SWAT Team - I Shot The Sheriff - Actually He Shot Himself

"Six people were detained after a drug raid at a home in the 4000 block of North Bonita Street in Casa de Oro, authorities told NBC 7/39.


Officials said the officer was hurt when he tripped in the messy yard and accidentally shot himself in the foot.

Officers used flash bangs to enter the homes while serving search warrants on two homes."

This news found at

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/10574920/detail.html

is very interesting for a number of reasons:

Professor Kraska has pointed out people believe that SWAT team members are highly trained to some set professional standards. They are not. Most teams "do their own thing". I am not saying there is no training at all - but I am saying there is no standardized approved training at either the state or Federal level, to my knowledge.

Hence you get Barney Fife here literally shooting himself in the foot. Doesn't every sane gun owner in the world (and one would think in particular, a SWAT Ninja) at least know to keep their finger out of the trigger guard - until you have made the decision to shoot?

There is a video and a 10 picture "slide show" included in the article. Take particular note of the slide show at:

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/slideshow/news/10574996/detail.html?qs=1;s=1;dm=ss;p=news;w=400

In both pictures #4 and #5 note that there are no identification patches on the front of the officer's uniforms. There clearly are patches on their shoulders and backs. This is not unusual, I have found plenty of pictures of SWAT teams on raids that have identification on the shoulders and back - but not on the front.

So just what is the home owner supposed to think is happening when Ninjas dressed in black, with no visible ID, throwing flash bangs (and mumbling an unintelligible "police") burst into their house in the middle of the night? That his home is being invaded by thugs of course!

Again on the flash bangs: they are dangerous concussion bombs designed to deafen, blind and disorientate people. Houses and people have been set afire during raids by these things.

I always about choke when the pseudo-army men say they announced themselves and had identification and the occupant clearly should have known it was the police attacking --- after they've thrown in flash bangs. I don't know how they can say it with a straight face.........


Finally, start counting the times where you read a SWAT team shot and/or killed somebody because the person shot "pointed a gun at them". Unless the person is suicidal - no sane person would do that when confronted with one of our Ninja armies.

Isn't it more likely, that as in this case, Ninja Barney's finger twitched on the trigger and blew somebody away again?

But the same rather nonsensical excuse gets used and accepted over and over again.

Nick