A dozen or so fully armed and heavily armored police officers engage in a special operation to arrest someone outside their jurisdiction, and they go there in the middle of the night when the suspect is sleeping, start banging on the door, and soon shots are fired and the suspect is killed.
The problem? They went to the wrong house and killed a completely innocent man who had done nothing wrong. The house number, which they had been told by dispatch several times, was 489.
So they got confused. Perhaps the house where they incorrectly went to had a very similar-looking number, like 488, or 498? Easy mistake to make?
Nope, the house that they wrongly went to was number 511, which looks nothing like 489. And yes, the house number was clearly visible from the front.
So, why did they go there in the first place (particularly because the house was outside their jurisdiction)? Was the (original) suspect some kind of wanted criminal who had committed armed robbery or murder? Was he a known drug dealer? Carjacker? People smuggler or sex trafficker?
Nope. It was just some random nobody with no prior criminal record who had allegedly stolen a weed eater.
That's it. That was the entire crime that they were there to arrest him for. Stealing a gardening tool from someone. And for this heinous crime they sent a dozen heavily armored fully armed cops in the middle of the night to his home. And they were so incompetent that they went to the wrong house and killed a completely innocent bystander who had done nothing wrong.
And do you know what's even funnier? The actual suspect, the guy had actually stolen the gardening tool, was already in custody. He wasn't even there (in the actual house 489) to begin with because he was in jail.
They allegedly had a warrant for his arrest, but in two years that have passed they have still not presented it, which is quite curious.
Needless to say, what those cops did was criminally reckless, particularly considering the severity of the "crime" in question. In any normal sane society this would have elicited a couple of cops going to the guy's home during the day in order to investigate and make the arrest, not a full-on SWAT strike in the middle of the night.
And what happened to all these cops who murdered an innocent man because of their own mistake and recklessness? Nothing, obviously. In fact, the district prosecutor, who is infamous for this kind of corruption, somehow managed a grand jury not to indict any of the police officers involved.
Must protect the brotherhood at all costs.
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