Brickbat: The Postman Always Rings Twice

Officials in Louisville, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $460,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a family that had the door to their home knocked down by police who then held them at gunpoint. In an affidavit for a search warrant, Det. Joseph Tapp claimed a black man named Anthony McClain "is growing marijuana and has multiple bags of marijuana packaged for sale in the front bedroom" and that "a white female named Holly was his girlfriend and owned the house" where the raid took place. Ashlea Burr and Mario Daugherty, who are both black, and their teenage children rent the house. They said nobody named Anthony McClain or Holly lived in the home. The search uncovered no drugs, and Burr and Daugherty were not charged with any crime.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't see how it's the job of law enforcement to verify every basic, publicly available fact about someone's domestic life prior to threaten them with planned deadly violence.

[SQRLSY One]

Also, Ashlea Burr and Mario Daugherty need to thank Government Almighty that they were shown mercy, and NOT charged with "renting a house while being black"!!!

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[kcuch]

And all just for gardening.

[Longtobefree]

Time for zoning laws to require moats with alligators for all buildings.
No EPA violations for pouring boiling oil from rooftops.

[n00bdragon]

I'm quite certain the Louisville, Kentucky PD will really have to pinch the pennies for quite some time after that $460k is taken out of their budget.

Right?

[Jerry B.]

Why isn't that cop on the left taking a knee like the rest of them? Is he a racist?

[Longtobefree]

He just doesn't realize a low shotgun blast through the wall will kneecap him.

[mad.casual]

Those aren't cops. They're Ukranian freedom fighters (seriously though, my guess is Polizia De Stato).

[mad.casual]

So much for the longstanding tradition of "Brickbat stock photos are unrelated to the articles." Those cops are clearly at the wrong house.

[Longtobefree]

So I just spent 15 minutes wandering around dreamstime.com
That photo did not show up among the results of a search for Cristi Bucurie.
Nor did it show up searching for police door breach and several variants.
?

[mad.casual]

Either way, it's not an American police force and they're pretty clearly at a kill house (unless procedure makes them count to 5 Mississippi between knocking the door off its hinges and then entering and generally encourages photographers to document dynamic entries in crisis situations). I'm fairly certain Anthony McClain and 'Holly' aren't there.

[Brandybuck]

Time to start treating the cops as terrorists.

[Duke of URL]

The judge publicly apologized for rubber stamping the home invasion terrorism, and swore to never rely on the veracity of these thug's affidavits ever again, right?

[ElvisIsReal]

Surely he was fired, or at least suspended!

[Rise of the Impedance]

From the picture, I can only assume jungle camo the correct attire for invading an apartment.

[mad.casual]

The K-9/Breacher/Dynamic entry unit combination is interesting (to the point that the lead man appears to have a K-9 patch on his shoulder). I can only assume the dog is there to either get shot or guarantee that someone in charge of the dog gets shot (seriously, it's a Rottweiler, not a German Shepherd or scent hound).

I know it makes me a bigoted American and goes against my general "Who cares if cops kill dogs?" sentiments, but the dynamic entry and clearing group followed, later, by the K-9 unit makes a lot more sense to me personally.

[ducksalad]

Are we looking at the same picture?

I'm seeing no dog and a team that appears to have Italian insignia on their camo uniforms.

[Dogvalor]

The dog is between the legs of the second guy on the right. As for the insignia, I'm not familiar enough with police insignia to be able to tell but the guy at the front appears to have a dog as the picture.

[TangoDelta]

Completely understandable, Det. Tapp was probably high at the time he filled out the affidavit and probably has the hots for either Burr, Daugherty, or both.