SWAT flash-bangs toddler in play pen - the "Baby Bou Bou" saga

"The person I blame in this whole thing is the person selling the drugs," (Habersham County Sheriff Joey ) Terrell said. "Wanis Thonetheva, that's the person I blame in all this. They are no better than a domestic terrorist, because they don't care about families - they didn't care about the family, the children living in that household - to be selling dope out of it, to be selling methamphetamine out of it. All they care about is making money.

"They don't care about what it does to families," Terrell said. "It's domestic terrorism and I think we should treat them as such. I don't know where we can go with that, but that's my feelings on it. It just makes me so angry! I get so mad that they don't care about what they do, they don't care about the families or the people they're selling to."

The child, born in October 2012, suffered burns to his right side. The pillow the child was lying on was burned, and the device created a hole in the plastic side of the Pack N Play.

Good Lord. Well, when destroying lives pays on both ends...

Does. not. compute.
 
great way to shift blame you negligent fucks.

and awesome to be so loftily throwing around the word "domestic terrorist" when in fact the only terrorist described in this scene is "law enforcement" officers who flashbanged a fucking child. all you in law enforcement who partake in such activity and condone it through silence deserve to rot in a small cage for the rest of your lives.

+1, almost took the words right outta my mouth.
 
More info:

SWAT team throws concussion grenade into baby playpen during no-knock raid | Police State USA

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I have become pretty jaded...and I know many people here have become so as well.

But I teared up when I saw that...

Fuck me, how much more?

*sigh*

I guess the answer is, when I am prepared to do for an unknown stranger's child, the same thing I would do if it was mine.

I know your discussed. But look at what they are currently doing in North Korea as we stand by. The history of Stalin is happening right now in our times. People back then were starved because state policies. We are becoming that too as we sit here.


Guys like Zippyjuan tell us all is OK. WTF. It is not OK. Look at who we lock up. We are number 1 in detention, I know I'm preaching to the choir.
 
“The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first and it landed right in the playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face.”

The sleeping baby received the blast of to concussion grenade directly in the chest and face. He received serious, disfiguring burns and is now in a coma. The blast scorched a 2-foot hole in the playpen.

“The door that we entered was the door that we bought dope out of – that’s why entered at that door,” Terrell said. “Our team went by the book. Given the same scenario, we’ll do the same thing again. I stand behind what our team did.”

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So what was the drug haul from these dangerous terrorists..?

I see no mention of any drugs being found.

Only that an anonymous snitch said he bought drugs there.

I have heard that before.

Reported for using facts and logic.
 
This should be front page.

The ramifications of this incident are many and ought be promoted. Many times folks get weak hearted, they know these things happen far more routinely and devastatingly overseas but here it is in "the homeland."

I would very much like those who attempt to justify my robbery to justify this baby's blindness (this hasn't been reported, but I'd guarantee it) and coma.

There are many.

And the same to those who attempt to justify the drug war after given the pages of logic they are afforded.

Is it worth it? And that goes to both groups. This baby was lucky (I guess....) not to have an arm blown off or to have died instantaneously. But it's right, right? Mistakes happen. Where are your good cops to denounce a blinded, comatose baby? They're writing tickets, that's where. They're beating people. They're killing people.

What will it possibly take for you to wake the fuck up? The trains were more subtle.

I speak til I'm tired and provide documented case after case and what remains? Your indoctrinated obligatory senses! Your posting of propaganda, distortions, and lies.

Empire here or overseas it appears you superficially care but you are the sort of evil that justifies this very incidence.
 
This should be front page.

The ramifications of this incident are many and ought be promoted. Many times folks get weak hearted, they know these things happen far more routinely and devastatingly overseas but here it is in "the homeland."

I would very much like those who attempt to justify my robbery to justify this baby's blindness (this hasn't been reported, but I'd guarantee it) and coma.

There are many.

And the same to those who attempt to justify the drug war after given the pages of logic they are afforded.

Is it worth it? And that goes to both groups. This baby was lucky (I guess....) not to have an arm blown off or to have died instantaneously. But it's right, right? Mistakes happen. Where are your good cops to denounce a blinded, comatose baby? They're writing tickets, that's where. They're beating people. They're killing people.

What will it possibly take for you to wake the fuck up? The trains were more subtle.

I speak til I'm tired and provide documented case after case and what remains? Your indoctrinated obligatory senses! Your posting of propaganda, distortions, and lies.

Empire here or overseas it appears you superficially care but you are the sort of evil that justifies this very incidence.

Cops threw a grenade in a baby's playpen, blew up part of his face and put him in a coma.

And they said they would do it again.

If that doesn't move you to action about police brutality.....Then this country is so beyond fucked. So FUBAR it's not even funny.
 
The mighty Will Grigg weighs in:

A Country Where Police Burn Infants in Their Cribs
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/a-country-where-police-burn-infants-in-their-cribs/
William Norman Grigg (30 May 2014)

“I stand behind what our team did,” insists Habersham County, George Sheriff Joey Terrell, referring to a 3:00 a.m. no-knock SWAT raid in which a 19-month-old child was severely burned by a flash-bang grenade. “There’s nothing to investigate, there’s nothing to look at,” continued the sheriff, relaying the conclusions of the County DA’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “Bad things can happen. That’s just the world we live in.”

If anyone is to blame, Terrell maintains, it was the alleged drug dealers who had supposedly sold drugs to a “cooperating informant.” His pious outrage overcoming his syntax, the sheriff characterized the suspects as people “who want to do the domestic terrorism and sell dope and make the money.” While emitting all of the expected sympathetic noises regarding the child – whose face and chest were ripped apart by the grenade that was tossed into his crib – the sheriff clearly regards the Stormtroopers who raided the house as the primary victims.

