Wrong Door Raid: Cops Kill Dog, Search House Anyway

Posted on August 10, 2012 by novahockey

What do you do if you have a search warrant with the wrong address? Why kill the family pet, handcuff the kids next to the fluffy corpse and search the house anyway!

Even after learning that they were in the wrong house, the complaint states, the drug busters stayed in the Francos’ home and kept searching it.

But wait, there’s more! Why not double-down by by denying a diabetic child her medicine?

But its fine, after an hour search they turned up a .22 pistol.

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  1. bannedagain5446's avatar
    bannedagain5446, on August 10, 2012 at 7:25 am said:

    Don’t let the president know. He’ll probably want them all detained in an undisclosed location.

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    lmsinca, on August 10, 2012 at 7:56 am said:

    Is it just me or have we been hearing about more and more over zealous cops lately? Between the tasering and awful beatings you’d think crime was going up not down. I don’t get it.

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  3. yellojkt's avatar
    yellojkt, on August 10, 2012 at 9:51 am said:

    The classic example of this in the DC area from a few years ago is that the Prince Georges county police raided a guys house complete with the seemingly mandatory dog shooting only to find out he was the mayor of the town. It lead to a huge investigation to how much the cops are relying on no-knock warrants and paramilitary assaults. That tale always makes me wonder just how many times this happens to less well-connected people.

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  4. novahockey's avatar
    novahockey, on August 10, 2012 at 9:59 am said:

    http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

    i’m not sure how up to date this is, but it is a map of “botched” raids

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  5. jnc4p's avatar
    jnc4p, on August 10, 2012 at 10:10 am said:

    “lmsinca, on August 10, 2012 at 7:56 am said:

    Is it just me or have we been hearing about more and more over zealous cops lately? Between the tasering and awful beatings you’d think crime was going up not down. I don’t get it.”

    It’s all part of the War on Drugs. As we all know, once you define something as a “War”, any and all tactics are justified.

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    okiegirl, on August 10, 2012 at 11:30 am said:

    “As we all know, once you define something as a “War”, any and all tactics are justified.”

    They should have just sent in the drones to kill all of them and they could have avoided this lawsuit.

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