I haven’t had time to write about the awful drug raid in Ogden, Utah just yet. But the gist is that a veteran who apparently grew marijuana to self-medicate for anxiety and depression apparently shot and killed one cop and wounded several others during a nighttime raid on his home. This is the same narcotics task force, by the way, that shot and killed a man wielding a golf club five seconds after breaking down his door during a botched meth raid last year. That cop was forgiven for his mistake. Heat of battle, volatile situation, mistakes were made—you know the drill.
Perhaps we’ll soon learn that Matthew Stewart was a big-time drug dealer hell-bent on taking down a team of cops. We don’t know enough yet to say anything for certain. But from what we do know, it doesn’t appear that way. The guy had no prior criminal record. And the article below suggests that the authorities are already setting expectations for the possibility that Stewart was just a guy who grew for his own use.
Here’s a DEA flack defending the raid and pointing out the (very real, though not in the way he’d have you believe) dangers of pot smoking.
I have a friend who was killed by a cop on her 30th birthday because she was in a car with a guy who was wanted on some minor warrant.
ReplyDeleteA cop tried to stop him, he put the pedal to the metal, and instead of giving up the chase because it was a minor offense, the cop continued to pursue at speeds in excess of 110 mph through residential areas of urban Portland. (Ironically, my friend was deathly afraid of being in a car when the driver was exceeding the speed limit. She would ask to be let out, and would walk to where she was going, rather than ride with someone who was speeding.)
The driver eventually failed to make a turn, her arm was ripped off at the shoulder as they sideswiped a tree, and moments later she was ejected through the front windshield.
I'm not condoning having outstanding warrants, the driver's role in the tragedy, etc. Just saying the cop chose to use lethal vehicular force over a non-violent offense, and that--although all too common--was wrong. The driver went to prison for a few years for involuntary manslaughter, but the cop was never even prosecuted.
And it was just a minor squib buried in the newspaper. Why was there no public outrage over this innocent young woman's death at the hands of the police?
Why was there no public outrage over this innocent young woman's death at the hands of the police?
ReplyDeleteCovered up as most everything inconvenient is by today's corrupt press. That's a shame about your friend. You might enjoy this.
"The Business Of Journalists Is To Destroy Truth"
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=144&highlight=editorial
"Michael and Sonja Stewart say they can’t understand why the strike force would execute a search warrant the way that it did, knocking down the door and rushing into the residence…."
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Why? Because they are a bunch of sociopaths hell bent on using brute force and automatic weapons in any situation that they possibly can to satisfy their addiction to adrenilin. It's their drug of choice. That's why they become SWAT cops.
Frank Smith is obviously a f'n idiot. He's the kind of guy who will use whatever story is necessary to justify anything that "the only ones" do. His ethics are situational, his morality is non-existant.
Fuck these assholes.
There ya go getting me all wound up again, Brock. :)
ReplyDelete:) & legalize drugs! Maybe Ron Paul will let me be his pro-drug czar!:)
ReplyDeleteBecause they are a bunch of sociopaths hell bent on using brute force and automatic weapons in any situation that they possibly can to satisfy their addiction to adrenilin. It's their drug of choice. That's why they become SWAT cops.
Frank Smith is obviously a f'n idiot. He's the kind of guy who will use whatever story is necessary to justify anything that "the only ones" do. His ethics are situational, his morality is non-existant.
Fuck these assholes.