Wednesday, May 05, 2010

How America deals with nonviolent, misdemeanor level crime - "Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family."

The system is ridiculously broken; evil.

Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family | The Agitator
"In February, I wrote the following about a drug raid in Missouri... 
Now there’s video, which you can watch below. It’s horrifying, but I’d urge you to watch it, and to send it to the drug warriors in your life. This is the blunt-end result of all the war imagery and militaristic rhetoric politicians have been spewing for the last 30 years—cops dressed like soldiers, barreling through the front door middle of the night, slaughtering the family pets, filling the house with bullets in the presence of children, then having the audacity to charge the parents with endangering their own kid. There are 100-150 of these raids every day in America, the vast, vast majority like this one, to serve a warrant for a consensual crime."

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