Tracy Ingle: Another Drug War Outrage

[addicted2freedom]

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126284.html

About a month ago I got a call from a reporter for the Arkansas Times inquiring about my research into paramilitary drug raids. He'd been reporting on a raid in North Little Rock involving a 40-year-old man named Tracy Ingle. When he told me the story over the phone, I was floored, even given all the abuses and mistakes I've reported and read about over the last few years. What makes the case especially egregious is not that the police may have gotten the wrong home, that they shot a man, or that they were covering it up or going silent. We've seen all that before. What's mind-blowing about this one is that they've continued abusing the poorTracy Ingle's door. guy, even after it should have been clear for some time now that they made a mistake.

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When he awoke, Ingle says he thought his home was being invaded by armed robbers. He reached for a broken gun, a pretty clear indication that he had no intention of killing anyone, but rather was trying to scare away the intruders. When he grabbed the gun, an officer inside the house fired his weapon. The bullet hit Ingle just above the knee, shattered his thigh bone, and nearly severed his lower leg. When the outside officers heard the shot, they opened up on Ingle, hitting him four more times. According to Ingle's sister, one bullet still rests just above Ingle's heart, and can't be removed.

[CarolinaGuy]

"Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman."
Winston Churchill

Here's a nice little map that shows botched raids across the country.
link
Unfortunately, this is just a partial list.

Sickening.

[addicted2freedom]

"Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman."
Winston Churchill

Here's a nice little map that shows botched raids across the country.
link
Unfortunately, this is just a partial list.

Sickening.

Wow.... thanks for the link.