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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 239 06-28-2012 12:52 PM

SWAT tries to take down Internet meanie; raids grandma instead

An Evansville, Indiana SWAT team recently attempted to execute a search warrant that was issued to make an example out of an anonymous Internet user who made malicious remarks on the Web. Instead, they destroyed the home of an innocent grandmother.

When members of the Midwest town’s SWAT team plotted their raid on the alleged home of the person behind some unpleasant remarks published on an Internet forum, they invited a local television crew to accompany them so that they could catch the whole thing on camera. Instead of arresting the author of the ill-tempered posts, however, the Evansville SWAT ravaged the home of an elderly woman and confiscated her 18-year-old granddaughter’s laptop.

The SWAT team did not have the name of who they were going after. They barely even had an identity. What they did have to work with, though, was the IP address of a person who logged onto the Topix.com Web forums and made discouraging remarks about local law enforcement.

http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/sw...ead/16875/

**Kanigo2** lop guest User ID: 97971 06-28-2012 01:01 PM

Two flashbangs in granny's yarn basket. Wheeeeee!

**akhenaten**

WTF is swat doing involved in the repression of free speech on the internet?

**DanfromtheHills** · (This post was last modified: 06-28-2012 01:06 PM by DanfromtheHills.)

akhenaten Wrote:

WTF is swat doing involved in the repression of free speech on the internet?

"An Evansville, Indiana SWAT team recently attempted to execute a search warrant that was issued to make an example out of an anonymous Internet user who made malicious remarks on the Web. Instead, they destroyed the home of an innocent grandmother.

When members of the Midwest town’s SWAT team plotted their raid on the alleged home of the person behind some unpleasant remarks published on an Internet forum, they invited a local television crew to accompany them so that they could catch the whole thing on camera. Instead of arresting the author of the ill-tempered posts, however, the Evansville SWAT ravaged the home of an elderly woman and confiscated her 18-year-old granddaughter’s laptop.

The SWAT team did not have the name of who they were going after. They barely even had an identity. What they did have to work with, though, was the IP address of a person who logged onto the Topix.com Web forums and made discouraging remarks about local law enforcement."

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 105169 06-28-2012 02:02 PM

I think this story proves the feds are monitoring forums. I don't think a city police department would have the resources to find these postings out of the thousands posted every day unless it was called in as a tip. The original story did not say how they discovered the postings.

**DanfromtheHills**

LoP Guest Wrote:

I think this story proves the feds are monitoring forums. I don't think a city police department would have the resources to find these postings out of the thousands posted every day unless it was called in as a tip. The original story did not say how they discovered the postings.

I agree, they are/have been doing so for a while.

It could have been the feds who tipped off the local police. It's not likely that a local PD has the resources to monitor the entire internet for postings about themselves.

I sure hope it wasn't a local that tipped them off, if so, they got trolled badly.

**RaXz** · **RaXz** Party Pooper User ID: 103918 06-28-2012 02:14 PM **Posts: 7,014**

LoP Guest Wrote:

I think this story proves the feds are monitoring forums. I don't think a city police department would have the resources to find these postings out of the thousands posted every day unless it was called in as a tip. The original story did not say how they discovered the postings.

You can even summon them by using keywords, so if you are in need of some attention, you know what to do. Lmao

**DanfromtheHills**

RaXz Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
I think this story proves the feds are monitoring forums. I don't think a city police department would have the resources to find these postings out of the thousands posted every day unless it was called in as a tip. The original story did not say how they discovered the postings.

You can even summon them by using keywords, so if you are in need of some attention, you know what to do.

I <3 FEMA

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 42015 06-28-2012 02:48 PM

The same thing happened in Minneapolis a few years ago. It cost the city over $1,000,000 for this botched swat raid. The Mpls police are brutal.
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneap...43023.html