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Ismael Lopez likely did not know that the person who killed him in his own home was a police officer. He was shot when officers were trying to serve a warrant in a tragic wrong-house raid Sunday night. Officers did ...

SWAT teams have become a weapon that anyone — including sociopaths — can deploy against innocent law-abiding citizens. In a growing-but-disturbing practice called “swatting,” a bad guy places a false 911 call to police designed to provoke a SWAT-team raid ...

A SWAT team kept residents of an off-grid community in handcuffs for several hours while code enforcement officers confiscated and destroyed their organic crops, a new lawsuit alleges. The suit arises from an incident in which police with automatic weapons ...

Not having electricity or natural gas in your home can have some shocking consequences in St. Louis County, Missouri. A lawsuit alleges that a SWAT team raided a woman’s home and killed her dog in an attempt to enforce a ...

A single mother would like to know why a SWAT team drove an armored vehicle through her fence, ransacked her 6-year-old son’s bedroom and did an estimated $10,000 worth of damage to her home – all while she was gone. ...

The only pretext a SWAT team needs to temporarily seize your property is to use it as an observation post in an emergency situation, a federal judge in Nevada has ruled. Police even have the right to smash down your ...

Police used a SWAT team, an armored vehicle and a flash-bang grenade to raid the home of a man wanted simply for unemployment insurance fraud. To make matters worse, the raid ended with the shooting of a North Miami Beach ...

Sherriff’s deputies who killed an innocent Georgia businessman and grandfather in his own home during a no-knock drug raid were apparently acting on a tip from a known methamphetamine addict. To make matters worse, the addict had reportedly stolen the ...

The family of the toddler severely burned by a SWAT team’s flash-bang grenade has had another trauma inflicted upon them by local authorities: Habersham County, Georgia, officials are refusing to pay the child’s medical bills. Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh had ...

In a story that has sparked a debate over the drug war, a Tampa, Florida, SWAT team shot and killed a man during a nighttime drug raid but found only $2 worth of marijuana in his home. The man, Jason ...