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The toddler the police threw a grenade at has a hole in his chest


               
2014 Aug 29, 5:33am   2,250 views  9 comments

by Dan8267   follow (4)  

A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

The only silver lining I can possibly see is that my baby Bou Bou's story might make us angry enough that we stop accepting brutal SWAT raids as a normal way to fight the “war on drugs.” I know that this has happened to other families, here in Georgia and across the country. I know that SWAT teams are breaking into homes in the middle of the night, more often than not just to serve search warrants in drug cases. I know that too many local cops have stockpiled weapons that were made for soldiers to take to war. And as is usually the case with aggressive policing, I know that people of color and poor people are more likely to be targeted. I know these things because of the American Civil Liberties Union's new report, and because I'm working with them to push for restraints on the use of SWAT.

A few nights ago, my 8-year-old woke up in the middle of the night screaming, “No, don't kill him! You're hurting my brother! Don't kill him.” How can I ever make that go away? I used to tell my kids that if they were ever in trouble, they should go to the police for help. Now my kids don't want to go to sleep at night because they're afraid the cops will kill them or their family. It's time to remind the cops that they should be serving and protecting our neighborhoods, not waging war on the people in them.

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1   Tenpoundbass   2014 Aug 29, 6:07am  

Hope you're enjoying change.

2   Bellingham Bill   2014 Aug 29, 6:52am  

gsr says

But the Koch brothers, boogeymen of national Democrats

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

The Kochs, with their familial dealings with Stalin back in the day, being a double example.

3   gsr   2014 Aug 29, 7:57am  

Bellingham Bill says

gsr says

But the Koch brothers, boogeymen of national Democrats

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

The Kochs, with their familial dealings with Stalin back in the day, being a double example.

A half truth is always more dangerous than a lie. At least the wiki has it right.

>>In 1928, Koch traveled to the Soviet Union searching for business opportunities, but he came to despise communism and Joseph Stalin's regime,[6][7] writing in his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, that he found the Soviet Union to be "a land of hunger, misery, and terror".

4   Strategist   2014 Aug 29, 8:44am  

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

The father needs to ask why the kid wasn't armed and wasn't prepared to protect home and hearth like a real fucking American and blow the fucking interlopers the fuck away, EXACTLY THE WAY THE FOUNDING FUCKING FATHERS THE FUCK INTENDED.

You come near the fucking house without an invitation?

YOU DIE!!!

You approach the kid lets with murderous intent?

YOU DIE!!!

He's just a baby. The father should have started baseball practice early. All the kid had to do was pitch it right back.

5   Ceffer   2014 Aug 29, 10:07am  

Kids are pretty resilient. If his head is still attached, he should heal up just fine.

6   drew_eckhardt   2014 Aug 29, 11:17am  

Yet another reason contraband should not be a legal concept.

7   Bellingham Bill   2014 Aug 29, 11:25am  

>that he found the Soviet Union to be "a land of hunger, misery, and terror".

vs.

"The first Winkler–Koch plants were set up in Tuapse in 1930. The cracking unit operated commendably, and would in the future be the type preferred by the heads of the Soviet Union's petroleum industry when purchasing new cracking equipment. In 1931, two Winkler–Koch cracking units were launched in Baku, another two in Batumi, and six at once in Grozny; the last had a combined refining capacity of 900,000 tons per year. In 1932, a Winkler–Koch unit commenced operations in Yaroslavl."

Koch père turned anti-communist when the Khrushchev gov't no longer wanted to deal with him, LOL

8   MisdemeanorRebel   2014 Aug 29, 12:20pm  

Ford operated Ford Werks in Germany, and used French POW labor there until the US and Axis were at war. IBM provided concentration camp and political prisoner status punch cards to Hitler, too.

The T-34 used the Christie Track Chasis.

9   Dan8267   2014 Aug 30, 7:42am  

jazz music says

They will lie to protect each other. This who won't will be hounded and stalked out of the police force ensuring that the bad cops are in control.

So much for "few bad apples" argument. If they are not going to do wrong they have nothing to fear from witnesses and cameras. They've been telling us that shit since day one.

Exactly.

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