{"id":395481,"date":"2019-02-07T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-knock-raid-is-just-another-term-for-violent-home-invasion\/"},"modified":"2019-02-07T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T18:50:17","slug":"no-knock-raid-is-just-another-term-for-violent-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-knock-raid-is-just-another-term-for-violent-home-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo-Knock Raid\u201d is Just Another Term for \u201cViolent Home Invasion\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>On January 28, home invaders murdered 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas and 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle of Houston, Texas. Nicholas and Tuttle wounded five of the (numerous) armed burglars before being slain.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not how the news accounts put it, of course.\u00a0 Typical headline (from the Houston Chronicle): \u201c4 HPD officers shot in southeast Houston narcotics operation, a fifth injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of claims relating to the fateful \u201cno-knock raid\u201d remain in dispute, not least whether or not Nicholas and Tuttle were, as the search warrant leading to the raid alleged, selling heroin from their home (their neighbors characterized them as quiet people who didn\u2019t have lots of company, and scoffed at the notion that they might be drug dealers).<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside those disputes, let\u2019s give the benefit of doubt to Houston police chief Art Acevedo on two things.<\/p>\n<p>Acevedo says that his officers \u201cannounced themselves as Houston police officers while simultaneously breaching the front door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Acevedo admits that immediately upon breaching the front door, one of the officers shot and killed the residents\u2019 dog.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself this: If armed men break down your front door and shoot your dog, are you going to notice (if you can even hear) the invaders saying \u201cpolice, police?\u201d Are you going to just automatically believe the claim even if you do hear and notice it? Or are you going to act to defend yourself?<\/p>\n<p>It was only after the officers\u2019 violent entry and after one officer&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/02\/07\/no-knock-raid-is-just-another-term-for-violent-home-invasion\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, home invaders murdered 58-year-old Rhogena Nicholas and 59-year-old Dennis Tuttle of Houston, Texas. Nicholas and Tuttle wounded five of the (numerous) armed burglars before being slain. That\u2019s not how the news accounts put it, of course.\u00a0 Typical headline (from the Houston Chronicle): \u201c4 HPD officers shot in southeast Houston narcotics operation, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}