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tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 08:04 PM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go?

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/22/15 09:50 PM
It's obvious, the little b@st@rd was lying in wait. Poised to lob a loaded diaper at cowering law enforcement agents.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 10:03 PM
It's obvious, the little b@st@rd was lying in wait. Poised to lob a loaded diaper at cowering law enforcement agents. HAHAHA ya never know, infants be crazy nowadays. thats messed up though, they coulda killed that baby. they burned the $h1t out of it. over 1 mil in hospital bills, and they settled for 964,000. half now half when boo boo turns 18. i woulda never settle, you no knock raid my house and throw a flashbang into my babies crib im suing for alot more than 1 mil. so that means theyll get 400,000+ now to pay some of the hospital bills, how the hell thye gunna pay the rest of the medical bills?

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/22/15 10:11 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 10:20 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. not arguing that. its those couple that gives all the rest a bad name. although i will admit it seems like the chicken$h1ts are growing.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 10:22 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. gnome did u do that avatar yourself? $h1t looks cool.

SassyEuro2 Joined Wed 04/29/15 Posts: 11102	Fri 05/22/15 10:40 PM
Damn! That is really bad. So inexcusable, I can't begun o list he wrongs. But one is is for sure. The family & the baby ( for his future), did NOT get enough MONEY. That amount is NOTHING !

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/22/15 10:51 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. gnome did u do that avatar yourself? $h1t looks cool. Thanks. But no, it was made for me by a friend of a friend... Based on a pic of me holding my Ruger P90. .45....

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 10:59 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. gnome did u do that avatar yourself? $h1t looks cool. Thanks. But no, it was made for me by a friend of a friend... Based on a pic of me holding my Ruger P90. .45.... ahhh ic cuz i noticed you have a cig hanging out of your mouth like in ur other pic, the other pic where you have the cig in youe mouth, r u holding a gun in that pic?

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Fri 05/22/15 11:06 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. gnome did u do that avatar yourself? $h1t looks cool. Thanks. But no, it was made for me by a friend of a friend... Based on a pic of me holding my Ruger P90. .45.... ahhh ic cuz i noticed you have a cig hanging out of your mouth like in ur other pic, the other pic where you have the cig in youe mouth, r u holding a gun in that pic? The real pic where I'm holding the Ruger? Yeah, there's a cig. There's a cig in all of the pics of me, except one... that pic, I'm flippin' the Bird and holding an Ithaca M1911 .45 That pic won't ever be part of my profile... as the site's rules prohibit "obscene gestures".

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Fri 05/22/15 11:10 PM
There are alot of good cops. It only takes a few chickensh!ts to make all cops look bad. gnome did u do that avatar yourself? $h1t looks cool. Thanks. But no, it was made for me by a friend of a friend... Based on a pic of me holding my Ruger P90. .45.... ahhh ic cuz i noticed you have a cig hanging out of your mouth like in ur other pic, the other pic where you have the cig in youe mouth, r u holding a gun in that pic? The real pic where I'm holding the Ruger? Yeah, there's a cig. There's a cig in all of the pics of me, except one... that pic, I'm flippin' the Bird and holding an Ithaca M1911 .45 That pic won't ever be part of my profile... as the site's rules prohibit "obscene gestures". haha ahhh obscene gestures. i tried postin a pic of mine a while ago but they took it off, magnum research 40 cal. baby desert eagle all black

mikeybgood1 Joined Sun 03/16/14 Posts: 495	Sat 05/23/15 07:21 AM
My question is how BAD a lawyer did the family have that can't get a slam dunk case of police brutality and criminal negligence settled IN court for multimillion dollars? Cops hit the WRONG HOUSE, find NO DRUGS, almost kill an INNOCENT CHILD, and have the balls to claim that an infant failed to deflect the incoming ordnance like some kind of baby ninja and is to blame for it's own injuries? Your lawyer can't somehow SHRED the cops to pieces in both the legal court AND the court of public opinion to generate a 5-10 million dollar settlement? Wow. Unbelieveable.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sat 05/23/15 08:04 AM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go? This is old news. There are several threads about this.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Sat 05/23/15 03:58 PM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go? This is old news. There are several threads about this. read the title, its an UPDATED article.

