From World Net Daily:
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 hospital, 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.
Someone, apparently the unidentified paramedic, called police, the sheriff’s office and social services, eventually providing Leoniak with a report that generated the magistrate’s court order to the sheriff’s office for the SWAT team assault on the family’s home in a mobile home development outside of Glenwood Springs
This is pretty outrageous. How can a sheriff justify this abuse of power and unnecessary use of force? The government has no right to bust into a person’s house and take a kid to the hospital if the parents are against it.
Now, who is going to pay the bill? It had better come out of the sheriff’s budget, but I get the feeling it is going to go to the parents.
