Detroit Cops Posing As Drug Dealers Brawl With Other Cops Posing As Customers

[hand2handking]

Detroit Cops Posing As Drug Dealers Brawl With Colleagues Posing As Customers
Maybe this is how the war on drugs should be fought from now on.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/13/detroit-cops-posing-as-drug-dealers-braw

Last week in Detroit, undercover cops posing as drug dealers got into a public brawl with undercover cops posing as drug buyers. WJBK, the local Fox station,calls the fight, which involved drawn guns, flying fists, and at least two dozen officers, "a case of the good guys going after the good guys." The description is debatable.

The fake drug dealers, who were from the city's 12th Precinct, planned to arrest anyone who approached them and seize their vehicles—actions that would rightly be recognized as assault, kidnapping, and theft but for the warped moral logic of the war on drugs. The fake drug buyers, who were from the 11th Precinct, planned to arrest people for agreeing to the consensual exchange of merchandise for money. They ordered the other cops to the ground, at which point the two officers from the 12th Precinct must have realized they had mistaken colleagues for criminals and that their colleagues had made the same mistake. Yet they all got into a fight anyway.

After the initial confrontation, WJBK reports, "the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up" and started to raid the "drug house." The homeowner "stood and watched" as "guns were drawn and punches were thrown." At least one officer was taken to the hospital.

The Daily Mail reports that the incident was recorded by body cameras. WJBK says "each officer involved is now under investigation" as "the department tries to determine what went wrong."

What went wrong, aside from the obvious lack of coordination and professionalism, is that the government decided to violently insert itself into peaceful transactions between consenting adults, which led police officers to pose as such so they could lock people in cages for actions that violate no one's rights. In this case, each side to the transaction wanted to lock up the other side, and each side understandably resented the other's intention. But at least the collateral damage was kept to a minimum. Maybe this is how the war on drugs should be waged from now on.

thoughts?

 

[ahat]

Clowns

 

[3stheluckynumbe]

Hilarious.

 

[definition of dopeness]

 

[MetalMario]

"a case of the good guys going after the good guys."

FOH.

 

[AEA18]

So deep undercover that you don't know that a fellow officer is also deep undercover?

Surprised they didn't shoot first and ask questions later.

 

[servechilled81]

lol idiots

 

[alchemist iq]

 

[nawghtyhare]

u know
I don’t even know what to say
Like this story is just ****ing crazy
Dumb **** man just dumb

 

[Master Zik]

Threadworthy

Sounds like a comedy skit Chappelle didnt make.

Hope they make a movie out if this.

 

[big panda]

America is starting to feel like an ongoing onion article that just won't end with the amount of tom foolery

 

[Mark Antony]

 

[All Ready]

cops and robbers

 

[ahat]

A+ execution

 

[SIETE TRES LA]

 

[second2nonee]

sounds like a movie plot parody that would fetch 22% on Rotten Tomatoes or something.

 

[Sir San Diego]

sounds like a movie plot parody that would fetch 22% on Rotten Tomatoes or something.

It's sounds like The Departed 2: Detroit Heat, but handed off to a ****ty director.

 

[Bert.]

sounds like a movie plot parody that would fetch 22% on Rotten Tomatoes or something.

Sounds like a Kevin Hart type movie IMO

 

[frshstunna]

This def could be a movie...the ineptitude of all the cops involved

Movie tagline something like “ whose the bad guy when everybody is good?”

 

[northoaklandfc]

Forget the racism, corruption, and vile **** they do, this is what happens when an entire industry overwhelmingly attracts low IQ, intellectual lowest common denominator type men and women.

You ever met a bright cop?

 

[rolaholic]

A+

 

[SIETE TRES LA]

Wait....

The cooperating home owner's identity has been compromised by this incident. As far as I know the owner has a green light on his head. What is the protocol when this happens? Does the PD have to relocate the owner into a new house for free? I would never cooperate with those boys but this situation makes me wonder what happens to the owner

 

[hand2handking]

Body cam footage of fight between 2 groups of Detroit police officers in drug raid is leaked

http://www.ajc.com/news/national/bo...rs-drug-raid-released/gQNkAxvMnjkHd7AMLSWkxJ/

A newly released video showed the moment a significant breakdown in communication led to a fight between two sets of undercover Detroit police officers.

The situation began when special operations officers from the 12th Precinct were pretending to be drug dealers in what is known as a “push off.” The “dealers” waited to be approached by potential buyers, where they would then drop their cover, arrest the would-be buyer, and seize their vehicle. They were met instead by officers in the 11th Precinct, who were executing a search warrant on a suspected drug house in Andover, which borders the two precincts on 7 Mile Road.

A brawl between the two groups ensued after the 11th Precinct officers pulled guns on the 12th Precinct officers and ordered them to the ground. The situation only became worse inside of the house that was being raided. Confusion led to arguing, shoving, punches being thrown and someone being placed in a headlock.

It was said that the owner of the suspected drug house looked on as the fight continued.

A body camera on one of the officers present captured the fight. The footage was obtained by WXYZ:



The footage is a part of a larger investigation, which is currently underway.

Two officers were treated at the hospital for their injuries, one for a contusion to his eye socket, another for a split lip. Several of involved were placed on restricted duty. At least one supervisor was removed from the special operations team.

Over two dozens officers were present that evening.

“This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen in this department since I was appointed chief,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said in a press conference. “This is something that should not have happened.”

“A member of our community who witnessed this behavior that we’re calling a lack of maturity, a lack of leadership, said they appeared to be like Keystone Cops. And I couldn’t agree more,” the police chief said, referencing a fictional group of incompetent officers that showed up in silent films.

“You’ve gotta have to have more communication, I guess,” one resident said following the incident.

This is not the first time mistaken identities between two undercover Detroit officers has led to disaster.

In February 1986, Officer Mark Radden and his partner, Officer Jack Buffa, responded to reports of shooting at the same house. The officers, both in plainclothes, exchanged fire unknowingly with each other. The firefight ended in the fatal wounding of both men. Since this incident, Detroit precincts have put certain policies in place to avoid the situation from happening ever again.

 

[northoaklandfc]

Dumb *** clowns.

Same thing happened to the same department a decade back except the pigs actually killed each other?

 

[servechilled81]

I thought both parties were undercover from the original story but I see the marked gear in the video
makes this even dumber