A Drug Raid Goes Viral: Radley Balko on the Missouri SWAT Raid
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Uploaded by ReasonTV on Jul 16, 2010
What happens when video of a routine police procedure is posted online? In the case of a Missouri SWAT raid, outrage, anger, and a viral sensation viewed over 1.2 million times.
Reason Magazine Senior Editor Radley Balko sat down with Nick Gillespie to discuss the raid, the video, and the fallout.
Approximately 10 minutes. Shot by Meredith Bragg and Dan Hayes. Edited by Bragg.
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@2hunt They had to fit into the camcorder's view, duh. That's the most you had to say on this? Why bother commenting at all in that case? It certainly contributes NOTHING to the point of conversation.
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How does SWAT get the right to violate people's rights in non-violent crimes??? The fact that this victim did not even commit a misdemeanor crime, yet his dog is killed, his 8 year old boy & his wife are scarred for life emotionally, where was their warrant? This was not for a murderer or rapist or thief in which such tactics might have been justified. For drug use, this is a severe abuse of police state tactics & misdemeanor crimes never justify this!
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Gibson guitars was recently raided by Federal thugs.
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If you try really hard and think about what the police have to do, they don't want any of their people to die. You have to act every time like it's a worst case scenario. If they ease up, they could die. Dog attacks could be a distraction for something else and they just have to play it safe. Don't be as mad at the police as you are mad at the fact they went in there at all, and that they went in there to get drugs and that they went in there with flimsy fucking evidence.
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The police officers are still the ones that commit the act. They are not forced or anything. They carry at least as much responsibility as the politicians.
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@yourjunk420 me too man. they get away with everything, and theyre quick to kill your pets, just cuz they can. i know people personally who have had their pets killed by police.
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@kbprojekty Did you watch the video? He was being ironic and condemning the police's action.
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@yourjunk420 Because of sporadic excessive force cases? When you're getting raped in the ass I hope a group of cops sits around laughing at your demise
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I fucking HATE cops!!!
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@000MrAnderson WAY too close. Ha
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All this over some weed?
TLaitharex 1 year ago 8
That was what I was getting at in 90 when I ran for state house of representatives here. Legalise the drugs, funnel the tax income to health and rehabilitation. The loss of profit will send MS13 back to the drawing board. Prohibition only insures high profits and the violence that surrounds it.
RWRamo 1 year ago 5