Media praises police searching numerous homes in New Orleans manhunt
Atlanta - With the capture of two suspects following a Mother’s Day parade shooting, New Orleans has become the second major US city this year – Boston being the first – to endure episodes of large-scale street violence allegedly initiated by brothers, a massive law-enforcement manhunt in response, and the eventual capture of the wanted individuals.
Police identified Akein Scott, a recent graduate from one of the city’s more prestigious high schools, from a surveillance camera tape. Then they got a Crimestoppers tip that focused the investigation: A source told police that Mr. Scott had told him about how he and his brother attacked the crowd – he in full sight of the camera, his brother from a different angle, out of camera shot.
NOPD special-ops officers and members of the US Marshals Felony Warrant Squad searched more than a dozen homes before finding the men.
“Each house we hit, we feel confident when we do it,” NOPD Detective Brian Elsensohn told reporters. “But each house delivers new info as we go through the interview process in hopes of locating them.”
“At this point, law enforcement will do anything, whatever it takes to keep these kinds of guys off the street, It might work. I don’t know, but I hope it works.” said Dee Wood Harper, a criminologist at Loyola University New Orleans.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2013/0517/New-Orleans-parade-shooting-Arrests-show-city-s-reworked-approach-to-policing
Victims of Boston lockdown speak out:
In exclusive interviews with several Boston-area residents in the days following the searches, Infowars.com reveals that the tactics used by police as they searched for a wounded 19-year-old bombing suspect were not nearly as well-received as the mainstream would have you believe.
"On the heels of prestitute Lawrence O'Donnell labeling Ron Paul a 'liar' when he called the manhunt and door-to-door searches in Watertown, MA. a martial law exercise, Infowars reporter Dan 'The Kraken' Bidondi went to interview residents who were forced from their homes," said the website.
One young man told Bidondi that the "situation was dealt with way too chaotically than it should have been."
"I was walking down Hazel Street and, um, a cop pointed his gun at me, and then they called SWAT in and SWAT came and picked me up...and threw me in the back of a car, and dropped me off in the middle of Newton, MA" the young man said - which was essentially "the middle of nowhere."
"Broad daylight," he continued. "They just took off my cuffs and told me to walk." They never read him any Miranda rights, either, the young man told Bidondi.
A woman who spoke with Bidondi said cops showed up at the door of her home and "told me they were going to search" the house. They didn't ask, and they didn't have a warrant.
"They told us we had to leave," she said, adding she didn't complain at the time but said "I couldn't get everything I needed to get. I'm a diabetic and needed medicine, and I had left some stuff here, and they wouldn't let me come back to get it."
Bidondi asked, "Were you scared at all?"
"Yes, I was," she answered.
She said remained at a police station for a while before her son came to pick her up, she said. No one ever formally told her or her family when the lockdown was lifted and when they could return to their home.
"It was about eleven o'clock at night and I was calling the Watertown Police and the FBI and no one told me that we could come back in yet. They kept shuffling it back and forth," she said. Eventually she just made the decision to return to her home.
"One thing I was very, very upset about is that when we were leaving here...all the lights were on in the house, TVs, you know," she said. "They had gone out the back door, down in my basement...I said, 'Let me just close all my doors and lock up,' and they said no, they would do that.
"I came home," she continued, "the back door was open - this is hours now later - back door was open, front door was open, basement door was open, lights were on, TVs were on. No one did anything."
The woman also showed Bidondi bullet holes in two of her cars, apparently from shootouts between police and the terror suspect.
A third resident, an older man, said police gave no prior warnings or put out any announcements that a lockdown was being implemented.
"They just walked in, you know, and they say, 'Get outta here,'" the man said. "I said, 'let me put my shoes on,' you know...they don't want to let me put my shoes on, either."
Watch the entire set of interviews here.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040358_Boston_Marathon_bombing_police_state_martial_law.html
Police tactics have changed, it's no longer a conspiracy theory:
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was originally established to protect American citizens from the federal use of military troops to enforce and execute the laws of the land unless expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. Since then, for over a century, this task has fallen upon local and federal law enforcement. But with the War on Terror taking center stage in the United States for the last decade, elements within the government have been working tirelessly to expand the mission of the US military on the domestic front.
First, they passed the Patriot Act, which gave the government sweeping new powers to categorize any individual as a terrorist, whether they are operating on foreign lands or here at home. In 2011, as America brought in the New Year, they signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which made it possible for American citizens who were categorized as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act to be detained and imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial.
Finally, last week we learned that, as President Obama came under fire for the many scandals rocking his administration, the government was quietly moving to give the Department of Defense unprecedented authority on U.S. soil, effectively nullifying Posse Comitatus.
Eric Blair of Activist Post writes:
First, the senate is debating an expansion of the already broad powers of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) so the U.S. can essentially engage any area in the world in the war on terror, including America. Which brings us to the second development: the Pentagon has recently granted itself police powers on American soil.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Sheehan told Congress yesterday that the AUMF authorized the US military to operate on a worldwide battlefield from Boston to Pakistan. Sheehan emphasized that the Administration is authorized to put boots on the ground wherever the enemy chooses to base themselves, essentially ignoring the declaration of war clause in the US Constitution.
While Americans were distracted with three developing scandals pushed by both wings of the mainstream media, sinister developments were taking place behind closed doors. In essence, the US military has granted itself the power to deploy troops on the streets of America without approval from the President or Congress, and the AUMF, which was originally designed to target the terrorists responsible for 9/11, has been expanded to give the government authority to use military assets on the domestic front without a declaration from Congress.
Senator Angus King went so far as to say that the hearing he was involved in was the most astonishing and disturbing hearing he has ever seen.
Even John McCain, war hawk John McCain, came out and said the government has gone way beyond its authority.
What are they talking about? The AUMF – Authorization to Use Military Force.
This piece of legislation that was put into place way back when we started the war on terror that is now turning from foreign enemies to YOU. Don’t be shocked by that, because you are on the list if you are a freedom minded, free thinker that believes in a Constitutional Republic.
They are changing the wording of this thing so that the military can be used on the streets of this country.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/its-not-a-conspiracy-theory-it-is-happening-right-now_05202013