On December 28 of 2017, someone in California thought it would be amusing, while playing a video game, to call in a false report concerning a violent crime and give a random address in Wichita, Kansas. A few minutes later, the Wichita Police Department permitted its untrained officers to act as a SWAT team. A pig named Justin Rapp took aim and pulled the trigger within about sixteen seconds of an innocent by the name of Andrew Finch opening his front door to find out why there was suddenly so much commotion. No one spoke to Finch before he was shot. While Finch lay dying, his mother and two young children in the home were forced to stand outside, in snow, without coats and shoes. No ambulance was permitted near Finch until he died.
Fast forward to this morning: Justin Rapp will not be charged. The clear message here is that the police in Wichita can pretend that they have a SWAT team when they do not, pretend that they negotiate when they have not been trained, and shoot innocent people for no reason. Murder is legal there.
Welcome to Kansas, Tyler Barriss! You now get to wake up in the land of tornados, flying monkeys, and the yellow brick road! You never thought it would happen, did you? Even if your mommy comes up with the money to pay your $500,000 bail and flies to Kansas to bail you out of jail in Sedgwick County, you'll just go to jail in Canada, where you called in a false police report on someone else you didn't like.
Today, inclement weather notwithstanding, Tyler Barriss, the California man who got angry with Andrew Finch, of Wichita, Kansas, and made a false report that sent a SWAT team to Finch's home; where a trigger happy cop shot and killed Finch; was picked up in Los Angeles and flown to Kansas. He is now in the Sedgwick County Detention Center, all 125 pounds of him, on charges of involuntary manslaughter, giving false alarm, and falsely reporting a felony.
While it is wonderful to see accountability in Barriss's case, the police officer who actually committed the murder of Andrew Finch still deserves to be held accountable, as well. We need this officer's name.
Sheriff David Groves, of Cherokee County, Kansas, decided to help Missouri out with a bench warrant for some guy named Doug Alexius. Alexius had missed court for a misdemeanor charge, and getting him back to wherever he was supposed to be was a matter of top priority. The pigs in Kansas have stated over and over again that Alexius was wanted for a felony, but upon closer scrutiny, it has become clear that this was only a bench warrant for missing court. To fast forward to December 16 of 2015, Groves decided that since a woman named Nita Lane had once dated Mr. Alexius, he must have hidden in her home. So he sent a nice fat pig to knock on her Galena, Kansas door. She put a clothespin on her nose (not really, but she should have) and told the pig that Mr. Alexius did not live at her home, was no longer a friend or acquaintance, and was not inside the home at the time. The pig came back with an outdated infrared camera, and without stopping to read the directions for use, snapped some shots of the house. As it happened, there were sources of heat inside! Imagine that, in the middle of December! Mr. Piggie knocked on the door again, and informed Ms. Lane and her children that they had to evacuate the premises while he and his SWAT team goons "negotiated" with the "fugitive from justice".
This is where Kansas cops and the FBI tore into the upstairs of
Nita Lane's house. The broke a bunch of windows, too.
Ms. Lane gathered up her children and vacated, while repeatedly telling the pigs that their quarry was not on the premises. The pigs responded by spending nineteen hours calling out epithets and threats to an empty house. Finally, after an entire night, followed by the next day, of threatening to "rotate his officers out", Sheriff Groves and the FBI decided it was time to give up and go have doughnuts and coffee. While searching, they poked holes in the side of the house, used a wrecker to smash the upstairs, threw the childrens' toys and personal belongings everywhere, tore apart the Christmas tree and stomped on all the ornaments, and threw the Christmas tree out the window.
The FBI decided that all the windows, the siding, the walls, and the structure of the house, itself, could be fixed with $8,000.00, which they graciously offered to the now homeless Ms. Lane and her children. To be completely real here, $8,000.00 probably wouldn't even get the family a new roof, let alone fix all the other damage done by the police in Kansas. No mention was made of reimbursing the family for the furniture, or for the childrens' toys. A gofundme page has been set up to help.
We now hold fundraisers for the victims of police violence. Is there anyone out there, still, who does not understand why policemen are known colloquially as "pigs''? It might also be worth a mention that despite the status of Doug Alexius as a fugitive, The FBI and Kansas law enforcement do not appear terribly interested in media coverage to assist in his capture.
On September 5 of this year, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a twenty-seven year old woman named India Yager was driving her car. Seated in the passenger seat was her boyfriend, and in the back was her four month old son, riding in a carseat. She pulled into 7/11, when suddenly, a bunch of cops in swat team gear blocked her car and threw a stun grenade in front of her. Within fifteen seconds, the police had shot thirty bullets into India's vehicle. She and her boyfriend were both killed; her baby and her older son are without a mother, now.
