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From: LindyBill	4/10/2007 3:57:51 AM
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No end to these "Mayberry" Swat Teams. This one to arrest someone for a retail theft. SWAT Kills Ohio Man RODNEY BALKO In Paramilitary Police Raids bucyrustelegraphforum.com A SWAT team in Mansfield, Ohio executed a forced-entry raid on the home of a man suspected in a retail theft ring, as well as possessing illegal firearms and prescription drugs. As they ran up the yard to the house, 49-year-old Gilbert Rush spotted a swarm of heavily armed men dressed in black running up to his home in the middle of the night. He fired a shotgun out his kitchen window. The SWAT team stormed Rush's house and shot him twice in the chest, killing him. Family and friends have written letters to the editor of the local paper saying Rush hadn't a violent bone in his body, and that had he known the invaders were police, he wouldn't have fired at them. All of this in itself would be yet another anecdote against the use of these raids for nonviolent crimes (the retail thefts were the driving force behind the investigation). Ah, but it gets worse. Rush himself wasn't even a suspect. The police were after members of his family. Rush had no criminal record, and wasn't suspected of any crime. He heard and saw men with guns breaking into his home. So he defended his home. And now he's dead. I don't know if Mr. Rush was complicit in any retail theft conspiracy or not. I do know that if he was, he shouldn't have received a death sentence. That's what he got.

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