A Scene From the War on Drugs – Mother Jones
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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. Radley Balko has posted video of the SWAT raid on a Missouri home that he
wrote about last February. This is the one where the Columbia Police Department busted in, fired seven shots at the family’s dogs, and ended up recovering a small amount of marijuana: >
It’s horrifying, but I’d urge you to watch it, and to send it to > the drug warriors in your life. This is the blunt-end result of all > the war imagery and militaristic rhetoric
politicians have been > spewing for the last 30 years — cops dressed like soldiers, > barreling through the front door middle of the night, slaughtering > the family pets, filling
the house with bullets in the presence of > children, then having the audacity to charge the parents with > endangering their own kid. There are 100-150 of these raids every > day
in America, the vast, vast majority like this one, to serve a > warrant for a consensual crime. > > But they did prevent Jonathan Whitworth from smoking the pot they > found in
his possession. So I guess this mission was a success. CPD Internal Affairs continues to investigate whether this was an appropriate response to the “tip” they received that started all
this.