SWAT Team Shoots Baby, Kills Mom in Drug Raid Gone Wrong
It has become a nauseating chore just to report on all the innocent people that get killed in the drug war. But until our public servants stop killing us to protect us from drugs, the reporting must continue:
Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot and her 1-year-old son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night, prompting members of the black community to organize a candlelight vigil and demand answers from police."They shot my daughter and her baby," Ms. Jennings said through tears while being consoled by other family members. "The police have to pay for what they did. They went in that home shooting and killed her." [Toledo Blade]
Tarika Wilson's boyfriend was arrested for marijuana and crack, but police haven’t reported how much they found. Something tells me this is because the amount is very small. Too small to justify shooting a baby. Similarly, they haven’t said a word about why Ms. Wilson was shot. If they had a good answer, we'd know by now what it is.
Here's the thing: when you hear about police shooting a baby and killing an innocent mother of six, you just know the drug war had something to do with it. Overwhelmingly, it is the drug war that sends adrenalin-charged cops into private homes with their fingers on the trigger of a machine gun. In a post-drug war world, babies and grandmas won't get shot in their houses by police. I can't wait.
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reddit"executed" is right
Comment posted by rita on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 1:42amPolice Chief Garlock: "This is a terrible situation that resulted from a very dangerous situation that occurs when a high-risk search warrant is executed."
For one thing, ALL search warrants are "high-risk" -- for the people without the guns. But have you ever noticed how rarely police spokesmen manage to string words together to make sense? Is this deliberate, or don't police departments employ people with triple-digit IQ's?
It's definitely the SWAT
Comment posted by borden on Wed, 12/30/2009 - 8:46amIt's definitely the SWAT team's fault -- or if not of the team then of the people who trained and deployed them. Using a SWAT team for an ordinary drug raid is massive overkill, and there's no way they should have done it in this case.
At the end of the day, a mother holding her child was standing in her home, completely minding her own business, when a SWAT team member gunned her down, killing her and maiming and almost kinng her infant child. What does accountability mean if it is not about this? Yes it's the SWAT team's fault. BE REAL...
David Borden, Executive Director
StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network
Washington, DC
http://stopthedrugwar.org
"Too small to justify shooting a baby"?
Comment posted by rita on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 12:22amI wonder, how big would the amount have to be to justify shooting at all? Especially considering that the cops have NO WAY OF KNOWING what's in the house UNTIL the shooting is over. They are, however, well aware of WHO'S in the house. This isn't law enforcement, it's premeditated murder.