The
graphic to the left is from the web site of the Lima,
Ohio, SWAT team. In January 2008, the team stormed the home of
Tarika Wilson and Anthony Terry during an ordinary drug
investigation. A member of the SWAT team shot and killed Wilson -- an
unarmed 26-year old -- also blowing a finger off the
one-year old son she was holding. Another member of the SWAT
team killed two family dogs on a different floor. The police
department removed the graphic from the web site following the incident.
Wilson's killer was charged with two misdemeanors, acquitted, and
continues to work for the Lima police department, though not for the SWAT
team.
Created for emergency or very
high-intensity situations (snipers, hostages and the like), today SWAT
teams deploy more than 50,000 times per year, mostly in low-level drug
raids. This is dangerous and wrong, as the killing of Wilson, the
maiming of her child, and the image the SWAT team chose to represent
itself before things went bad all demonstrate. Please watch our online video,
"SWAT Raids -- No One Is Safe," please
forward it to your friends, and if possible please post it on your web
site. When you're done, please
sign the "Petition for Responsible SWAT
Reform" to limit SWAT raids to when they're truly needed.
Please
consider donating
to this effort, and thank you for helping to stop the "war on
drugs."
Sincerely,
David
Borden, Executive Director
StoptheDrugWar.org
Washington, DC
http://stopthedrugwar.org
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3 Comments in Response to SWAT Raids No One is safe!
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Actually I got this today. I do remember the story. Its good to rerun stuff that people may have forgotten so we keep the brush fires lit in peoples minds
So have you finally gotten around to reading your early 2008 emails?