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Title: I-TEAM: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House
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wcco.com
URL Source: http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html
Published: Jul 30, 2008
Author: Caroline Lowe
Post Date: 2008-07-30 11:40:38 by Indrid Cold
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Views: 156
Comments: 10
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) 53; On Monday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan handed out honors to a team of officers involved in a botched raid at an innocent family's home more than seven months ago. The family is upset and their attorney criticizes the awards and questions the timing. Just days before Christmas, the sound of intruders breaking into their home in North Minneapolis prompted Vang Khang to grab his shotgun to protect his six children. His terrified wife called 911. Khang fired several shots at the "intruders" who turned out to be members of the Minneapolis Police Department's SWAT team. The officers returned fire. Their protective gear prevented them from being harmed by the bullets. No one was hurt in the shootout last Dec. 16 and the Minneapolis Police Chief ordered an internal investigation. The house was left riddled with bullet holes and broken glass. Two days later, Dolan apologized to the family and launched an internal investigation to find out how the SWAT team wound up in an innocent family's house in the middle of the night. The investigation determined that the team had gone there looking for a gang member's guns after an informant gave investigators in the department's Violent Offenders Task Force bad information. The investigation is ongoing. On Monday, Dolan recognized members of the SWAT team for their bravery and how they handled the raid. With Mayor R.T. Rybak and other city officials looking on, the chief handed out medals and commendations. "The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out," Dolan told the crowd. "This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled." The Khang family was upset when they learned of the awards given to the SWAT team. "They were outraged and they were hurt. They were hurt. To this day this family continues to suffer," said their attorney, former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger. Heffelfinger said the family has notified the city that they plan to file a lawsuit over the botched raid. He questions the timing and motives for the award. "Why now are we seeing the police department honoring these men? In this context, I'm convinced this is an effort on the part of the police leadership to sanitize the conduct of their officers on December 16," he said. "The officers put themselves in harm's way. They were shot at and shot and deserved to be recognized," said Dolan in a statement defending the awards to the SWAT team. Dolan said an internal investigation conducted by his staff cleared the conduct of the SWAT officers who raided the Khang home. More than seven months later, the internal review has not finished looking into how the officers and supervisors in the Violent Offenders' Task Force handled the investigative piece of the case which preceded the raid at the Khang home. So far, no one has been disciplined in connection with the mistaken raid.
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#1. To: Indrid Cold (#0)
what kind of SWAT team unloads all that ammo on a guy and misses?
What a complete asshat. I love peace officers. I loathe police puppets. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Khang fired several shots at the "intruders" who turned out to be members of the Minneapolis Police Department's SWAT team. The officers returned fire. Their protective gear prevented them from being harmed by the bullets. Their protective gear repelled the shotgun blasts, big deal. That's all I have to say about that actually. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
"The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out," Dolan told the crowd. "This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled." More proof that Liberalism is a mental disorder, for starters. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Cops can't shoot for shit--anybody who's seen them on the range knows that.
Well, some among us might choose to learn a lesson here, to wit: Aim for the head, or use a rifle.
;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Well, some among us might choose to learn a lesson here, to wit: Aim for the head, or use a rifle. I wonder if he made the mistake of using birdshot. Even with a vest clost range 00 Buck or slugs should hurt...alot. As for a rifle, that would work. It would need to be something short but high powered though. I can't imagine many vests that could stand up to point blank shots from a Mosin M38/M44 or Lee-Enfield Jungle Carbine.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
That's like giving soldiers who committed a friendly fire accident a medal. No shock, though. Modern America promotes incompetence and punishes intelligence.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
Just about any rifle over .22 caliber will punch through a vest, due to the higher muzzle velocity.
The officers returned fire... The house was left riddled with bullet holes and broken glass.
#2. To: Indrid Cold (#0)
Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan
#3. To: Indrid Cold (#0)
Just days before Christmas, the sound of intruders breaking into their home in North Minneapolis prompted Vang Khang to grab his shotgun to protect his six children. His terrified wife called 911.
#4. To: Indrid Cold (#0)
On Monday, Dolan recognized members of the SWAT team for their bravery and how they handled the raid. With Mayor R.T. Rybak and other city officials looking on, the chief handed out medals and commendations.
#5. To: winston_smith (#1)
what kind of SWAT team unloads all that ammo on a guy and misses?
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#6. To: Rotara (#3)
Their protective gear repelled the shotgun blasts, big deal. That's all I have to say about that actually. ;-)
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#7. To: Indrid Cold (#6)
Aim for the head, or use a rifle.
#8. To: Indrid Cold (#6)
Their protective gear repelled the shotgun blasts, big deal. That's all I have to say about that actually. ;-)
#9. To: Indrid Cold (#0)
"The officers put themselves in harm's way. They were shot at and shot and deserved to be recognized," said Dolan in a statement defending the awards to the SWAT team.
#10. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#8)
As for a rifle, that would work. It would need to be something short but high powered though. I can't imagine many vests that could stand up to point blank shots from a Mosin M38/M44 or Lee-Enfield Jungle Carbine.
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