Flash-bangs, Videos, and Violence

[RSDavis]

Flash-bangs, Videos, and Violence
by RS Davis
The Freedom Files

...Flash-bangs are not harmless tools to "distract" violent criminals, as the officers' quotes in the early reports stated. Flash-bangs are violent weapons, creating a 136 decibel shockwave that blinds, deafens, and confuses its victims, and the ensuing confusion and chaos often leads to the deaths of civilians and cops alike. In fact, in one such story, the flash bang set off a Tarantinoesque melee between the cops and the cops, in which the suspect was shot in the neck.

If you doubt my description of the weapon, don't take my word for it. In 1998, one accidentally went off in the SUV of three FBI agents. One described the sensation as feeling like "someone just whacked me in the back with a baseball bat as hard as they could." Another described the long-term effects: "I don't sleep. I have tremendous headaches. I have the doctors claim severe hearing loss, but for all practical purposes, I'm deaf in my left ear."

And SWAT officers in Detroit had no problem throwing one of these into an apartment they knew contained innocent people in no immediate danger from anyone, some probably children. This is an assault all on its own, and certainly government-approved police brutality.

In the ensuing storm of confusion, it is no wonder that an innocent life was lost. It's no wonder that a frightened and disoriented grandmother either bumped into or fought against the invaders.

But did she?
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[nateerb]

From my Facebook...

Nate Erb By the way, they had the wrong house again. I want each and every one of you to look at this little girl, then I want you to look at your kids. Think.

Sunday at 7:16pm · Nate Erb Not a peep from you Facebook drones. Hmmm. GO BREWERS! There, did that get a rise out of you?

Sunday at 8:18pm · Elizabeth K I'm just glad I don't live in a big city - I'll take my podunk life any day.

Sunday at 8:54pm · Nate Erb I take back anything I ever said about podunk. You don't suck, Liz.

Sunday at 10:03pm · Lloyd G It's bad. Real bad. I know we talked about this before but Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, etc. They've all been lied to for so long. The union will take care of you. The police will take care of you. The government will take care of you. Maybe this little girl will give a face to this tragedy.

Monday - Jason W Alright Nate, I'll peep. 1st- It is way too early to pass judgement on what happened in Detroit. There is just not enough info yet and the press does nothing but sensationalize it. The only certainty now is that her death is tragic. 2nd- Police are only a microcosm of society. Some are good, some are bad. Should he eventually be charged with ... See Morea crime, I guarantee that his punishment will be more severe than John Q Public convicted of the same crime. 3rd- It is inaccurate to say that the police only protect the government. Many of us got into this line of work to make a difference in people's lives (cliche yes, but true). How exactly does my counseling a family with a troubled teenager, and counseling that teenager on the inappropriate rape pornography websites he visits and chloroform research he has conducted, protect the government? I'm trying to prevent him from committing a crime, the result of which would devastate his victim and his family. 4th- Facebook is a terrible place to debate politics!

Nate Erb Bullshit, there are plenty of facts coming out about this and any death of a 7 year old is tragic - let alone at the hand of the State. My opinion on police is this (and no, I do not have any kind of record or history of contact with the police) - there are plenty of "bad" ones, and the "good" ones do little to defray the "bad" ones - therefore the "good" ones are also "bad". The brotherhood runs deep my friend. I knew you guys before you were cops and believe you are sincere about your intentions, but your brotherhood naturally makes you blind to evil. Your counseling example demonstrates the police public-good purpose that they were created for and which I agree with, but ignores the fact that police are used to enforce tax collections, generate revenue through "tickets" which are inherently non-contestable, and most importantly the fact that you are the only group legally allowed to use physical force upon civilians. That is a most serious public trust - you can shoot to kill, we cannot shoot at all. I am outraged about this tragedy because of the increasing militaristic nature of the civilian police force in the use of SWAT, flash bombs, and terroristic tactics on the populace - resulting in accidental tragedy such as this. Jason, I see similar albeit less tragic stories like this EVERY WEEK. The Internet knows all - and it makes law-abiding people like myself distrustful of you. If you MP's need to throw a flash bomb into a barracks to dust out some base's drug problem - go ahead - soldiers signed a contract with the government and as part of that are policed by the military. We didn't sign.

Police get paid admin leave in this case. Police know everyone down at the courthouse. Police have friends and family working in corrections. Don't for a second try to tell us that Police get a more harsh punishment than John Q Public. I actually choked on some food when I read that part. Come on... (shakes head).

Finally, I agree, FB is about friends and family and showing Grandma all the shit she's missing about the kids, and I have frowned on political postings on herein the past. But dammit, this shit is going to stop, hopefully by our system of manmade laws. If it's solved by natural law, the guys in uniform are going to be finished off pretty fast. It shouldn’t have to come to that, and that’s why I am outranged and expressing this on Internet forums.

I'll let it go now. Everyone can talk about Lost and whatever other crack they smoke to drown out the misery of modern-day servitude.
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