SWAT-ing flies.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Raids by SWAT teams - Brief article

dust a day after I wrote the previous item, the latest issue of my hometown paper, the Charleston Gazette, arrived in the mail. It described how a West Virginia SWAT team had killed a disabled man named Richard Kohler, whose only alleged crime was "giving away pills prescribed to him in exchange for stolen items." The police said that when they pried open his door at 6:05 in the morning, he aimed a rifle at them. The only problem with this explanation is that the outside of the door was riddled with bullet holes. The police did not even have an arrest warrant for Kohler. All they had was a search warrant. Kohler's daughter described him as a nonviolent man with...