Lpdon Joined Thu 02/25/10 Posts: 18772	Sun 05/24/15 07:00 AM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go? This is old news. There are several threads about this. read the title, its an UPDATED article. $hit happens, sometimes mistakes are made, but they are RARE. If they had a credible tip and had surveillance of drugs being passed the parents shouldn't have put those kids in the situation. It is very easy to get rid of drugs really quick when police hit the door.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Sun 05/24/15 07:43 AM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go? This is old news. There are several threads about this. read the title, its an UPDATED article. $hit happens, sometimes mistakes are made, but they are RARE. If they had a credible tip and had surveillance of drugs being passed the parents shouldn't have put those kids in the situation. It is very easy to get rid of drugs really quick when police hit the door. haha wow, you wouldnt be saying that if it was your kid. they flashbanged a house over an alleged 50$ drug transaction, meanwhile the guy they are looking for isnt even there, and a baby gets burned so bad it has to be put in a medically induced coma. and your answer to that is o well **** happens? wow someone needs their head checked.

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Sun 05/24/15 11:07 AM
Wow this is sad. Poor kid. I will say before you live or work in a neighbor"HOOD" where low life's use their kids to hide illegal stuff they are doing on a regular basis you really don't know what police are up against. I feel real empathy for legit people who get caught in the cross fire but too often those "legit" people just shut up and ignore the crime they know is going on right next to them. Then they try to cash in on a payday that they got caught in the cross fire when they should have moved their "beloved" children the hell out of the area long before the police camp outside their door for two days. Or join Crime Watch and Caring Neighbor programs that do turn "bad" neighborhoods back into livable places.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Sun 05/24/15 11:15 AM
Wow this is sad. Poor kid. I will say before you live or work in a neighbor"HOOD" where low life's use their kids to hide illegal stuff they are doing on a regular basis you really don't know what police are up against. I feel real empathy for legit people who get caught in the cross fire but too often those "legit" people just shut up and ignore the crime they know is going on right next to them. Then they try to cash in on a payday that they got caught in the cross fire when they should have moved their "beloved" children the hell out of the area long before the police camp outside their door for two days. Or join Crime Watch and Caring Neighbor programs that do turn "bad" neighborhoods back into livable places. they did a no knock raid on a house because of a supposed 50$ drug deal. the suspect they were looking for was not even in the house. as a result a 19 month old baby was burned so bad it had to be put in a medically induced coma. all that for a supposed 50$ drug deal.

