Lima on edge after police kill woman, wound 1-year-old child in drug raid
Ignazio Messina and Erica Blake at The Toledo Blade - another SWAT raid gone bad. A young woman and one of her dogs are dead, and her son and another dog are injured, in an attempt to stop people from smoking a weed. I sent the following letter to the Chief of the Lima, Ohio Police, whose SWAT team page shows a jack-booted thug in full regalia shooting right at you:
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:51:40 -0500
From: "Bill St. Clair" <billstclair@gmail.com>
To: lpd@limapolice.com
Subject: A grand jury damn well better consider a murder indictmentChief Garlock,
I read with disdain of the homicide of Tarika Wilson by an unidentified member of your SWAT team. Had it been one of us peons who pulled the trigger, you can bet we would have been pimp-walked to the station, name blazoned across the front page. What gives? Are your officers better than the rest of us?
I expect to see you working hard to convince your District Attorney to convene a Grand Jury to consider a charge of murder against the perp with a badge. If the Grand Jury indicts, and if he is found guilty by a jury of his peers, I expect you to volunteer a firing squad made up of the other members of the SWAT team that raided Mrs. Wilson's house. Give him a dose of the disgusting image to which you treat us when we go to your web page, a rifle pointed right at his face. But with real bullets.
If the perps involved when cops kill innocents faced the same justice as the rest of us, cops would not have such a bad name. As it is, America is rapidly approaching the time when we'll have to hunt you down, like dogs.
Liberty!
Bill St. Clair
billstclair@gmail.com
http://billstclair.com/
Graphic Saved
I'm glad that our feedback has shamed them into removing the disgusting graphic. I saved it for your continued viewing pleasure.
Graphic Removed
They've removed the animated GIF of the SWAT guy shooting at the viewer, but Google has a cached copy here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Awww2.wcoil.com%2F~lpd%2Fswat%2Fswat.htm
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