Toddler critically burned during SWAT raid

[Tsiyu]

Last edited Fri May 30, 2014, 04:47 AM - Edit history (2)

Source: WSBTV News

ATLANTA A family says a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured a 19-month-old boy with a stun grenade.

Alecia Phonesavanh told Channel 2’s Ryan Young her child is at the Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit, and is in a medically induced coma.

Phonesavanh said she was at her sister-in-law’s home in Habersham County early Wednesday when police raided the house.

"It's my baby. He's only a baby. He didn't deserve any of this," Phonesavanh said.





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^^^^^^^^^^This is your baby on ( a War on ) Drugs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^






This is a site to help the family, who have no insurance.

http://www.gofundme.com/9mih84



Thank you Habersham County, Thank you DEA, Thank you US lawmakers. Thank you Holder and Obama!

We love this war! It's awesome!

What the fuck else are you assholes gonna tell us is acceptable in your quest to find pills, pot and cocaine?

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Tsiyu.

[Tsiyu]

2. It's awful

Thanks for the K& R

[sakabatou]

3. The war has to stop.

[Tsiyu]

4. You got that right

The Administration, the Congress, the DEA, the State of Georgia, the For-profit Prison industry and most especially the Habersham County Special Response team are all complicit in this baby's agonizing terror.

They ripped a hole in this baby's chest as well, but the media are too squeamish to show that pic.

Gotta protect the violent thugs that call themselves law enforcement.

I hate this nation and what it has become

[sakabatou]

6. People say that Aghanistan is the longest war we're in

The longest war that's going is now over 40 years old.

[DeSwiss]

5. It's what Police States do.

- How much clearer does it have to made for people to see?

K&R

“Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission.

How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. ”

~V

[GliderGuider]

19. V got it, didn't he? He understood what's going on. nt

[DeSwiss]

22. In a nutshell, it is this:

''Once the state you have created largely controls the primary means of your survival, the state no longer needs you, you need it.''

How is this avoided? In many ways. In as many ways as one may find different types of grass. Different species of corn flower. Different types of frogs. Beetles. Snakes. Germs. You do it with: De-centralization -- Non-hierarchicality of systems -- Resource-based decision process, just like we see in the world itself.

- If we want to see the blueprints, all we must do is open our eyes.

Eve: ''All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please?''

V: ''No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordnung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”

V for Vendetta

And it's free.......

[GliderGuider]

23. +1 nt

[Enthusiast]

7. At least they prevented dangerous drug use.

Do I need the sarcasm thingie?

[sorefeet]

8. They did the same thing

to a little 7 year old girl in Billings. Swat raid no drugs. Haven't heard one word in the news since.

[Swede Atlanta]

9. This is another sign of how militarized our society has become over the past decades......

9/11 was just good cover for local police forces to weaponize themselves. I think they had always wanted to play "war" but could never justify the expense of the armored personnel carriers, battle armor, etc. 9/11 gave them that cover.

We have got to stop the "war on drugs". We need to be smarter about this.

Facts
1. Drug usage and drug availability has not been affected by the war on drugs
2. De-criminalizing or legalizing at least marijuana takes the profit out of the drug trade
3. Changes to drug sentencing has to happen because our prisons are bulging with non-violent drug offenders

I hope the municipality is sued and has to pay a significant award.

Maybe they will think twice before they do this again.

[Garion_55]

10. whats interesting to me is

after reading everything i can find on this story including the statement from the police, no one has mentioned how much Meth was found in this raid. how much meth is a young childs face worth?

END THIS STUPID WAR ALREADY

[McCamy Taylor]

11. I am close to tears. THis is the worst kind of felony if a private citizen does it.

Yet the SWAT will get off with a reprimand. Maybe even a "job well done."

[Blue Owl]

12. Fuck the war on some drugs and those who wage it

[seveneyes]

13. They'll just charge whoever they arrested with the crime of harming the baby

That's how our justice works in America today. Our politicians are to blame. A non-partisan cluster fuck.

[hatrack]

14. But what about the children? Wait . . .

Oh, right, never mind, they already covered that - with military thoroughness.

[Billy Budd]

15. I want Justice

I want Justice I demand the prosecution of those who perpetrated this barbarity on an innocent baby....

[Ed Suspicious]

16. The detective knew in his heart there were no children there. Al least next time he's gonna be

doubly careful.

So if I heard that right the family was at the home because their own home had just burned to the ground. So the baby avoids the fire, but can't get around the grenade to the face.

I hope the drug warriors feel the fires of the hell they belong in.

[Sunlei]

17. Military-like raids by City/Local police in HOMES need to be totally outlawed.

[jwirr]

18. It states the they have no insurance for their child. Why not? Well first of all Georgia did not

expand Medicaid and refuses to allow ACA. But this family is homeless because their home burned down. Unless they have fantastic jobs they should still qualify for the old Medicaid. What is the story behind this issue?

[Tsiyu]

20. Georgia is a cesspool of ignorance

from the Atlantic to Alabama

Tennessee is almost as bad

[jwirr]

21. Well this certainly shows what a failure they are at governing.

[packman]

24. War pictures of the innocent

How many pictures we've seen of children being held by their grieving family in war-zones. Their bodies torn by errant shells and misguided intents. Now this, another type of war with all of its brutality and "collateral damage." Damn it all.

[Dawson Leery]

25. Whenever the coppers ask for money for their fallen, I hang up or cut up the solicitation.

Coppers and their advocacy groups are part of the problem.

[Ash_F]

26. Let's see DU's resident badge sniffers defend this one.

[NutmegYankee]

33. They already have.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5024314

[Ash_F]

27. Hope this spawns a movement to ban no-knock warrants.

What happened to the stake-out? Did the police forget how to police?

[LeftyMom]

29. The whole point of no-knock warrants is to find drugs before they get flushed.

They're dangerous to cops, to ordinary people, to children, to animals, but who fucking cares? Gotta find the drugs before they go down the porcelain express.

[Ash_F]

30. They can secure convictions without it

The Sheriff sounds like garbage. Totally unapologetic. Bet the 65 year old white people that make up 90% of the turn-out in that county love electing him.

[CrispyQ]

28. Stop this stupid war on drugs that doesn't do a damned thing to thwart those who want drugs.

Poor baby.

[Garion_55]

31. no drugs were found at the house!

just saw an update. only meth 'residue' was found and the suspect wasnt home at the time. they caught up with him later.

this kid paid with his face for no reason. fucking cops

[Evergreen Emerald]

32. Meth residue

So, it wasn't pot, but meth? They were cooking meth at the house with a baby?

It sounds as if there were lots of people who should take responsibility for this. The police, and the people who were breaking the law.