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When Local Police Become a “Standing Army”

When Local Police Become a “Standing Army”

As police powers have become more nationalized and centralized, the abuse of those powers has increased dramatically, threatening civil liberty. ...
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

“A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2 year-old son.”

A toddler was put in a medically induced coma and hospitalized for more than a month after a Cornelia, Georgia, SWAT team tossed a flash-bang grenade into his crib during the execution of a “no-knock” warrant.

Bounkham Phonesavanh was 19 months old and was asleep in his crib when police broke down the front door of the residence he was in in the early morning hours on May 28 and threw the grenade into the front room. His mother, father, and three sisters were in the room as well.

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