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21250	Sun 05/24/15 11:32 AM
Cops Who Flash Banged Infant’s Crib Are Blaming the Baby Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. by Joshua Krause \| The Daily Sheeple \| May 21, 2015 Nearly a year has passed since a Habersham County SWAT team stormed into the Phonesavanh residence, and very nearly killed their 19 month old child. The no-knock raid was prompted by an anonymous tip which suggested there were drugs in the house. As the officers forced their way into the home, they lobbed a flash grenade which wound up landing in the crib where baby “bou-bou” was sleeping. As it erupted, the infant suffered severe burns and had to be taken to the hospital, and placed in a medically induced coma. To any sane person, the sheriff’s department would be responsible for the damage inflicted on this child. Not only were there no drugs in the house, but the suspect they were looking for was found elsewhere. And despite their claims that they had the house under surveillance for two days prior to the raid, somehow they had no idea that there were children who lived there. Still, the family had to fight the county tooth and nail to have their $1 million in medical bills reimbursed. Last month they settled with the county, and received $964,000, half of which will be given to them now, and the rest will be given to baby after he turns 18. While it’s great to hear that the family is getting something out of this, it’s shocking to see how defiant the sheriff’s department was, right to the very end. They never once admitted culpability for their gross negligence, and in a bizarre twist, their defense statement in court basically blamed the infant for his own injuries. William Norman Grigg from the Pro Libertate blog read through the lengthy document, and sifted through the legalese for our benefit. It’s almost unbelievable how far the sheriff’s department was willing to go to avoid paying the family whose child they burned alive. The act of sleeping in a room about to be breached by a SWAT team constituted “criminal” conduct on the part of the infant. At the very least, the infant was fully liable for the nearly fatal injuries inflicted on him when Habersham County Sheriff’s Deputy Charles Long blindly heaved a flash-bang grenade – a “destructive device,” as described by the ATF, that when detonated burns at 2,000-3,500 degrees Fahrenheit – into the crib. Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack. In any case, Bou-Bou, along with his parents and his siblings, are fully and exclusively to blame for the injuries that nearly killed the child and left the family with more than one million dollars in medical bills. The SWAT team that invaded the home in Cornelia, Georgia on the basis of a bogus anonymous tip that a $50 drug transaction had occurred there is legally blameless. This is the defense presented by Haberham County Sheriff Joey Terrell and his comrades in their reply to a federal lawsuit filed last February on behalf of Bou-Bou Phonesavanh and his family. Can you believe that? It gets much worse from here. When photographic evidence of the baby’s horrific injuries were shown in court, the defendants denied that the photograph “accurately depicts the injuries allegedly sustained.” The statement goes on to the blame the parents and the baby because the damages caused to the child were “directly and proximately caused by the contributory and comparative negligence of the plaintiffs and their failure to exercise ordinary care.” And as a last-ditch effort to avoid paying the bill, the sheriff’s department invoked the principle of “laches,” which in the legal world, is a kind of use it or lose it statement. It basically means that you don’t have the right to sue, if you waited a long period of time in the hopes that future circumstances would favor your case. It doesn’t apply in this case at all because the family almost immediately filed a notice with the court after the incident. The origins and usage of that obscure and archaic legal term do offer some insight about the way Bou-Bou’s would-be murderers see themselves, and their victim. “Laches” is a term embodying the ancient legal maxim that “Equity favors the vigilant, and not those who have slumbered on their rights.” Defendants who appeal to this oft-cited and little-applied concept are accusing plaintiffs of subjecting them to a form of “legal ambush.” What Sheriff Joey and his cornpone chekists are claiming, in effect, is that while he was sleeping, Baby Bou-Bou ambushed them. How low can one police department go? This is old news. There are several threads about this. read the title, its an UPDATED article. $hit happens, sometimes mistakes are made, but they are RARE. If they had a credible tip and had surveillance of drugs being passed the parents shouldn't have put those kids in the situation. It is very easy to get rid of drugs really quick when police hit the door. Cops have been known to "hit" the wrong house. Mistakes can be made. Hell... You and I both know, that Banister didn't run the most competent sheriff's department that C.C. has ever seen.

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Sun 05/24/15 12:06 PM
Wow this is sad. Poor kid. I will say before you live or work in a neighbor"HOOD" where low life's use their kids to hide illegal stuff they are doing on a regular basis you really don't know what police are up against. I feel real empathy for legit people who get caught in the cross fire but too often those "legit" people just shut up and ignore the crime they know is going on right next to them. Then they try to cash in on a payday that they got caught in the cross fire when they should have moved their "beloved" children the hell out of the area long before the police camp outside their door for two days. Or join Crime Watch and Caring Neighbor programs that do turn "bad" neighborhoods back into livable places. they did a no knock raid on a house because of a supposed 50$ drug deal. the suspect they were looking for was not even in the house. as a result a 19 month old baby was burned so bad it had to be put in a medically induced coma. all that for a supposed 50$ drug deal. It is really easy to get stuck on the $50 dollar drug deal aspect but until you find your kid dead in a car with six others wrapped around tree because they were high as a kite on $50 worth of drugs it is hard to have perspective. You bust drug dealers when you get an opportunity and sadly this was bad intelligence work. When the cops came to get the creeps that were busted for home invasion on my home three years ago did not know if they were going to find bums scavangeing for food or finally have something to nail on a guy who had a rap sheet the length of my entire arm span. But they responded in a full swat mode and nailed him going over the fence a few hundred yards from my home with a back pack that showed he had been in at least 17 other elderly people's homes that morning. I was the only victim that went to court and kept going back while their public defenders kept stalling then at the last minute one rolled on the other and the worst got nervous and he plead guilty, actually getting prison time. And yes it was a minimal sentence but the rough justice he got in prison from the other prisoners he won't be climbing any more fences in this lifetime. And the other guy maybe got less but he also got shipped back to LA where he was under felony probation and parole and he subsequently got busted for another felony assault. So sometimes what seems like a petty crime rolls into a lot more. You get people for what you hope you can make stick. If you have a credible CI you will roll on a $50 drug pop. Again I am sorry that a child got the brunt of a screw up but being sorry for the kid does not undo anything. And if we bankrupt police departments for mistakes then nobody has protection.