Don't shop convenience stores in Summit Co.
...crazy people run into them under color of law and handcuff you.
I am soooo honored (NOT!) that my own county made Radley Balko's blog. He's right that this approach was totally unnecessary. The cops were afraid he had a gun; well, what convenience store owner DOESN'T? And wouldn't he be more likely to use it if a bunch of maniacs burst into his store? I don't patronize convenience stores, but gods only know when the local gendarmerie might get a burr up their butts about something and do likewise to me. Really, this SWAT team sounds like something out of "Team America: World Police".
Prince said her son, who has asthma, was soaking wet from being on the ground. She said she took him to a doctor the next day for breathing problems and she has been a bundle of nerves since.``What if someone started shooting? I could have been killed,'' she said. ``I just think it (the raid) was poorly planned. What about the customers in the store? I wasn't doing anything wrong.''
Thornton said a letter will be sent to Prince apologizing for the fact that she was ``caught up'' in an unfortunate situation.
``We are going to try to explain it to her,'' Thornton said.
Cash does more than letters can
to justify SWAT's ways to Man.
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