Tiny Spaces in the Frame of the Manhattan Bridge
Illinois Church Told by City Officials it Can No Longer Provide Homeless People Shelter
South Carolina City Implements Law That Requires a $120 Permit to Feed the Homeless
Acting as a decent human being is increasingly becoming criminalized in America.
To update George Orwell’s famous statement for modern times:
In a world of universal narcissism, being a compassionate person is a revolutionary act.
Full article here.
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
Next step, they will roast a pregnant wife with a flamethrower during a wedding, finish the kids with a hammer, call an airstrike and find out it was the wrong house.
sorry ma’am. have a nice day
Sounds about right, Frenchie.
This story is damn close to that. It’s getting hard to read any of these stories without wanting to puke.
“Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park”
I hope this couple realizes where they screwed up. Here’s how it’s done…first you send 5K to the feds, they than match that 5K by shaking down your unborn great great great grandchildren, and than THEY give $746 to the homeless.
Admin….I’ve been concerned about the girl ever since she began showing signs of independent thinking, self responsibility, a desire to be productive, things like that. And she never did spend an appropriate amount of time in front of the tubes.
The device landed in a playpen but there was ” nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home.”
OK, let’s pretend that is true. So, it is perfectly OK to throw one of those in a house without children and potentially injure innocent (or heck, even the suspect) the same way.
Gotcha.
The message could not be more clear.
and here’s some more copfuk “heroes” quieting dissenting voices.
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If any of yon haven’t begun prepping for war with these low IQ mouth breathers, start now.