The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith
In an instance of police incompetence and unnecessarily endangered citizens, Pittsburgh is the scene ofyet another wrong home SWAT raid.
A woman is demanding answers after she said SWAT teams mistakenly raided her Sheraden home Tuesday.
Jessica Earnest told Channel 11 News that SWAT teams burst into her Faronia Street home Tuesday afternoon looking for a wanted man, but they had the wrong house.
Some of the damage left behind was overturned beds, an air vent cover pulled from the wall and ransacked rooms.
Earnest said officers handcuffed her with her two young children close by.
“The way they all came in here and just threw smoke bombs and kicked in the door, we could have gotten hurt,” Earnest said.
Earnest said she moved into the home less than a week ago and she’s never heard of the man police were looking for.
She said officers apologized and handed her a search warrant before they left. Channel 11’s Alan Jennings reported the warrant had bad information.
Yes, people could have gotten hurt. It’s happened before, to both innocent citizens and the police. If a dog had been in the home, it would have been killed so that the police could be assured of “going home safely at the end of their shift.” And it’s a good thing toddlers weren’t in their cribs either.
You have no right to invade my home, and there are easier ways to apprehend people. You do good detective work, find the individual of interest when he is away from other people, and use pepper spray if he resists.
But of course, that wouldn’t be as sexy as dressing up in Soldier-boy uniforms and tactical gear and being operators operating tactically with tactical gear while they operate, would it?
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2013/06/26/yet-another-wrong-home-swat-raid/
This won’t stop until homeowners and their neighbors ambush these so called ‘swat teams’….