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SWAT Raids are Out of Control​

Jul 15, 2024

Imagine a SWAT team raids a house—battering doors, breaking windows, and coating everything inside with tear gas residue. Now imagine the SWAT team had the wrong address. Who do think would pay for the damage? If you said insurance, you’re probably wrong. If you said the city, you’re probably also wrong.

Today, IJ attorneys Jeff Redfern and Dylan Moore talk with us about this nightmare situation facing homeowners across America – and how the Institute for Justice is fighting to change it.


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VICTORY: Judge Rules that Woman is Entitled to Damages Under Texas Constitution After SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home While Pursuing Fugitive - Institute for Justice

SHERMAN, Texas—Today, a federal judge ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages, plus interest, after a SWAT team destroyed her McKinney, Texas, […]
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Justices take up case on right to sue over mistaken SWAT raid

The Supreme Court will weigh in on whether a Georgia family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team can sue the federal government for the error. Just […]
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Supreme Court allows family’s suit against government for “wrong house” raid to continue

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a family’s lawsuit against the federal government to move forward. With the lawsuit, the family seeks to hold the government liable […]
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The problem is not the law, but the "courts." The kangaroos appointed by Valerie Jarrett and by Biden's Autopen.
 
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Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.​

Aug 25, 2025
In this episode, we bring you the disturbing story of St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, whose lies led to the wrongful prosecution of dozens of people—and put an innocent teenage refugee in jail for two years. Will she ever be held accountable?
Today we’re joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, one of the leaders of IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability.
We’re discussing Patrick’s lawsuit against Officer Weyker, how courts have systematically closed doors to government accountability, and how IJ is trying to wrench those doors back open.

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SWAT Team Arrives 5 Years Too Late, Causes 20K Worth of Damage, Then Refuses to Pay​

Aug 26, 2025 #lawenforcement #bodycam #lawyer
Kim received an alert on her phone that someone was at her front door. To her surprise, it was a SWAT team with their armored vehicle, about to break down her front door and ransack her home. Eventually, detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department realized they had arrived at least 5 years too late to find their suspect. Leaving behind over 20 grand worth of damage to Kim's home, they offered no explanation, no apology, and refused to pay for the damage they caused.
Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025...
Las Vegas Metro PD: https://www.lvmpd.com/home


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South Bend Mom’s Fight for Compensation After Police Raid Moves Forward - Institute for Justice

SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Amy Hadley’s home in South Bend was raided by a police SWAT team in June 2022. Her home still bears the scars of […]
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South Bend Mom Will Keep Fighting for Compensation after Wrong House Raid - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va.—Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal constitution does not require the government to compensate […]
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A Grandma's Retaliatory Arrest: IJ Takes Her Fight to the Supreme Court​

Mar 8, 2024

Americans have a long tradition of running for office with the goal of improving their local communities. After a fulfilling career in communications, Sylvia Gonzalez did just that. She knocked on the doors of 500 residents in Castle Hills, Texas, and squeezed out a win, beating a well-connected and powerful incumbent.

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After her election, Sylvia got right to work. Acting on her campaign promise, she helped spearhead a citizens’ petition advocating for the removal of Castle Hills’ city manager Ryan Rapelye. The petition was a non-binding vote of no confidence in Rapelye, who had come under criticism for mistreating his employees and failing to address citizens’ concerns, such as fixing their streets.

The petition did not sit well with Castle Hills’ incumbents, whose interests were well-represented by the city manager. Within weeks of winning her election, the harassment began. First, the city attorney, who was aligned with the mayor and the city manager, claimed Sylvia wasn’t properly sworn in and replaced her on the city council with the woman she’d just beaten. When a judge reinstated Sylvia, the city officials didn’t give up.

In fact, that was only the beginning. In the midst of their attempt to unseat her, the mayor and police chief used bogus charges and a rarely-used law to have Sylvia arrested, booked, and thrown in jail—but she had done nothing wrong. Once the county prosecutor got involved, he dropped the case against her.

Finally, after beating back the city twice, a group of citizens aligned with the mayor filed a lawsuit claiming Sylvia was incompetent. Sylvia stood her ground and won—but by then the damage had been done. Sylvia’s mugshot had been splashed across the news and her reputation dragged through the mud. Exhausted—with tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills—she stopped the fight to reclaim her seat.

The city’s retaliation clearly violates Sylvia’s First Amendment rights. If America’s democracy means anything at all, it means that a city can’t arrest its residents for speaking out against a city manager. The fundamental right of political speech is high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values and the courts exist to ensure that it is protected.

On September 29, 2020, Sylvia partnered with the Institute for Justice to file a federal lawsuit against Castle Hills to vindicate her First Amendment rights and hold the city officials accountable. On October 13, 2023, after a prolonged fight with the government over qualified immunity, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to Sylvia to review whether the Fifth Circuit correctly sided with the Castle Hills officials on that issue.


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SCOTUS: Post in thread 'Gonzalez v. Trevino - qualified immunity over First Amendment retaliation'

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Final Victory: Castle Hills Vote Confirms Sylvia Gonzalez’s Win Against Retaliation - Institute for Justice

Last night, the Castle Hills, Texas, City Council voted to ratify a settlement agreement that brings to an end the years-long lawsuit filed by former […]
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Well I'll tell you one thing or two based on my own experiences. First off if your expecting 100% perfection your dealing with the wrong simian. I got news for you, cops make mistakes. And I think when you have a bunch of guys with cop hair cuts, cop guns, cop dogs, talking like cops, its pretty safe to assume they are actually cops and maybe you should go along with the program and then get in line to be paid after as long as they don't find anything. Most raids that go bad are based on bad INTEL from bad sources or just getting beat in the flush race to the toilet with the BGs.

Anyway I just love when these gangsters with 5 pages of priors, which we can't release, get on CNN and act like Mother Theresa who just got screwed over. Its precious is what it is.

I never liked raids. Mostly I did them because they wanted a uniform going in first because they prefer getting shot last. Well I never wanted to get shot and certainly not first om some narco's, or tac teams, drug raid. I dont give a shit if some idiot is using drugs and I never much believed in this so called drug war in the first place. 99% of the drug pinches were for bullshit amounts on kids who were bit player's in the game. And thats what the system turned it into, a "game". It wasn't us who turned it into one even tho we got the blame.

The system wanted numbers to justify their budgets and positions.
 
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