re: Who remembers that TOTALLY legit bust and murder by cop in Houston?

COPS died

one was paralyzed

b/c of dirty, lying cops

This looks like a perfect storm of frick up. Like a Tarantino script.

The cops are pieces of shite. Not all. Probably the vast majority “knew” they were going off of good information.

Then the house they frick up and raid is a god damned hornets nest!!? I am a gun owner, but how many of you out there could wound 5 (I believe it was 5) cops during a raid? Do you have a pistol in every cupboard? I got a pistol and a shotgun. If a swat team of cops come through my door, scare the shite out of me, and I am able to get to one of my guns, I can probably give one or two some problems. But 5?

The ENTIRE thing makes ZERO sense and the shite we keep getting fed smells and tastes like shite.

They are in a sketchy area. Does that make them sketchy people doing their own sketchy shite? Or are they armed to the teeth out of fear? Were they loaded for bear for a home invasion that came in the form of police?

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So one incident is a reason not to "back the blue"?

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A wiser position would be to weigh each incident separately and decide what to do. Blind loyalty and patriotism allow things like this to happen and go unchecked by and large. (Though not in this specific case apparently.)

I don't "back" anyone the way the people that truly believe these slogans do. Maybe a wife if I had one, but that's it.

There is a lot in the link so I can really quote it but it’s a good a read.

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The chronicle has a pretty damn piece today. Reads like it’s from the wire

In the months after the botched raid on Harding Street, the Chronicle scoured dozens of Goines’ warrants — along with those executed by the rest of his squad — and reviewed past arrests. The Chronicle found the vast majority of Goines’ warrants — and those of his fellow squad members — were no-knock raids, operations that Acevedo has since barred narcotics officers from performing in most cases.
To obtain a no-knock warrant, Goines had to convince a magistrate or judge that the target house was dangerous or that drug evidence could be quickly destroyed if officers weren’t able to enter the home quickly.
Goines sought nearly 100 no-knock warrants over the last 12 years of his career, according to a review of court records. In virtually every case, he said confidential informants had seen firearms in the home he wished to raid. In subsequent paperwork showing what he recovered from the raids, Goines recorded having seized firearms only once.
“It certainly raises a red flag someone should be looking at to make sure he’s not fudging the numbers,” Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina, said about Goines. “That’s a supervisory or management issue.”

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Well atleast he’ll be getting a nice Netflix special soon I’m sure