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The Poor Man has been warning readers about the U.S.’s police-state antics for years.
Truth is the greatest enemy of the state and
the state is the greatest enemy of the people
Another No
Knock Raid Terrorizes Family
David and
Connie Johnson were asleep when they heard a noise Connie later described as
the “walls caving in.” Seconds later their
front door was forced open and two armored strangers burst into the two-room
apartment the middle-aged couple share
with their adult son, Aaron.
Several other
assailants were clustered behind the two who had forced open the door. One of
them was a female holding a leash that barely restrained a large, snarling dog.
One of the intruders pointed an assault rifle at David’s head and threatened to
shoot him. Another invader, a female, bellowed, “Put your hands up! This dog
will bite you!”
David was
seized and shackled. Connie and Aaron were also dragged from their home.
Neighbors who were drawn by the commotion poked their heads out and were
ordered to go back into their
rooms.
At no point in
this encounter did the intruders identify themselves as police
officers.
Two minutes
later, the SWAT team that had terrorized the Johnsons arrested the
Johnsons’ neighbor, Bill
Gerst, who had been accused by a woman of threatening her. Gerst was forced to
crawl on his belly toward the officers in order to be handcuffed.
“What’s going
on?” Gerst repeatedly asked, plaintively explaining that there was nobody else
in his apartment.
Gerst
persisted in trying to find out why the cops had laid siege to his home.
“You shut your
mouth!” one of the raiders snapped.
The police
later told the Johnsons that they were dealing
with a “homicide in progress.” No firearm, and no evidence of any criminal
activity, was found during the February 21, 2013 raid.
According
to a
lawsuit filed by the Johnson family, “The information used to justify the
no-warrant raid on Mr. Gerst’s apartment was shaky and legally suspect.”
Specifically, it was a hearsay allegation made by someone who knew a woman
named Hilda Valle, who is described in the suit as “a petty criminal who had
reported to police that she had argued with Mr. Gerst and that he had
threatened her with violence.”
At the request
of the neighboring Nampa Police Department, which received the tip, a tactical
team from the Caldwell Police Department conducted what they call a “welfare
check” that was actually a guns-drawn, no-knock,
SWAT-style raid. The Caldwell PD claimed knowledge of “the presence of guns at
the premises” – which, according to the
standard “threat matrix,” supposedly justifies a paramilitary assault.
Although the
officers claim they were dealing with a “homicide in progress,” Police
audio of the incident documents that the officers didn’t know the
specific apartment number – which means that the door-kick on the Johnsons’
home – which could easily have resulted in a homicide — was the product of a
whimsical guess.
Gerst is a
young black man. The police had his description, but they didn’t have his
address. David Johnson is a middle-aged white man. This distinction was so
obvious that it wouldn’t have been missed even by the typical police officer
within a few seconds of the door breach.
If the police
had knocked on the door and announced
their presence – as they are required to do, by law, unless there is evidence
of imminent danger to an innocent person – they wouldn’t have terrorized an
innocent family in a near-midnight raid, nor would they have inflicted significant and expensive damage to the property of an
economically marginal household.
Here are just a few stories about the U.S. police state from the past year:
Police State: Watch Iowa Cops Go SWAT On Family Home During Fruitless Warrant Raid
‘We Are Now In A Police State’: Washington’s Blog Interviews Former Top NSA Official
Turning Mass Shootings Into A Police State And Other Games
Sign This Petition Supporting A Nazi-Style Orwellian American Police State
Justice Shouldn’t Investigate Zimmerman, It Should Investigate The Police State
Illinois Lawmaker Welcomes Police State As Palliative To Murder In ‘Gun Free’ Chicago
Proof Of A U.S. Police State
Become a Cop Watcher-Use the Free Handbook
So You Want To Watch The Police and
Do It Great?
Copwatch Handbook from Berkeley Copwatch is a valuable read for those who want to go out and
proactively document police as a means to keep our community safe from police
terror.
Bruce ‘the Poor Man’
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