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SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House
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Source:http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― On Monday, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan handed out honors to a team of officers involved in a botched raid at an innocent family's home more than seven months ago. The family is upset and their attorney criticizes the awards and questions the timing.

Just days before Christmas, the sound of intruders breaking into their home in North Minneapolis prompted Vang Khang to grab his shotgun to protect his six children. His terrified wife called 911.

Khang fired several shots at the "intruders" who turned out to be members of the Minneapolis Police Department's SWAT team. The officers returned fire. Their protective gear prevented them from being harmed by the bullets.

No one was hurt in the shootout last Dec. 16 and the Minneapolis Police Chief ordered an internal investigation. The house was left riddled with bullet holes and broken glass. Two days later, Dolan apologized to the family and launched an internal investigation to find out how the SWAT team wound up in an innocent family's house in the middle of the night.

The investigation determined that the team had gone there looking for a gang member's guns after an informant gave investigators in the department's Violent Offenders Task Force bad information. The investigation is ongoing.

On Monday, Dolan recognized members of the SWAT team for their bravery and how they handled the raid. With Mayor R.T. Rybak and other city officials looking on, the chief handed out medals and commendations.

"The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out," Dolan told the crowd. "This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled."

The Khang family was upset when they learned of the awards given to the SWAT team.

"They were outraged and they were hurt. They were hurt. To this day this family continues to suffer," said their attorney, former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger.

Heffelfinger said the family has notified the city that they plan to file a lawsuit over the botched raid. He questions the timing and motives for the award.

"Why now are we seeing the police department honoring these men? In this context, I'm convinced this is an effort on the part of the police leadership to sanitize the conduct of their officers on December 16," he said.

"The officers put themselves in harm's way. They were shot at and shot and deserved to be recognized," said Dolan in a statement defending the awards to the SWAT team.

Dolan said an internal investigation conducted by his staff cleared the conduct of the SWAT officers who raided the Khang home.

More than seven months later, the internal review has not finished looking into how the officers and supervisors in the Violent Offenders' Task Force handled the investigative piece of the case which preceded the raid at the Khang home. So far, no one has been disciplined in connection with the mistaken raid.


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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Damn.  What the hell...?


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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WHAT?!


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: demiu5]
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:nonono: fucking ridiculous.


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: sui]
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I'm surprised Mr. Khang even had a weapon.

Now days, people ask me, "Why do you have all those guns? Why do you carry a gun? Why is there a gun next to your bed?"

Funny thing is, I don't ask them why they DON'T!

I say, "Hurray for Mr. Khang!" Maybe he should look into some Black Talons for his new Springfield Armory .45 ACP. (Might want to beef up that front door to!) :minigun:


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: BrandNewbie]
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I'll shoot anyone that barges into my house.

Maybe cops will start acting like civilized people if they get shot every once in a while pulling this shit on low key suspects.



Anyone want to guess what the chances are this was a drug warrant?  I'm sure it was.


And yet people still defend the drug war, and some even want to expand prohibition to cigarettes.

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: johnm214]
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dude i just moved from minnesota. seriously. if you dont have like 10+ guns you cant be from minnesota. im only 22 and had over 30 guns!! buying guys was as easy as goin to wal-mart, being 21 and saying. give me that fucking gun. oh and you could buy ammo from wal-mart as well. buy gun, buy ammo, leave wal-mart parking lot. shoot up some bitches. thats how easy it was.


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Edited by minnesotaftl (08/01/08 04:07 AM)

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: johnm214]
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johnm214 said:
I'll shoot anyone that barges into my house.


Same here i keep my gun on the night stand next to my bed. My wife keeps hers right next to her on her side of the bed too. If we dont get ya the 2 pit bulls will.


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: minnesotaftl]
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i think all walmart's carry guns?  as long as your 18 or 21 you can buy rifles and walk out, pistols you gotta get background checked and wait a week or something


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: makaveli8x8]
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makaveli8x8 said:
i think all walmart's carry guns?  as long as your 18 or 21 you can buy rifles and walk out, pistols you gotta get background checked and wait a week or something


Yea most walmarts do. In my state there is no waiting period they just call ATF for back ground check and if they give the ok you walk out with your firearm. When i bought my Barrett 82A1 50-BMG from the gun shop they made me wait a few days. Maybe because of the type of gun it is.


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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it says an informant gave them bad information.  so do the cops not look into things after they hear it or do they just take people's word for it.  i mean, if i tell the cops my neighhbor is selling pounds of cocaine and he deals in illegal arms, will they just go ramming his door down?  WTF??

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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DesertWolf said:
When i bought my Barrett 82A1 50-BMG from the gun shop they made me wait a few days. Maybe because of the type of gun it is.



more likely than not, it was because computers were down or he
system was flooded with other buyers


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: norml840]
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Cool, I'm gonna get the swat on everyone I don't like.  :frown:

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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DesertWolf said:
johnm214 said:
I'll shoot anyone that barges into my house.


Same here i keep my gun on the night stand next to my bed. My wife keeps hers right next to her on her side of the bed too. If we dont get ya the 2 pit bulls will.


same here.  i need to take my fiancee shooting though. she knows how it works, but shes never fired one.  if someone breaks into our apartment, one of us isnt walking out alive.


edit:  also, what the fuck??? so now police are congratulated with medals when they fuck up??  :nonono:


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Edited by LeftyBurnz (08/01/08 06:46 AM)

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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:what:


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: DesertWolf]
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DesertWolf said:
Source:http://wcco.com/iteam/swat.team.honored.2.783216.html



On Monday, Dolan recognized members of the SWAT team for their bravery and how they handled the raid. With Mayor R.T. Rybak and other city officials looking on, the chief handed out medals and commendations.


"The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out," Dolan told the crowd. "This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled."



Surely it went horribly wrong when they busted down the door of an innocent families house?  Arrg this is almost as much of a joke as football (soccer) players.

Why are people celebrating incompetence? Looks like devolution is happening all too quickly.


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Why does God give us anything?

Look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, it would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.

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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: IdeLOLogies]
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"The officers put themselves in harm's way. They were shot at and shot and deserved to be recognized," said Dolan in a statement defending the awards to the SWAT team.

Dude, the risk of being fired at is PART of being a police officer, you stupid fucktards................ you don't award people for things that their job entails. Bullshit. :crankey:


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: Siekoaktiv]
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the important thing to look at is that the home owner shot and hit
the police, body armor protected them so they're OK, the police
with their superior training couldnt hit a damned thing
unless bed sheets deflect bullets now


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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: Prisoner#1]
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http://wcco.com/iteam/i.team.police.2.651664.html

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Khang fired three shots at what he thought were intruders from his bedroom. They returned fire with more than 20 rounds through a bedroom door, leaving the family's dream home riddled with bullets.


Khang did shoot two officers but they were not injured because of their protective gear.





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Re: SWAT Team Honored For Raid On Wrong House [Re: Prisoner#1]
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66.66%  accuracy. not bad khang, not bad.


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Edited by LeftyBurnz (08/01/08 07:51 AM)

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