Armed officers arrived at a Ripon house to confiscate fireworks. The family calls it "dehumanizing."
The family also said police shot at their dogs with non-lethal bullets during the raid. They add all this terror was unnecessary. This is…
Armed officers arrived at a Ripon house to confiscate fireworks. The family calls it "dehumanizing."
The family also said police shot at their dogs with non-lethal bullets during the raid. They add all this terror was unnecessary. This is another case of government overreach gone wild, and totally unacceptable behavior on the part of police.
Jun 16, 2022 / 10:31 PM PDT
Sheriff defends Ripon home raid searching for illegal fireworks
The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office is taking issue with the way that their raid of a Ripon home on Wednesday as part of a search warrant into illegal fireworks is being framed.
On Friday evening, the agency released a social media message claiming that media reports – at least two Sacramento-area news channels picked up the story based on the account of the family whose home was raided – are leaving out key information about what happened and why the response was conducted the way that it was.
According to the agency, officers had a search warrant for the home that was connected to an ongoing investigation into illegal fireworks. The family – the husband and wife were identified in media reports as Nicole McCurdy and Michael Schirmer – was known for having a large fireworks show at their home for the Fourth of July holiday after the City of Ripon cancelled their annual aerial show.
Officers arrived at the home on Wednesday with guns drawn and behind tactical shields – a precaution, they said, that was “due to knowledge of criminal history and firearms in the home” (but refused to say what if any criminal activity) – and deployed less-than-lethal rounds to subdue the family’s dog that officers claim tried to attack them.
We're calling bullshit on this, because if there was indeed any criminal activity going on, the residents would not have been allowed to own firearms, and no firearms were confiscated.
Sheriff defends Ripon home raid searching for illegal fireworks
Published: Jun 18, 2022, 2:46 AM
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