CDR: SWAT Team Guns Down 11 Year Old In His Own Home

Michael Motyka mmotyka at lsil.com
Fri Sep 15 09:32:31 PDT 2000


> 
>http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,194747,00.html
>
>An 11-year-old Modesto boy was fatally shot early Wednesday morning
>when police SWAT team officers on a federal narcotics sweep raided his
>parents' home. Police said the shooting was an accident.
>   
>Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh-grader at Prescott Senior Elementary
>School, was pronounced dead in his home at 2524 McAdoo Ave., just east
>of Highway 99 in the north Modesto neighborhood commonly known as
>Highway Village. He died from one shotgun round to the back, Police
>Chief Roy Wasden said.
>
>...
>
>-- 
>Eric Michael Cordian 0+
>O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
>"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
>
What life was going to be saved by this armed raid? Shouldn't the
standard for justifying such a raid be a bit higher than "it's a drug
charge your honor?" Who elected the "law and order" morality-spewing
politicians? We are our own worst enemy. We made this evil crawling
monster.





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