Despite Repeated Grave Errors Judges Continue To Sign Off On No-knock Warrants Putting Vulnerable People At The Mercy Of Incompetent & Corrupt Police…

It hap­pens dai­ly, repeat­ed­ly, and usu­al­ly, the back­sto­ry is the same. Oftentimes it ends with a Black per­son dead, a fam­i­ly shat­tered, and no one held accountable.
Police con­tin­ue to barge into the homes of Black peo­ple, usu­al­ly on the flim­si­est of evi­dence of wrong­do­ing. Raids are pred­i­cat­ed on the infor­ma­tion of some­one they have over a barrel.
Despite the dan­gers inher­ent in using the infor­ma­tion of a sin­gle infor­mant to break into some­one’s home, police con­tin­ue to do so in black neigh­bor­hoods with alarm­ing fre­quen­cy while look­ing for drugs.
Set aside the fact that, in gen­er­al, even if African-Americans do have drugs in their homes, they most assured­ly are the low­est on the totem pole. Poor Black peo­ple lack the means to import drugs into America; the dirty lit­tle secret in this sor­did affair is that the importers of these con­tra­band face no scruti­ny in their lily-white sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties, let alone fear police raids.
Usually, crim­i­nals fac­ing pres­sure from police to pro­vide infor­ma­tion on oth­er law­break­ers are inclined to give false infor­ma­tion about peo­ple they do not like.
Using infor­ma­tion derived from pres­sur­ing career crim­i­nals is a dan­ger­ous game that police engage in that endan­gers inno­cent Black American lives.

Police dressed up as sol­diers act out war­rior fan­tasies they see in video games, but the result for their vic­tims is no laugh­ing mat­ter. Dead rel­a­tives, trau­ma­tized chil­dren, bul­lied and abused by white police offi­cers in what ought to be the sacred sanc­tum of their homes.
Usually, they barge into the wrong homes, trau­ma­tiz­ing chil­dren with their Rambo per­sona, leav­ing a trail of destruc­tion to per­son­al prop­er­ty. The bot­tom line is that when those white cops oper­ate in Black com­mu­ni­ties, they oper­ate as over­seers. To them, every­one in the com­mu­ni­ty is beneath them; every­one is a criminal.
They do not serve the com­mu­ni­ties; they go out to bru­tal­ize and sub­ju­gate. This is what Black Americans are sub­ject­ed to.
Despite a long-run­ning his­to­ry of these night­mare sce­nar­ios occur­ring with dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences, judges con­tin­ue to sign off on no-knock war­rants cost­ing inno­cent lives and count­less mil­lions in prop­er­ty dam­age as the state agents oper­ate with total impuni­ty when they enter the homes of Black families.
They make sure they cause as much prop­er­ty dam­age as pos­si­ble, and there are no con­se­quences for their actions.
They snuffed out the lives of Breonna Taylor using a no-knock war­rant; one would have thought that the prac­tice would have end­ed after they wrong­ly entered her home and mur­dered her, but her Black life is of no con­se­quence to them, so the prac­tice con­tin­ues on steroids.
Police are mere tools of Government; if the politi­cians want­ed those prac­tices end­ed, they would end imme­di­ate­ly. The unmit­i­gat­ed truth is that those who wield polit­i­cal pow­er have no inter­est in defang­ing the war­rior cop phe­nom­e­non that has over­tak­en America. That goes for Republicans and Democrats.

In Chicago, police rou­tine­ly use no-knock war­rants to look for drugs in Black peo­ple’s homes. The results are usu­al­ly the same, it was the wrong house, and the infor­ma­tion came from a sin­gle informant.
Nevertheless, the police go in guns drawn, yelling and scream­ing at small chil­dren and sub­ject­ing them to hours of humil­i­a­tion even when they are told they are in the wrong homes.
This is state-spon­sored tyran­ny made worse by police depart­ments loaded with white suprema­cists oper­at­ing under the col­or of law.

A Flint fam­i­ly is suing the Michigan State Police for what they call acts of dis­crim­i­na­tion and vio­la­tions of their civ­il rights. Just over a year ago, Michigan State Troopers knocked down their door to look for evi­dence in a dri­ve-by shoot­ing. However, nobody in the fam­i­ly was actu­al­ly involved. Lawyers for the fam­i­ly say this inci­dent vio­lat­ed one of Michigan’s non-dis­crim­i­na­tion laws, as well as the fam­i­ly’s con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­tec­tion. They’re seek­ing dam­ages for the fam­i­ly’s emo­tion­al trau­ma from the event. “I am just so grate­ful that this day did­n’t turn out like so many oth­er days for peo­ple who look like us. So many peo­ple who did­n’t get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to stand up in front of you and tell you how wrong­ly they were treat­ed because they were killed by the peo­ple who were sup­posed to pro­tect them,” said Aaron Dunigan, whose moth­er and sis­ter were the sub­jects of an alleged no-knock raid last April. But he said the trau­ma is still with them.
On April 21, 2021, Michelle Colston was get­ting her chil­dren ready for bed with the help of her moth­er, Renee Dunigan, when they said Michigan State Troopers used a bat­ter­ing ram to enter their apart­ment unannounced. 

They say the troop­ers made them keep qui­et as they inves­ti­gat­ed the home, with no access to their phones to let their fam­i­ly know they were okay. Lawyers for the Dunigan/​Colston fam­i­ly allege that troop­ers’ bias­es led them to rush the inves­ti­ga­tion. “What hap­pened was they saw a car in the dri­ve­way and jumped to a con­clu­sion that it belonged to one fam­i­ly… And what this real­ly was was slop­py police work. It would not have occurred in a white com­mu­ni­ty. It’s police work that says they’re all the same, they’re all guilty,” said Attorney Will Goodman. They said this alleged pro­fil­ing vio­lat­ed Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, and that the Troopers’ behav­ior in the home vio­lat­ed the fam­i­ly’s 4^th and 14^th Amendment rights. They’re seek­ing dam­ages to help cov­er men­tal health­care and ther­a­py costs as they work to regain their sense of secu­ri­ty. “There are small chil­dren in this fam­i­ly, who- before this hap­pened- trust­ed the police. They were told to respect the police. Now, when they see the police, they ask their mom and grand­ma, and uncle ”are they going to kill us?’ ” said, Attorney Julie Hurwitz. A spokesper­son for Michigan State Police had no com­ment but in a state­ment last year, they said they used a cruis­er’s P.A. sys­tem to noti­fy the fam­i­ly from out­side. The Duncan/​Colston legal team said that claim is false.

Bunch of liars.
Whenever there is an out­cry about the police attack on the rights and dig­ni­ty of Black cit­i­zens, the default nar­ra­tive is that the police need more train­ing. Reflexively, this for­mer Jamaican cop says those hood­lums do not need more train­ing because they do [not] com­mit the same crimes against priv­i­leged white men and women.
This writer con­tin­ues to make the point that the aggres­sion that those police offi­cers live out in the Black com­mu­ni­ty has been bred in them from inside their dirty homes where igno­rant par­ents, unable to jus­ti­fy their fail­ures, use race to jus­ti­fy not mak­ing it in America despite their white skin and its atten­dant privileges.
They are taught aggres­sion in the police acad­e­mies; the Black com­mu­ni­ty is their ene­my; it is a com­mu­ni­ty of worth­less, no-good crim­i­nals who deserve no respect; these tropes are rein­forced in their depart­ments head­ed by degen­er­ates like State Police Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue.
It is lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble to have clean water any­where if the head of the stream is pol­lut­ed with the kind of poi­son spewed from degen­er­ates like the one pic­tured above.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, a free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.