What’s So Bad

Monday 13 August 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

What’s so bad about cops busting in to the wrong house on a botched drug raid and shooting dogs, and then making the children caught up in the mess sit next to their bloody corpses for an extended period of time? Courthouse News Service:

They “handcuffed all of the inhabitants of the plaintiffs’ home except plaintiff Analese Franco who was forced, virtually naked, from her bed onto the floor at gunpoint by officers of the St. Paul Police Department SWAT team and officers of the St. Paul Police Department.”

The complaint states: “Upon forcibly breaching the plaintiffs’ home, defendants terrorized the plaintiffs at gun and rifle point.

“Each plaintiff was forced to the floor at gun and rifle point and handcuffed behind their backs.

“Defendants shot and killed the family dog and forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead pet and bloody pet for more than an hour while defendants continued to search the plaintiffs’ home.”

One child “was kicked in the side, handcuffed and searched at gunpoint,” the family says.

Another child, a girl, “a diabetic, was handcuffed at gunpoint and prevented by officer from obtaining and taking her medication, thus induced a diabetic episode as a result of low-blood sugar levels.”

And as bad as that is, the cops continued to search the residence even after they knew it was the wrong house.

During their illegal search, the officers found a .22 revolver in the basement bedroom of plaintiff Gilbert Castillo. The cops “improperly attributed the possession of said weapon to plaintiff Roberto Franco and arrested him.”

“Plaintiff Roberto Franco was wrongfully convicted of the alleged offense and is currently incarcerated with the Minnesota Department of Corrections,” the complaint states.

Anything to keep just one more person from doing drugs? A family destroyed during a drug bust gone utterly wrong is no big deal, right?

2012-08-13  »  madlibertarianguy