Kaiti Glazier said she and her daughter Nadiah were sleeping inside their home on 10th Street Southeast when these paramilitary cops from the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force stormed into her bedroom.
"When I woke up they were all in here (the bedroom) . . . I was like, 'What?' And it's just 'Hands up! Hands up!' " she said.Glazier said her 3-year-old also raised her hands up.
"I was like, 'What is happening? Is this real?' " she said.
The task force mistook Glazier, a woman, for Christopher Williams, a Canton man wanted for a probation violation.
Williams was evicted from that house over a year and a half earlier.
"They did no homework at all. I can find Chris Williams on the internet. I can Google better than they can apparently," said Glazier.
This home invasion happened after police even came by their home in November and spoke with her husband, confirming that Williams no longer lived at this address.
According to ABC 5, Glazier said she repeatedly asked the officers to show her a search warrant. She said the lead officer responded by threatening to arrest her.
Had the U.S. Marshals office simply apologized for their incompetence and left, Glazier would have still been offended, but she said it wouldn't have been as bad.
However, no one apologized or acknowledged a mistake had been made.
Instead, Glazier said, the task force went through every room in her home, searching through drawers and even looked in her bread box.
"Obviously Chris Williams isn't in the bread box, so I don't know if they were looking for something to try and incriminate us," said Glazier.
They did not leave for an hour after entering her bedroom.
"Why not be the good cop? That seems to be a mythical thing these days," said Glazier.
Glazier points out the fact that had she tried to defend herself from these home invaders, she likely would have been killed; and the thugs who broke into an innocent woman's home and murdered her, would most likely go unpunished. Sadly she is correct.
The U.S. Marshals office released the following statement in regards to their dangerous negligence:
U.S. Marshals Service-led task forces adopt state and local warrants involving violent fugitives, usually the "worst of the worst" violent offenders. In fiscal year 2013, we arrested more than 110,000 fugitives nationally. Whenever U.S. Marshals deputies and task force officers enter private residences, they do so in accordance with the laws of the United States. We cannot comment on potential or pending litigation, but any member of the public who believes that a Marshals Service employee acted negligently may submit a claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act. - Lynzey Donahue, Office of Public AffairsGlazier plans to file a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
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.... and now let's hope she can sue the living snot out of those rat bastards.
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
But one more thing that's really bugging me: did anybody else get the creepy, nauseating feeling that these blood-thristy psycho-monkeys calling themselves law enforcement deliberately issued the warrant KNOWING the fugitive wasn't there, just to have an opportunity to invade a citizen's domicile and either provoke a response that allows for the use of lethal force, or possibly find incriminating evidence without a valid warrant? (Which, btw, is now completely constitutional, thanks to the bathroom scum currently on the US Supreme court.)
I strongly suspect this utterly malicious motivation is a very large factor in all these wrongful no-knock entries where the info relied upon to issue the warrant was clearly outdated and easily discovered as such, and innocent citizens were severely traumatized or even injured/killed in the operation. It makes perfect sense, given the personality types law enforcement attracts.
In short, these donut-worshipping porkers literally live to invade, threaten, terrorize, bust and kill people. Innocent or not. Toddlers or adults. Healthy or infirm and/or aged. And the more homes and lives they can invade and tear apart, the happier they are. It's NOT about 'public safety'. It's all about POWER. The power to invade. The power to hurt and destroy. And the greatest intoxicant of all: the power over life and death.
Psychopathic? Absolutely no doubt about it! Textbook examples, sadly.
Law enforcement attracts psychopaths almost as much as politics. Maybe more. (Tough call there.)
Unfortunately, it appears that, just like the "BANKS" the police now include paying high penalties for mistakes is just another cost of doing business. And like the "BIG BANKS" Nobody takes responsibility and nobody goes to jail. This also makes clear the property confiscation that is happening to supplement police budgets so they can continue to afford to act with impunity.
well, that's the first thing wrong with this picture. wtf?
I think we're even past the point of seeing this as incompetence.
This is programmed stupidity and intentional harassment.
Next step is where cops walk down the street and randomly shoot at people. We're almost there.
Perhaps this is the way they train and practice now. Pick a name and address. Terrorizing the public:TTP 101 Get your certificate now.