The officer who threw the grenade “is basically upside down,” relates the sheriff. “He’s gone and talked to his pastor, trying to get some counseling and some debriefing just to help him get through what has happened.” If the pastor is a man of God, rather than an agent of Leviathan, he will call that officer to repentance.

Special Response Team leader Matt Wurtz was also devastated by the incident, Terrell observed, but in a “trembling” voice expressed his determination to continue kicking in doors at 3:00 a.m. “because children are getting involved in situations they don’t need to be.”

That’s right: The on-site commander who nearly burned a child to death in a raid the likes of which the Gestapo might have regarded excessive did it For The Children.

Sheriff Terrell likewise remains committed to pursuing the path of righteousness:

“We’re called for a purpose. The members of this team want to be here… We’re getting more and more information about children, 14-15 years of age, getting into methamphetamine. Who is going to stand up for them? Who is going to do the right thing? We are! We are! And we are not going to stop what we do.”

One wonders if the “information” to which Sheriff Terrell refers is as reliable as that provided by the “confidential informant” who told police that there were no children at the home prior to the SWAT raid.

Alecia Phonesavanh, the mother of the infant who was severely burned and nearly murdered by Terrell’s ministering angels of divine justice, was visiting her sister-in-law when the raid took place.

“Everyone’s sleeping,” Phonesavanh told WSB news. “There’s a loud bang and a bright light. The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first, and it landed right in the playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face.”

While emphasizing the emotional wounds suffered by his gallant minions, Terrell pointedly sought to minimize the injury inflicted on the infant, who was placed in an induced coma: “I don’t think [the burns] cover a significant amount of the face or the chest,” the sheriff insisted. The journalists who saw photos of the baby offered a very different assessment: WSB “decided not to share most of the photos because of the graphic nature of the child’s injuries.”

Like many, if not most, of the people who follow his morally irredeemable profession, Sheriff Terrell has mastered the art of inverted self-pity, as taught to German Stormtroopers by Heinrich Himmler.

“What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique (“a great task that occurs once in two thousand years”), which must therefore be difficult to bear,” observed Hannah Arendt in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. “Hence the problem was how to overcome not so much their conscience as the animal pity by which all normal men are affected in the presence of physical suffering. The trick used by Himmler — who apparently was rather strongly afflicted by these instinctive reactions himself — was very simple and probably very effective; it consisted in turning these instincts around, as it were, in directing them toward the self. So that instead of saying: What horrible things I did to people!, the murderers would be able to say: What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders!”

An isolated incident is an anomaly; two of its kind may be construed as a coincidence; when three or more occur, we’re confronted with a pattern. This is at least the third episode in which a SWAT team has burned a child during a night-time raid.

The most tragic episode of the kind was the murder, by SWAT team, of 7-year-old Detroit resident Aiyana Jones. Aiyana was burned by a flash-bang grenade and then shot in the head by SWAT operative – and “reality” TV star – Joseph Weekley on May 17, 2010. The midnight raid, which was carried out to arrest a homicide suspect who could easily have been arrested by conventional means the following morning, was staged for the benefit of a camera crew from the A&E cable network. The telegenic assault was carried out despite warnings from neighbors that children were present in the home — something that should have been obvious on account of the toys scattered in the front yard.

A pre-dawn raid in Billings, Montana on October 9, 2012 resulted in severe burns to a 12-year-old child after one of the raiders hurled a flash-bang grenade through the windows of her upstairs bedroom. Her father, who went to answer the door, dodged another that “blew the nails out of the drywall” and left a “large bowl-shaped dent in the wall,” reported the Missoulian newspaper.

This assault was staged by a SWAT team attached to the City-County Special Investigations Unit (CCIU) in Billings, Montana. Like Sheriff Terrell. Billings Police Chief Rich St. John insists that the assault on the home was carried out because of “hard evidence” that a meth lab existed on the premises. Praise be to all that is holy, that “evidence” was just as defective as the “intelligence” offered to Sheriff Terrell by his cooperating informant in Georgia – but one wonders why anyone possessed of a particle of tactical intelligence would hurl incendiary devices into a building that supposedly contains a lab filled with volatile chemicals.

Just like the officials responsible for the burning of the child in Habersham County and the murder of Aiyana Jones, Chief St. John claims that the CCIU had “hard evidence” insisted that his investigators simply didn’t know there were two children living on the targeted premises – not that this fact would necessarily have dictated restraint on the part of the home invasion squad.

“We generally do not introduce these disorienting devices when [children] are present,” St. John said regarding the flash-bang grenades used in the raid. This would mean, of course, that there are situations in which his agency uses incendiary rounds in the presence of children.

No arrests were made, and no charges were filed. Jackie Fasching, mother of the injured child, correctly points out that criminal charges should have been filed against the state-employed Berserkers who attacked her sleeping daughter. But accountability for criminal acts committed in the name of the State simply doesn’t exist in the American Soyuz, a country in which police kick in doors at 3:00 a.m. and burn infants in their cribs.

Copyright © 2014 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are provided.
 
I think a good project online would be for a website to get all these news stories about cop abuse...and then provide the home addresses of them.
 
I was just going to moan that Drudge hasn't covered this. But I see in the last few minutes a link has gone up. Not to PSUSA or Grigg sadly...

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/toddler-critically-injured-during-police-raid/

Quote from that article: "The child is now being treated at Grady hospital and has a 50 percent chance of survival."

There's a strong chance they've murdered this baby. If he survives, he'll be disfigured for life.

God will judge these officers. I hope they know that.
 
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