The cops told the media that India's boyfriend had shot at them first, but only "hit their clothes". There has been no evidence in the investigation to show that anyone in the vehicle fired shots, or even had a weapon in tow. There has also been an inane story circulated about how India's boyfriend was a person of interest in a crime somewhere....possibly a murder.....yet no solid facts on that, either, such as the identity of the alleged murder victim! No complainants or crime victims of any kind can be found to back up the pigs' version of events. India was a veteran, and had no criminal record.
Fifteen seconds. That was all the time that was required. None of the questions posed by India's family have been answered, and it does not appear that there is even going to be a true investigation. Despite this, the pigs still refuse to give India's mom any of the personal items that were in the car when India was murdered. This includes a sketch pad, containing some of India's art. It seems that law enforcement, at the very least, could give that back to her family.
A naked woman got mad and ransacked a MacDonald's in Florida. Well.....almost naked. Someone called the cops, and they came in and watched, allowing the woman to throw cash registers and ice cream machines around the restaurant until she ran out of energy. These cops were male, by the way. Now we know how to keep the swat team at a safe distance: be a naked woman!
How come no one ever does anything like that when I'm around?
Today is The Day We Fight Back. Government agencies have gathered private information on Americans and stored it, only using it to their own advantage. We never hear about missing children getting found because of data gathered by the NSA, or travelers warned of danger by spying government agencies, yet we hear, more and more often, about SWAT teams mysteriously finding addresses that might belong to petty criminals and barging into the wrong houses, and about violent cops who do not wish to appear on camera. The longer this continues, the less the Fourth Amendment mean to the American people.
Here is a link to take action now. Using your zip code, the website will help you find the appropriate representative for your area. Congress will get quite a bit more email today than usual, so it is recommended that you telephone Congress, as well.
District Heights, Maryland, yesterday, 6:00AM....FBI agents, swat team, weapons drawn....but Emory Hughley was never told why. He told the swat team that no one had any weapons when they noisily let themselves into his house, yet immediately after he said that, someone shouted that he had guns. The agents shot the wall full of holes, and shot at his eighteen year old daughter. Yet.....still no explanation about why the FBI conducted the raid in the first place. There is also a conflict between the diagnosis of a flesh would sustained by Hughley's daughter, thanks to a stray bullet; and the testimony of one of the agents, who reported that the injury was caused by falling. Really makes me want to trust law enforcement in Maryland. Not. This seems to be going on a lot, lately.
Kenneth Wright, of Stockton California, got a surprise. He answered the knock on his door, before he had a chance to get dressed, to find not only a local policeman, but federal officers and a swat team. Curious, he let them in, so they could explain what they wanted, and they served him with a search warrent, but still were not clear about what they were trying to find! They threw him on the floor, handcuffed him,, and put him in a squad car for about six hours. They got his three kids up, and put them in the squad car, too. Where's the eye-rolley when I need it?
Finally, the reason for all of the police activity became clear: Mrs. Kenneth Wright had defaulted on a student loan. The search warrent was to find her, not Mr. Kenneth Wright, or any of the children. Certainly not to handcuff anyone and put them in the squad car for most of the day. Was she there? No. She and her husband have separated, and she lives somewhere else. This is known, since the appropriate documents have been filed in court, pending a divorce. All the swat team would have had to do in order to determine this for themselves would have been to ask if she was there, and.....is everyone ready for this? LISTEN to Mr. Wright's answer. LISTEN. And read the court papers, which undoubtedly contain her current address.
Since when does the swat team assist in the collection of overdue student loans? The IRS does not even get that kind of assistance! And a deadbeat noncustodial parent can owe child support all of his/her life and NEVER pay without seeing the swat team at his/her front door. We have missing children who are not found for decades, and often not found alive, we have violent criminals who elude capture until they are elderly. We also have organized crime, kiddie porn, cyberstalking, and identity theft. Why is the swat team getting paid by US to collect on bad debts? It's bad not to pay a debt, but don't we have ways of collecting that do not involve forces that are trained to deal with emergencies involving violence and truly dangerous people and circumstances?
I, personally, resent having to pay, as a taxpayor, for collection agents outfitted like this. I do not think they need swat team gear and amunition. And, Kenneth Wright feels that he is entitled to a new front door. Apparently, his door was a casualty to the swat team's theatrics.
