Under the guise of “checking for structural damage” police are kicking in doors and breaking into windows, of homeowners throughout the flood areas of Iowa and other states. How they get these addresses is anyone’s guess. Notice in the one video, the front yard is completely dry.
“No warrant, no knock home invasions are being carried out on the flimsy pretext of “checking for structural damage” as cops harass and threaten with arrest people who refuse to have their homes ransacked by thugs in uniforms.
Cedar Rapids police chief Greg Graham promised residents over the weekend that “Law enforcement officers are not entering homes,” and that firefighters would only enter homes through unlocked doors and windows yet the video clearly shows locked houses being broken in to.” from Prison Planet, here. A great article.
The police in this situation, again, over-reacted. After being tased, 26-year-old Felipe Alvarado, still on his hands and knees, received 4 kicks to the stomach and face before finally being pounced upon with the old “flying knees in the back and kidneys” technique (gaining popularity because the press never mentions it). But that wasn’t the end of the kicks.
(It is important to note how this started. The police suggest that these guys were suspects in a shooting just before… yet, note that the cops didn’t conduct a “Felony Stop” procedure. That’s what they do when they suspect armed perps. That where they draw their guns and command them to get out of the car and lay down on the ground. Instead, these cops run up to the car and start pulling them out physically. Does that seem like cops who think these guys may have guns in the car? Wouldn’t they be afraid the guys would shoot them? Instead these cops seem to know they are not armed, according to their own policies…)
PHILADELPHIA - A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation.
The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car Monday, two days after a city officer was shot to death responding to a bank robbery.
The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle. About a half-dozen officers hold two of the men on the ground. Both are kicked repeatedly, while one is seen being punched; one also appears to be struck with a baton.
