{"id":30174,"date":"2012-05-30T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30174"},"modified":"2012-05-30T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:02:09","slug":"swat-rampage-on-vets-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30174","title":{"rendered":"Metro DC SWAT’s rampage on vet’s home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snafudude sends us a link from Emily Miller, my new crush at the Washington Times<\/a>, who writes about gun issues. She describes the scene at Matthew Corrigan’s apartment in February 2010. We discussed Corrigan here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a> when he mistakenly called a suicide hotline and got the DC Metro SWAT crowd instead of the help he was seeking. But here’s some of Emily Miller’s report on what we haven’t heard yet;<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cops said we needed to leave our house because Matt was going to shoot through the ceiling,\u201d Ms. Sommons [Corrigan’s neighbor] said. \u201cThey painted this picture like Rambo was downstairs and ready to blow up the place.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suddenly a police commander jumped in the truck and demanded to know where Sgt. Corrigan put his house key. He refused. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not giving you the key. I\u2019m not giving consent to enter my house,\u201d Sgt. Corrigan recalled saying in an interview with me last week at D.C. Superior Court after the city dropped all 10 charges against him. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen the cop said to me, \u2018I don\u2019t have time to play this constitutional bullshit with you. We\u2019re going to break your door in, and you\u2019re going to have to pay for a new door.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Looks like I\u2019m buying a new door,\u2019\u201d Sgt. Corrigan responded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, this is what I don’t understand; I know the woman from the hotline made it sound like Corrigan was dangerous and got their adrenaline flowing, but once Corrigan was outside and unarmed, not at all aggressive, what is their justification for treating him like a criminal with no evidence of a crime? I guess more succinctly; who do they think they are?<\/p>\n

Yeah, I almost understand their behavior in the early moments of their raid because they had faulty information, but once he was in custody, why all the angry cop stuff?<\/p>\n

But you should read the whole article and catch the pieces I left out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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