SWAT team bursts into a woman’s home in search of meth lab. They leave a gash under her eye, smash her head against the floor, bust out windows, break down doors, and toss items out the second story window.

No meth lab. No meth. No drugs.

They then raid her son’s trailer, parked in front of the home, and find a little marijuana.

Guess it was all justified then, eh? In an ensuing article, the sheriff says the woman’s injuries were her own fault, for “running” when the black-clad cops broke into her home with guns.

With photographic goodness.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 23rd, 2006 at 1:31 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Police Militarization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.