Thread: SWAT officers invade home, take 11-year-old at gunpoint

Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the , on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.

The boy's parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves. Full Article here.........

You will not home school or take care of your children in this country damn it, now sit down shut up and take it!

Sounds like some lawyer is going to get rich off of the resultant law suits.

hey look, another biased, one sided "article" bashing law enforcement officials doing their job.

gee, i wonder if the dad had a cat-scan machine in his mobile home, since thats what they use to determine concussions.

Originally Posted by nickcuse

hey look, another biased, one sided "article" bashing law enforcement officials doing their job.

gee, i wonder if the dad had a cat-scan machine in his mobile home, since thats what they use to determine concussions.

Or maybe the hospital did, I find it disturbing that anyone would condone the SWAT Teams determining what is best for the family.

Gee the kid fell, the parents look ant their child, made a determination that little Jonny is fine, hurray call SWAT!

Originally Posted by michaelr

Or maybe the hospital did, I find it disturbing that anyone would condone the SWAT Teams determining what is best for the family.

Gee the kid fell, the parents look ant their child, made a determination that little Jonny is fine, hurray call SWAT!

they never took the kid to the hospital, not until after the swat team took him.

and he didn't "fall", he slipped as he was trying to grab the door handle of a moving car, and hit his HEAD on the ground, possibly pavement.

ever watch football? do you know how little of an impact it takes to get a concussion?

but yes, how dare the state look out for the well being of its citizens.

On the flip side, if social services had not acted, it might have easily turned into another one of these:

The review, by the Children's Administration, which is part of the Department of Social and Health Services, said social workers missed a pattern of abuse and neglect, didn't follow policy to make sure Shayne Abegg, now 5, was safe, and failed to hold his parents more accountable.

Social workers said to have missed pattern of abuse of boy
Investigators: State review shows DSHS failed child time and again | Top Stories | KING5.com | News for Seattle, Washington

The Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency failed to protect a 2-year-old boy from abuse by his mother and her live-in boyfriend, a lawsuit by the boy's father and grandmother contends.
Visalia Times-Delta | Tulare Advance Register

Social work agencies have to walk a VERY fine line. If they act too hastily, things like this happen. If they go a little to slow, kids wind up dying. Sounds to me like they erred on the side of caution, considering the family has a history.

Factor in that people in such agencies make a pitiful salary that doesn't allow much in the way of computer records or training, and it's a marvel they accomplish as much as they do.

Originally Posted by nickcuse

they never took the kid to the hospital, not until after the swat team took him.

and he didn't "fall", he slipped as he was trying to grab the door handle of a moving car, and hit his HEAD on the ground, possibly pavement.

ever watch football? do you know how little of an impact it takes to get a concussion?

but yes, how dare the state look out for the well being of its citizens.

I have raised 5 children, what the parents did was fine in my books. Kids fall, they fall while ridding bikes or skate boards. Parents will determine if the child is hurt enough to warrant a trip to the hospital, it is obvious this child did not require hospitalization, therefor the parents did nothing wrong. SWAT determined that they knew best, by going in at gunpoint they made a non situation a dangerous situation.

Bottom line, the parents did nothing wrong, SWAT was over kill, the government should not make decisions that are better left to the family.

Fearing the hospital's bills, the family refused to allow that.

Putting money before your kids, the true sign of great parents.

But all kidding aside, they should have left the family alone. If the dad was wrong, god forbid that we allow natural selection to occur.

Originally Posted by TenGig

Putting money before your kids, the true sign of great parents.

But all kidding aside, they should have left the family alone. If the dad was wrong, god forbid that we allow natural selection to occur.

It is indeed bad when hospital cost are a factor when determining such things but that is life. My youngest is 21, I have raised children over half my life, it has always been a factor.

Originally Posted by michaelr

I have raised 5 children, what the parents did was fine in my books. Kids fall, they fall while ridding bikes or skate boards. Parents will determine if the child is hurt enough to warrant a trip to the hospital, it is obvious this child did not require hospitalization, therefor the parents did nothing wrong. SWAT determined that they knew best, by going in at gunpoint they made a non situation a dangerous situation.

Bottom line, the parents did nothing wrong, SWAT was over kill, the government should not make decisions that are better left to the family.

so you know better than trained paramedics? really? are YOU a paramedic? do YOU own a cat-scan machine in YOUR house?

SWAT didn't do anything but follow orders, why are you blaming them?

oh and surprise surprise, guess what i found on this story in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent? nothing. nada. zip.

smells like another bogus story to me. in fact, i would bet there wasn't SWAT involved at all. why would they use SWAT for such a task, and not regular cops?