In a police state, the police don't need no stinkin' search warrant.
Strip club patrons caught up in raid on New Haven's St. John Street
NEW HAVEN — For a moment, employees at a St. John Street cabaret said, they thought they were being robbed when masked gunmen with assault rifles stormed in Monday night.
It quickly became clear, however — as bartenders, patrons and exotic dancers were ordered to the floor and handcuffed — that they were part of some type of raid.
"Masked gunmen with assault rifles" ... It's no wonder the victims thought they were being robbed, heck, I'd have assumed the gunmen were Islamic terrorists!
Hey, if it looks like a terrorist and acts like a terrorist ...
New Haven police Lt. Jeff Hoffman, who heads the narcotics squad, stressed the warrant wasn’t specifically for Crazy Horse Cabaret, the former Stage Door Johnny’s, at 85 St. John St., but rather for the 15,000-square-foot building, an old clock factory that takes up an entire block on Hamilton Street.
Nothing like taking advantage of a great opportunity to harass and abuse law-abiding citizens, uh? Say it with me now, FREEDOM!
“These guys are no joke,” said one eyewitness who was at the raid and like other patrons, staff and “handcuffed, naked strippers,” was prone on the floor.
“Battering rams, bulletproof shields, assault rifles. They had 30 to 35 people on the floor in cuffs and this whole building was locked down in a matter of three or four minutes,” the man said, not wanting to provide his name.
After the building was secured, the tense tone lifted a bit, the witness said, but he still was detained for about two hours. People were removed from the floor, checked for warrants and unhandcuffed before being moved to another room, he said.
He didn’t stick around after police let him go.
“They were starting to tear apart the place when I was leaving.”
So, "local policemen" dress like terrorists, abuse their captives, and tear random businesses apart ... It's just all in a days work here in Police State USA.
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