Sorry About That: FBI Chainsaws Wrong Door in Botched Drug Raid

By "Radical" Russ Belville

(CBS) FITCHBURG, Mass. – The FBI accidentally raided the wrong apartment last Thursday, cutting through the apartment door of a central Massachusetts woman and her three-year-old daughter with a chainsaw, in a botched effort to seize guns and drugs.

No. When you send paramilitary urban assault troops into an apartment building to initiate violence with guns and chainsaws and someone innocent is victimized, that is not called a “botched effort,” that is called “collateral damage”.

Within moments, the chainsaw had cut through most of her door, and someone on the FBI’s arrest team kicked the rest of it in.

“That’s when I heard the clicking of a gun and I heard ‘FBI, get down!’, so I laid right on down.

And they said get your dog, so I got her and at the same time I am laying in her urine because she did pee on herself at the same time.”

[The woman] says the agents told her not to move, so, fearing she’d be shot if she did, she stayed put on the floor while her daughter screamed for her in the other room.

This woman is lucky her dog wasn’t shot.  Can you imagine laying in dog piss with an automatic weapon to your head while your toddler screams in terror at the black masked armored soldiers invading through your chainsawed front door?

Mistakes are inevitable in police work and when that work is an armed raid of a civilian home, mistakes cost the lives of cops, citizens, and pets.  This is why this tactic must be an absolute last resort.  We cannot accept this mayhem in the name of stopping people from doing drugs when we know this prohibition never stops people from doing drugs and creates most of the violence people attribute to drugs.