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At 6:16 am on Tuesday June 10, 2014 a team of over a dozen heavily armed men in full swat gear smashed my front door, threw flash bang grenades at my cat (a normally friendly cat who greets everyone is now fearful and hard of hearing), demanded that I drop the towel I was covering my naked body with before snatching it off of me physically and throwing me to the ground. According to my boyfriend, the agent with his assault rifle to my back kept eying me up & down like I was eye candy. I requested to see ID and the agent pointed at his uniform that read POLICE and said "Isn't this ID enough for you?" When I told him I could buy that up in Miami he called me retarded and said I was fucking stupid. They spent bout 2 hours trashing my house, even smashing clear glass shower doors and a vintage statue. "
*After about 2 hours of pure hell, a female agent asked if there were any laptops in the house. They left us thinking that they were here for child pornography but the more I think about it, I don't think they would have come in full force, shields, helicopter, etc for kiddie porn.
I'm still scratching my head but have made complains to the ACLU, DHS OIG and the White House but I don't want to just sit there waiting so decided to spread the word and increase awareness."
Michigander_Life
(549 posts)What did your copy of the warrant say?
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Michigander_Life
(549 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)SamKnause
(13,111 posts)a politician say that we need more police it makes me want to puke.
SamKnause
(13,111 posts)you were terrorized by these jackbooted thugs !!!!
I am glad that you and your family were not assassinated in your own home.
I hope your kitty recovers.
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)This kind of stuff will continue to happen unless they are held accountable with real consequences. Not a paid vacation but losing your badge and going to jail - each person who was on the swat raid up to the person who authorized it.
I know it isn't going to happen but one can dream.