Monday, June 18, 2012

Ninth Circuit to DEA: Putting a Gun to an 11-Year-Old's Head Is Not OK

Via Don

But: ......the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals defended the agents' rough treatment of Thomas and Rosalie

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At 7 a.m. on January 20, 2007, DEA agents battered down the door to Thomas and Rosalie Avina’s mobile home in Seeley, California, in search of suspected drug trafficker Louis Alvarez. Thomas Avina met the agents in his living room and told them they were making a mistake. Shouting “Don’t you fucking move,” the agents forced Thomas Avina to the floor at gunpoint, and handcuffed him and his wife, who had been lying on a couch in the living room. As the officers made their way to the back of the house, where the Avina’s 11-year-old and 14-year-old daughters were sleeping, Rosalie Avina screamed, “Don’t hurt my babies. Don’t hurt my babies.”

The agents entered the 14-year-old girl’s room first, shouting “Get down on the fucking ground.” The girl, who was lying on her bed, rolled onto the floor, where the agents handcuffed her. Next they went to the 11-year-old’s room. The girl was sleeping. Agents woke her up by shouting “Get down on the fucking ground.” The girl’s eyes shot open, but she was, according to her own testimony, “frozen in fear.” So the agents dragged her onto the floor. While one agent handcuffed her, another held a gun to her head.

Moments later the two daughters were carried into the living room and placed next to their parents on the floor while DEA agents ransacked their home. After 30 minutes, the agents removed the children’s handcuffs. After two hours, the agents realized they had the wrong house—the product of a sloppy license plate transcription—and left.

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4 comments:

  1. And they (the agents) bear no responsibility, and will NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE irregardless of the circuit courts decision.
    That child will never forget, never "get over it", she is probably lucky to be alive.
    Tomorrow the agents (professional thugs) will do it all over again!

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    1. I think they are clueless about the fact that perhaps they are encouraging defiance by doing such acts. If that child has any steel in her, she will remember and she will be with us.
      Miss Violet

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  2. We know would should be done with them and it's going to happen.

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    1. Yes, door to door, block by block.
      Miss Violet

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