“While I lay naked, I was cuffed so tightly I could not feel my hands. For no reason, at gunpoint,” Ms. Edwards said. “[Agents] refused to cover me, no matter how many times I asked.”
“I have never been in any trouble before,” Edwards also stated. “Haven’t even had a traffic ticket in over ten years.”
The couple claim to have seen several different agency uniforms and Edwards repeatedly asked who they were and why they were there. Edwards claimed that they would only identify as “police” and refused to identify why they were there.The couple has surveillance cameras which caught much of the action. When they were discovered, agents turned the cameras toward the wall.After two hours and after the agents had thoroughly trashed the house, Edwards was given a warrant signed by Jonathan Goodman, a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that authorized the agents to search for computers and electronics.Edwards’ boyfriend fixes up old computers but she claimed that the police barely looked at any electronics and did not seize any of the electronics in the house.Like so many recent instances regarding federal militancy, the root cause of the police action can be justifiable while the manner in which police are investigating alleged illegalities is wholly inappropriate. If the police had a warrant to search for electronics, it’s possible to have executed that warrant without the firepower once reserved for Army Rangers going door-to-door in Fallujah.
But will Americans take it back before it is to late . Germany 1937 or the ussr under stalin let it happen.
Just an after thought about this article, funny? When I first read DHS, I thought it to be Dept of Human Services and wondered what child abuse these folks had done. I’m a bit slow, took me a moment to realize they meant Dept of Homeland Security. I think I need to look up the DAD..the Dept of Alphabet Definitions.
One has to wonder what they tell these storm troopers before they go on these raids. They have to know they are violating the cons$#%&!@*ution and, these citizens.
I know why. He pissed them off when he left. Probably complained about their heavy handed tactics.
By the way they stripped her naked, it sounds like she pissed off an old boyfriend at DHS.