Lame brained raid of the week

These stories always make me feel like kicking something, like for instance the idiot cops who did this butts. The police chief at least apologized for the imbeciles who carried out this drug bust at the wrong home but there is really no excuse for this sort of incompentency.

Chief Mark Smith of Clarksville says his tactical team received a bad address from the drug agents with the Major Crimes unit, who got their information from an informant. Of cousrse that doesn't explain why the cops didn't notice that the people they were terrorizing were in their mid-50s when the person they were after was 24 years old. This scenario has become all too commonplace in this absurdly flawed war on some drugs and demonstrates once again how the enforcement of the law is causing more harm than the use of the illegal substance would. Picture this:

Teresa Guiler and James Elliott, who are in their 50s, were home watching television when the masked men stormed into the house. Guiler, whose arm was in a sling from a previous injury, told police that they had the wrong man as they pointed a gun at her and Elliott, who is deaf and had recently received a liver transplant, she said.

Police deny they used excessive force but what does this sound like to you. According to the couple's lawyer.

''What justification can you give to kick a 54-year-old man who's down on the ground,'' Meeks said about Elliott, who is a Vietnam War veteran. ''All he saw was men in masks with rifles. He was terrified. Then to get knocked down and stomped. They picked him up like a suitcase. The Police Department said they acted in normal procedure, but that's not normal.''

Sounds more like a terrorist act than a law enforcement action to me. Disgraceful.