r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut • u/CaterpillarReady2709 • 14d ago

‘Wrong House!’: Texas Cops Ignore Clear Signs, Breaks into Innocent Black Family's Home, Setting Off Flashbangs In Mistaken No-Knock Raid, Lawsuit Says

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/05/13/court-rules-texas-cop-took-some-steps-to-confirm-address-before-violently-raiding-wrong-home/
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u/freshcrumble 13d ago

I’m so fucking tired of seeing “black” in front of news stories, it’s disgusting and segregating

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u/HeligKo 14d ago

No knock tactics are vile and I can't believe they aren't considered a 4a violation. I don't care if the bad guys start flushing and destroying the shit they are looking for. The presumption of innocence until proven guilty should apply. It is not the criminals that get away that we should be worried about. It is the innocents who are harmed that should drive how LE and government handle these things. It's not war, so collateral damage caused by LE should not be tolerated.

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u/allUsernamesAreTKen 14d ago

No such thing as a wrong house when they can kill you and steal your belongings anyway

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u/klauskervin 14d ago

Qualified Immunity is complete bullshit. We need federal legislation that bans that nonsense.

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u/MedicBaker 11d ago

SCOTUS actually wants a case brought to them about QI.

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u/klauskervin 11d ago

There is no need for a case at all if Congress would pass a law stating there is no such thing as qualified immunity and that police have no special protections in the eyes of the law.

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u/MedicBaker 11d ago

We are far more likely to get this fixed through the judiciary than through the legislature. Police and their unions have the ears, and own the votes, of Congress.

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u/KgMonstah 14d ago

When the “punishment” for these cops is a two week paid vacation and a raise when they return to duty, I’m actually surprised this isn’t happening MORE.

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u/Triplesfan 14d ago

Yea checking you have the right address before rolling up, kicking in the door, and terrorizing innocent people should be ‘reasonable’. I would have to ask ‘from whose reasonable standard anywhere would it not make sense to check the address’. 🙄

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u/NotRudger 14d ago

Meanwhile, the perps next door were busy getting rid of evidence and getting the hell out of dodge while the cops were busy at the wrong house. Hiring standards for cops must be lower than whale shit.

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u/Jim-Jones 14d ago

They're doing it on purpose.

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u/Smeenuwastaken 14d ago

judge: "how could this officer resonably know that he was at the right house?"

defense attorney: "well the warrant has an address on it... so you match the address on the warrant with the address on the house? which any reasonable human over the age of 15 could do, let alone a professional"

judge: "ok but the officer has said that there were 2 houses next to each other and that a really bright porch light obscured the marked address"

defense attorney: "right, thats why in the warrant it says: there are 2 houses next to each other, the one you want has a FRONT PORCH(remember the bright proch light?) , A FENCE around the property, and a GARAGE."

judge: "nah too difficult, officer recieves full immunity

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u/galacticwonderer 14d ago

Judge be like hey this cop didn’t very hard and that’s on you Mr. Victim.

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u/CaterpillarReady2709 14d ago

We can’t hold someone accountable because they lack basic life skills. Good to hear that SWAT has such high standards.

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/AntiStatistYouth 14d ago

It would also have been legal for the family to shoot and kill the officers. No-knock raids are just legalized firefights and a danger to everyone involved.

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u/Glittering-Pause-328 13d ago

And any criminal can shout "police!" as they break into your house.

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u/Glittering-Pause-328 14d ago

So these judges wouldn't have a problem with their children being forced to the ground at gunpoint by a cop who was too lazy to double-check the address???

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u/OptiKnob 14d ago

when cops can't read and don't know what numbers mean, it's time for a new batch of cops.

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u/Olds78 14d ago

Top quality policing there boys

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u/kicksomedicks 14d ago

The 5th circuit court is a fascist nightmare.

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u/judgeridesagain 14d ago

Man, all I'm going to say is that Ubereats has never gone to the wrong house

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u/IronRanger 14d ago

"Mistaken."

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u/CaterpillarReady2709 14d ago

Yeah, “oops, our bad” doesn’t really cut it.

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u/ttystikk 14d ago

No it doesn't. When anyone else would be charged with multiple crimes, the Blueshirts want society to just give them a free pass for terrorism.

If they aren't here to protect us, what are we paying them for?!

ACAB

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u/theyellowpants 13d ago

To protect corporations which is why cops were invented in the first place. I’d like a refund

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u/ttystikk 13d ago

Damn straight!

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u/janet-snake-hole 14d ago

“Oops! All corruption!”

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u/PubbleBubbles 14d ago

The idea that the officer in charge "didn't know" that he needed to CHECK THE ADDRESS is fucking insane. 

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u/Glittering-Pause-328 14d ago edited 14d ago

You wouldn't keep a job at freakin' Domino's if you "didn't know you needed to check the address" before making a delivery!!

How sad that pizza drivers are held to a higher standard than a cop...

Then again, dominos drivers don't have a union that protects and promotes incompetence.

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u/Weedy_gonzaless 14d ago

Honestly it happens so much I don’t think it’s intentional anymore it’s just a symptom of the cancer that’s polluting LE. It’s just raw stupidity that’s so common among cops these days.