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SWAT Wrong-Door Raids: Are You Next?
By Ed Albaster
AC Associatedcontent

If you think working, paying taxes, and obeying the law will keep police out of your house, well, you must not be living in America.

It's happening all across the country: police plan raids on the homes of criminals, from murderers to poker players, and they get the wrong house. At best, the victims are terrorized by paramilitary SWAT, or Special Weapons and Tactics, teams.

Using squad tactics, military weaponry, and raw fear, SWAT teams exist in every large city and in many smaller ones, such as Paradise, California, with a population of 26,000. There was a time these teams were deployed only to arrest high-risk targets, like suspected murderers and barricaded suspects. Nowadays it seems like SWAT teams are called out for almost anything: drug use, gambling, even pornography charges will bring armed and armored police to the scene.

SWAT officers invade home, take 11-year-old at gunpoint
Cops demand boy go to doctor because of fall during horseplay
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.

The boy's parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves.

Lima on edge after police kill woman, wound 1-year-old child in drug raid
By IGNAZIO MESSINA and ERICA BLAKE
BLADE STAFF WRITERS

LIMA, Ohio — Darla Jennings walked through the streets of south Lima last night sobbing as hundreds of people behind her called for justice after the shooting of her daughter, who was killed by police as she held her baby.

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.

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