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> “If she hadn’t been selling illegal items out of the home, no warrant would have been served,” he said. “What you call extreme, we call safe.” The thing that
by IkmoIkmo 12y ago
> “If she hadn’t been selling illegal items out of the home, no warrant would have been served,” he said. “What you call extreme, we call safe.”
The thing that disgusts me the most is not the fact she received a wallet. The cop seems to think (or at least avert the question) that the warrant was the problem. The journalist doesn't mention this because this comment is just so clearly ridiculous that his silence is probably more powerful than to point out the obvious.
I will, in any case. The issue is that you can have a warrant for Osama Bin Laden, and you can have a warrant for an elderly lady who sells some home made food without a license to scrape by.
And for the latter you just don't throw a freaking explosive into her home. It's ridiculous. What, was she going to take her Samurai Sword and invisibility cloak and go on a murderous rampage? This woman is described as a diminutive grandmother for crying out loud. You literally could have knocked on the door like any of her customers buying food and told her to come to the station. Yet they treat her home like a siege in a game of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
- brazzy 12y ago> This woman is described as a diminutive grandmother for crying out loud. Ah, but don't the second amendement defenders keep reminding everyone that guns are the "great equalizer" that allows elderly ladies to be just as dangerous as a 250lbs steroid addict? This is the logical conclusion: the police treat every arrest like a battlefield operation because it could conceivably turn out to be exactly that.
- mod 12y agoMaybe they could have come to the logical conclusion that the best way to arrest this woman would be to approach her while she's selling her illegal things again, in the same manner as the first time. Maybe in plainclothes again. They didn't seem so worried about it during the buy operation.
- jrmurad 12y agoLogical conclusion? So you believe, in the absence of the 2nd Amendment (which allows law-abiding citizens to arm themselves), police executing warrants against suspected law-breaking criminals can safely assume that their targets wouldn't possibly be in violation of gun control regulations?