ridiculous use if SWAT teams

[SmarterthanYou]

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/j...xhill-subdivision-poker-game/?partner=popular

Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputies raided yet another allegedly illegal gambling operation Wednesday night.

The latest raid targeted a poker game inside a private residence in the Bexhill subdivision in West Knox County, according to a KCSO spokeswoman Ashley Haynes.

Deputies discovered eight people around one poker table at 1304 Buxton Drive, and seized approximately $1,000 cash, Haynes said.

No arrests were made, but all information was turned over the Knox County District Attorney General’s Office for possible charges, she said.

so we're now raiding private poker games.

http://www.wate.com/story/15045358/deputies-conduct-gambling-raid-at-west-knox-county-home

comments from the home owner:

There were 8 people there the lady who let them in even with my reservations with the deputy on the phone who threatened arresting everyone there and getting warrants ( you see I was not at home I was and still am in the hospital). The lady was doing laundry My other roomate and two friends were playing a card game called Fantan its like 3 way solitaire on a poker table left out from our holiday get together Sunday. Fantan requires you to chip if you cannot complete a sequence – wel l since you can only play with 3 l dont see where 8 people around a table playing poker came in. There were other guests there watching TV and enjoying a quiet evening. The deputies claimed they were gambling because chips and cards were involved.

and a follow up:

they conficated my tables to be stored after our holiday party they broke them because they were too lazy to take them apart, they took non-denomination chips that we use for tourneys, the money they confiscated was not gaming money it was personal property of my guests in their pockets, in their search they found poker paperwork had stats and point values, my cell phone because it had poker related pictures and last names that said poker not last names, and a 2lb bag of epsom salts that they recorded on a receipt as drugs. 2 computers mine and my housemates My problem is they have embellished the truth with each raid to Justify to the public the “good” they were doing. I am outraged that they have my neighbors thinking I am some criminal because I play poker! Heck their coworkers, other law enforcement areas have been to games I have played in and hosted what about them?

of course, since this is our vaunted protectors of our personal safety and liberty, for without them we would surely perish, we must have the the obvious and arbitrary comments about how this dangerous life threatening operation involving great personal risk to our beloved police officers has made us safer, from none other than Chattanooga Police Sgt. Jerri Weary, who said the arrests resulted from intelligence the vice unit gathered and acted upon.

“Any arrest obviously reduces crime in our city and a crime reduction means safer streets and safer communities,” she wrote in an email.

A department news release issued in March shortly after the bust stated police seized $3,810 in cash, three flatscreen TVs and a camera surveillance system as part of a search warrant. Police also confiscated a large amount of gambling paraphernalia, including chips, cards and player log sheets.

i feel tons safer already. how bout you?

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

I seem to recall you claimed a SWAT team was collecting student loans a while ago.


Didn't that turn out to be a lie?