this time by ATF:
MIAMI --
Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives barged into a South Florida home Wednesday only to discover they had the wrong address.
The ATF agents were supposed to conduct a raid at a home in the 2600 block of Northwest 49th Terrace in northwest Miami-Dade County, but they were off by one block. They entered a house on Northwest 49th Street instead.
Philomaine Silvain and her 3-year-old son were among the innocent people inside the home when the agents came in.
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Her back window was also broken from where federal agents fired canisters into the apartment at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The agents left the tear gas cans in the house, and Silvain kicked them out and into the street before dumping them into the garbage.
So, among other things, there's at least one kid in the house and they can't even pick up the damn gas cannisters before they flee?
No one from the ATF would speak to NBC 6 on camera, but a representative said over the phone that it was an innocent mistake, agents apologized on the scene and ATF would repair any damages.
And if they'd managed to injure or kill one of those innocent people, what would we hear? You know damn well, the same thing that's been heard in too many 'wrong people/wrong address' raids: "The officers were following departmental policy for a raid of this type. It is a tragedy, but it was an innocent error, therefore no action will be taken against the officers involved."
And let us note just how this kind of crap fits into Sir Robert Peel's principles, as noted by Lawdog:
There are times, though, when I am forced to wonder if some of my fellow Peace Officers have even heard of the Peelian Principles.
And I guaran-damn-tee you that a whole bunch of politicians and police administrators (but I repeat myself) have never heard of #9.
Amen
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