Raids: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

To think that your Uber Eats or Amazon driver faces more repercussions for getting an address wrong than an entire goddamn police force in a raid that results in death.

So you're telling me they can get a warrant to break into someone's house, go to a completely different house they don't have a warrant for, intentionally cause property damage and injure or kill someone, then walk away without facing repercussions or even reimbursing the victim for damages?

Police: Traumatizes woman irreparably

Also police: “Damn why you gotta be so angry, you’re starting to hurt my feelings”

That family where the baby got grenaded - the mother begging for a hold of her injured son being told literally to sit down and shut up is beyond disgusting

I will say this again. If a delivery driver can lose their job for going to the wrong house, the police raiders should too.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. "- Admiral Adama

My home was raided at 4:10am while my 4 year old daughter and I were asleep in my bed. It happened so fast I had no time to react except to cover my daughter with my body. They destroyed my front door and my entire living room wall, and took no responsibility in fixing it. My daughter reached for her bathrobe and one of the officers pulled his gun out. It was so incredibly traumatizing. Additionally, the police didn't have the search warrant in their possession until AFTER the raid was over... AND to boot, the person who they were looking for lived next door.

I live in Germany, my dad was a police officer. He had to write an explanation where and why he used his Weapons for every missing bullet. And he never brought it Home, because you need two saves. One for the Waepon and one for the bullets. German Police is far from perfect but at least its not like this.

Domino's recently delivered my pizza order to the wrong house and brought me the other house's order. To fix it, they refunded the purchase, let me keep the wrong order, and sent me the correct order for free. I think SWAT teams should adopt this radical new Domino's Pizza system of "let's make things right since we got the wrong address."

"When you are handcuffed naked in your own home because the police screwed up a search warrant, shouting should be in your fucking Miranda rights". Fucking classic.

I’m 71 years old. The conversation in this piece also took place when I was in my 20s. Very little has changed other than it is sometimes possible to criminally charge and convict police officers. Underline sometimes. Our obsession with addiction and our firm belief it is criminal rather than an illness is a part of the overall problem. We are an extraordinarily judgmental society which impacts every aspect of every social problem, including addiction. It justifies the worst kind of behavior from people in positions of authority, behavior we would nit justify in anyone else.

It takes me more than 20 seconds to answer the door if I knew you were coming yesterday and you show up at exactly the scheduled time!

Huge respect for John Oliver. I honestly don’t know how someone can keep their sanity while investing so much time into bringing to light the most depressing and aggravating issues in modern society.

The thing that infuriated me the most in this clip was the fact that people aren't compensated for damages caused to their property even when police raids the wrong house. That's the main reason why way too many raids happen each year. If they had to pay for the damages they cause when they wrongfully target someon's home, they'd think twice before bursting into a house just because one of them smelled marijuana in the air.

“Damn bro I can’t believe I threw a grenade in a baby’s crib” - an actual police officer lmao

The worst part about the whole "raided a family's home because they smelled marijuana" thing, is that there's a legitimately high chance that what the detective was smelling was a skunk. The two smells are so similar, I know pot smokers who've mixed them up.

Cops: literally bust down a woman’s door at 3am, enter her home pointing guns, drag the woman out of bed naked and handcuff her.
Cop: "well you don't have to shout...."

My weekly dose of American shame

"If only the Wolf had possessed military-grade equipment", you say as you tuck your children in at night
lmao

I can't believe they don't even pay for repairing the door of the house mistakenly raided. Do the victims have to sue the sheriff/police first?