Disputed: that USDOE (SWAT) breaks down family's door for defaulted student loan?

[AGRP]

ABC has pulled the video, the story is still out.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/141108/2/Questions-surround-feds-raid-of-Stockton-home
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Feds-Send-Swat-Team-To-Bre-by-Rob-Kall-110608-10.html?show=votes

Whats was going on?

Were they seriously trying to retract this story? Just ABC?

Liveleak seems like a good place to put videos that wont get removed.

 

[aGameOfThrones]

But Education Department Press Secretary Justin Hamilton said in a statement to The Lookout that the department "does not execute search warrants for late loan payments." He said the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) "conducts about 30-35 search warrants a year on issues such as bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds." Hamilton said the department cannot comment on this particular case until the investigation is over, but did add that the claim the warrant was executed for late loan payment is untrue. The raid was related to a criminal investigation of Wright's wife.

The OIG lists some of its recent investigations on its website, including the case of a Boston man who was sent to prison last month for lying on a federal student aid form.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...-doesnt-send-swat-teams-after-loan-defaulters

So what I (/B) deserves a fucking twat team?

 

[cindy25]

Youtube has saved it

someone posted it on youtube, but if TPTB ask youtube to take it down they say yes sir, and down it goes. its still there but I would suggest anyone who wants to keep this to download the youtube now. remember how they removed/banned Freedom Watch.

 

[pcosmar]

Disputed???
What part?

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Disputed???
What part?

This part I assume...

Hamilton said the department cannot comment on this particular case until the investigation is over, but did add that the claim the warrant was executed for late loan payment is untrue. The raid was related to a criminal investigation of Wright's wife.

 

[pcosmar]

Hamilton said the department cannot comment on this particular case until the investigation is over, but did add that the claim the warrant was executed for late loan payment is untrue. The raid was related to a criminal investigation of Wright's wife.

Too bad they didn't investigate where she lived. or didn't live, as the case would be.

So the SWAT assault happened and only the "WHY?" is disputed.

 

[tropicangela]

The news people were able to see the warrant. Wonder what it said.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

here... latest update from Reason

Question, How much did this terror operation cost the taxpayers?


http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/09/these-are-the-charges-that-req

These Are the Charges That Require the Department of Education to Send a Dozen Armed Agents to Kick Through Your Front Door

Matt Welch | June 9, 2011
So what exactly were the suspected crimes that required the Department of Education to send a dozen or so armed men to execute a search warrant at 6 a.m. on the house of a man who was handcuffed for several hours in front of his three bawling pre-teen kids even though the target of the raid was allegedly his estranged wife who no longer lived there? Now we have a partial search warrant to tell us: Financial Aid Fraud, Conspiracy, Theft of Government Funds, False Statement to Government Agency, Wire Fraud. While some of those charges are classic prosecutorial multipliers, it seems likely given this list of DoE Inspector General activities that the underlying charge will be more elaborate than mere trying to weasel out of loan payments.
Then again, take a good long look at that list of DoE prosecutions, and ask yourself, "Which of these crimes would require a dozen armed men barging down the door of a house where three young kids live?"

Here's how one of Kenneth Wright's neighbors described the scene in Stockton, CA:

"They surrounded the house; it was like a task force or S.W.A.T team," across the street neighbor Becky said. "They all had guns. They dragged him out in his boxer shorts, threw him to the ground and handcuffed him." [...]
Her young daughter, Valerie, said she counted 13 agents and one Stockton police officer outside Wright's home.
"I felt really bad for those kids," said Becky about agents when they brought out Wright's three children. "They were crying really loud."
​

The trauma and property damage are plenty bad enough, but of course the real problem with militarized raids to execute search warrants for nonviolent crimes is that they're dangerous, to everyone involved.
And for those asking "What the heck is the Department of Education doing executing search warrants," the better question is: How many of the 30 or so presidentially appointed inspectors general in the federal government actively take advantage of the full police power they were granted by the Homeland Security Act of 2002? By law, the Deptartment of Labor, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Tennessee Valley Authority and two dozen other federal agencies with OIGs can send a dozen armed agents to kick down your door. We are truly living in Radley Balko's world:

 

[Bossobass]

So...

When the hell is SWAT gonna break down the doors to Goldman Sachs' offices?

Bosso

 

[fisharmor]

but of course the real problem with militarized raids to execute search warrants for nonviolent crimes is that they're dangerous, to everyone involved.

And that's the part nobody ever really processes.
At some point these kids are going to grow up into young adults, and it's not going to take extensive psychiatric work for them to figure out why they can't sleep at night and consistently wake up crying and sweating.
Some of those kids aren't going to be total dumbasses, either.
Some might realize that this whole criminal justice system is based on revenge.
Some might take the lesson that revenge is an appropriate form of justice.
A couple might even read about some shit that went down in the DC area back in 2002, and they're going to realize exactly how safe it is for them to exact revenge.

These mouth-breathing SWAT monkeys are painting targets all over themselves and their successors.
These kids aren't going to grow up to be well-adjusted members of society.
They've been broken.
And it's pretty fuckin' obvious who broke them.

I find it all amusing in a sick sort of way. They fail to see what's happening in the Middle East so completely that they are now importing the problem.

 

[oyarde]

Wouldn't you feel pretty pissed off about some person borrowing thousands of dollars from you and then never paying it back?

(Not defending the SWAT raid.)

Well , how can the Federal govt pretend to be angry for people trying to steal back what was stolen from the people ? Spending outside of article one , section eight is theft from the people....