SWAT Team Apologizes For Raiding Wrong Home

[matcom]

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A State Police SWAT team and a swarm of federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed a four-family home in Newark on Tuesday, kicking down doors, waving guns and ransacking two upstairs apartments.

The officers tore through an armoire looking for guns and shouted curses at frightened adults as they clutched their young children.

Then the officers apologized for being in the wrong house.

Home health aide Cedelie Pompee, 59, was livid yesterday as she recounted how police rushed through the Smith Street house that she has owned for 27 years, leaving cracked door frames, broken doors and scuffed walls in their wake. Pompee shares the home with her two sisters, their children and another family that rents a downstairs apartment.

The raid occurred around 2:30 p.m., when Pompee's 21-year-old daughter, Yedah Desir, was home with several relatives and the downstairs tenants. Without warning, officers in full SWAT gear broke down the front door and raced upstairs, kicking down the doors of both upstairs apartments and telling everyone to freeze where they stood, Desir said.

With guns drawn, they went room by room, breaking through locked doors as they went. When Desir and other family members complained, the officers cursed at them and demanded to know where the guns were kept.

But after 15 minutes of fruitless searching, the officers realized they had made a mistake.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1124948927223760.xml&coll=1

[davidinalameda]

1. oops

someone's gonna get a lot of money from the DEA and the NJ state police

[DS1]

2. The only thing worse than a bus tour at your favorite chinese buffet joint

is a swarm of overzealous pigs.

[Mutley]

3. Second time in four months...

Sounds like they need a tad more training in proper intelligence gathering. :eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Police Intelligence

(There is no need to say anything more.)

--p!

[Missy M]

5. Sounds like what we did in Iraq!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. Man, Jello Biafra gets more prescient every day...

(Talky parts in parenthesis)

Drug Raid at 4AM

(police!)

(Freeze! Stay right where you are! get out of that bed and get down on the floor! Get out right now! Get them down the stairs! Get them outside! I don't care if they're nude! Get down on the cement I don't care if it's freezing! Shut up man! Shup up man! Shut him up! Don't move stay right where you are! Where are the drugs?! We know you've got the drugs! Just tell us where they are and we won't tear your place up! We know you got em! We know you got em! We got people who say you did it man! We know you go em!)

Oh!
No!
Please!
Fuck!
Fuck!
No!
Please!
Fuck!
Fuck!
No!


Sheets off flashlight in your eyes freeze! guns in your gut
strip down body search cough up or stomach pump
to fight the war on drugs you must give up your rights
you blink, you die
I hate you more than my job

No!
Stop!
Stop!
Stop!
No!
Stop!
Stop!
Stop!
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.


Hey hey-hey hey hey-hey hey hey-hey! WOW!
Hey hey-hey hey hey-hey hey hey-hey! WOW!

(Who are you what's your name? Your name isn't on the lease! What's that NWA? Turn that shit off. Smash open the stereo! The drugs are inside the speakers, smash the speakers! Smash the TV! Start cutting open the furniture! They must have the drugs stuck down in the furniture!)

random neighborhood sweeps
copters break up house parties
zero tolerance for pot
easier to get hard stuff
costs over 3 times more
to keep an addict in jail
than to treat those trying to quit
but no drug war funds for clinics

No!
Stop!
Please!
No!
Stop!
Stop!
Stop!

Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Drug raid at 4 a.m.

(What's this wad of bills doing here? Why are you keeping so much cash around? Huh?! Huh!? Yeah, well your kids do drugs, same difference! We gotta get this all outa here, get it all outa here! Can't let word of this hit the street man. You say one word of this and we're gonna get you later man! You know that?! You know that!? You know that?! Oops sorry... Wrong house.)