{"id":15294,"date":"2014-08-21T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T11:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T12:48:49","slug":"we-are-above-the-law-declares-county-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15294","title":{"rendered":"We are above the law declares county attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habersham County, Georgia, U.S., the jurisdiction that allowed intentionally or through negligence a SWAT team to break into a home with violent force in the middle of the night and throw a stun grenade into a baby\u2019s face sending him to a hospital for weeks where he was in life support, has ruled that it would be <a href=\" http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/lawyer-county-refuses-pay-medical-bills-toddler-hu\/ng3s9\/\">illegal <\/a>for the county to pay the baby\u2019s medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>The negligence of the police, and thereby the county, is a triple dose. It was the wrong house. A SWAT team was unnecessary in order to exercise a search warrant for a drug suspect. There was no excuse for throwing a stun grenade into a baby\u2019s crib.<\/p>\n<p>But the county attorney has ruled that the county is not liable for these massive incidences of unbridled negligence.<\/p>\n<p>However, the unjustifiable SWAT team assault on the family in the home was legal.<\/p>\n<p>As the saying goes, \u201ca fish rots from the head.\u201d The rot in government accountability that began in Washington has now reached the local level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habersham County, Georgia, U.S., the jurisdiction that allowed intentionally or through negligence a SWAT team to break into a home with violent force in the middle of the night and throw a stun grenade into a baby\u2019s face sending him to a hospital for weeks where he was in life support, has ruled that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We are above the law declares county attorney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[9773,9774,9775,9772,727],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-government-accountability","tag-negligence","tag-police-brutality","tag-swat-team","tag-washington"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15316,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions\/15316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}