SWAT police raid wrong house in Worcester

OOPS they did it again. At least they didn’t murder the guy in cold blood. He should be thanking Worcester’s finest.

7News Boston WHDH-TV

WORCESTER, Mass. (WHDH) – A Worcester family is demanding answers after the State Police and a Worcester SWAT team raided their house by mistake.

Bryant Alequin, 23, said he was getting ready for work early Wednesday morning when someone charged up their stairwell and kicked in their front door.

“It was 5:30 in the morning, they came in the house, they didn’t want to disclose any information,” said Alequin. “It was traumatizing.”

Alequin said the officers told him to shut up when he asked about his wife and children, who were also in the apartment. What made it worse was the police had raided the wrong house.

“We want a full investigation into this,” said Alequin, who said he and his family are afraid of being in their own house now. “We just want to find out who’s accountable.”

Worcester Police did not respond to a request for comment. Alequin said his family has hired a lawyer, who has sent a letter to the city.

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anarchyst
anarchyst

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt . . .”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
It’s getting close to “pushback” time, here in the USA…I don’t want to see it happen, but the way police forces are acting, and getting away with murder…maybe the time is coming…

Anonymous
Anonymous

I wonder if anyone being wrongly raided in an unannounced raid has ever fired on and wounded or killed one of the attackers and what happened to him?

Seems someone innocent of anything would assume a home invasion if armed invaders just started breaking in without warning, and an armed defense would be appropriate in that circumstance.

I know they -the police- kill or seriously harm their victims in these raids on a fairly frequent basis, but are they ever killed instead?

Police taking part in these armed invasions need to be held to a much higher standard that the average police officer. One carrying criminal punishments since they go through a deliberate planning and are not acting on the spur of the moment in an encounter on the street would seem appropriate to me.

Russia Is Strong
Russia Is Strong

Every time I ask a stupid, gun-owning Americunt the question, “what the fuck do you want your guns for?” I invariably get back the answer, “I’ll need them to protect myself in case our government ever becomes tyrannical!”

Well? Why aren’t you asswipes “protecting” yourselves? I’ll tell you why: it’s not GUNS that protects you from government tyranny, it’s HAVING BALLS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEJniCCuqR4

harry p.
harry p.

Make the cops personally liable (or police union) and end the lawsuit/ settlement coming from public funds and this shit would all but disappear.

anarchyst
anarchyst

There is much angst and consternation against prosecutors and grand juries who refuse to bring charges against police officers, even when incontrovertible evidence is presented. Even with incontrovertible audio and video evidence, prosecutors are loath to prosecute rogue law enforcement personnel.
Let’s examine the reasons why it is so difficult to prosecute thug cops:
Most prosecutors are former police officers or have extensive dealings with police departments and have ongoing relationships with police departments in their respective jurisdictions. They are friendly with the judges in their jurisdictions, as well. This, along with “absolute immunity” makes it easy for them to “cover up” police abuses and behavior. Prosecutors cannot be sued for malfeasance…it takes a judge (who prosecutors are friendly with) to bring charges on a rogue prosecutor (which almost never happens).
In addition, prosecutors guide the actions of grand juries. Prosecutors are not required to introduce any evidence to grand juries, (can and do) easily “whitewash” the actions of rogue cops. On the other hand, prosecutors can (and often do) go after honest citizens who seek justice outside official channels…prosecutors have ultimate power and are not afraid to use it…their immunity sees to that.
Another aspect to a grand jury’s inability to prosecute bad cops is the fear of retribution…cops drive around all day, have nothing but time, have access to various databases, and can easily get the names and addresses of grand jurors…this, in itself can be a powerful deterrent against grand jurors who “want to do the right thing” and prosecute bad cops. There are many cases of cops parking in front of grand jurors’ residences, following them around, and threaten to issue citations to them, in order to “convince” them to “make the right decision”…the “thin blue line” at its worst…
The whole system has to change.
Eliminate absolute and qualified immunity for all public officials. The fear of personal lawsuits would be a powerful deterrent against abuses of the public.
Any funds disbursed to civilians as a result of official misconduct must be taken from the police pension funds–NOT from the taxpayers.
Grand juries must be superior to the prosecutor; ALL evidence must be presented to grand jurors. Failure to do so must be considered a felony and subject prosecutors to prosecution themselves.
No police agency can be allowed to investigate itself. Internal affairs departments must be restricted to minor in-house investigations of behavior between cops. All investigations must be handled by outside agencies, preferably at the state level.
Civilian police review boards must be free of police influence. Members of civilian review boards must have NO ties to police departments. Relatives of police would be prohibited from serving…Recently, the “supreme court” threw police another “bone”. The court ruled that police are not responsible for their actions if they are “ignorant of the law”…now, let’s get this straight–honest citizens cannot use “ignorance of the law” as an excuse, but cops can??
Revolution is sorely needed…..

anarchyst
anarchyst

Here are “police” practices that deserve to be exposed:

#1. During a traffic stop, the police officer will touch the back of your car. The reason for this “touch” is that, quite often, the police officer will have a small quantity of narcotics (marijuana or cocaine) on him (in his hand) that he will rub on the car in order to help “justify a search”. When the dog is brought in, it will react to “cues” from its handler as well as the drug residue on the vehicle and help “justify a search”. This tactic is mostly used against young people. Drugs can also be “planted” on a “suspect”.
The “touch” used to be a way for police officers to “prove” that they had an interaction with a citizen, but no more . . .

#2. Most (if not all) cops possess a “throwdown” weapon. This “helper” is obtained from a criminal who is then “let go” without his weapon and is always used to justify a questionable police situation and to “sanitize” a “crime scene to absolve police on the scene of criminal police behavior.

#3. If you are in the back of a police car, LIE DOWN on the seat. Police use the concept of “screening” to abuse their unwilling “passenger”. This involves, driving at high rates of speed, violent turns and other antics to get the passenger to “hit the screen” separating the front from the back with his face. Hence the act of “screening”.

#4. If you are being handcuffed, quite often the police officer will wrench you arm behind you, forcing you to “turn around”. The officer will then add a charge of “assault” to whatever other charges they concoct against you (just for being forced to turn around). They “pile on” charges, hoping you will plead guilty to at least one.

Remember–NEVER CONSENT TO SEARCH . . . You must be polite, but firm in your refusal. You can state that “you NEVER consent to searches” as well as using these “magic” words–“am I free to go?” The police officer MUST answer your question . . . If you are being detained and an illegal search takes place, you have legal recourse.

Remember–police are not your friends . . .

That being said, not all “law enforcement” is criminal, but the “thin blue line” that they so jealously guard (and “look the other way” when rogue cops abuse their authority) does much to taint ALL “law enforcement” with having ulterior motives.

Russia Is Strong
Russia Is Strong

The more thumbs down I get from you American’t asswipes, the more I know I’m on the right side of things.

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