He was not the person police were looking
for, and thanks to their brutal incompetence, two cops are recovering
from bullet wounds, and a black teenager is dead
On that early morning raid, police were looking for 23-year-old
Wattsel Rembert, who was not staying at that apartment. Rembert is
accused of participating in a shooting at a casino back in November.
Instead of simply arresting Rembert in a normal manner, police chose
to dangerously show up in the middle of the night, bash in doors,
throw flash bang grenades, and put everyone involved in danger.
After the shooting, police held a press conference, during which they
demonized Williams, rattling off all the charges Williams would have
faced for defending himself in his own home against armed intruders
who threw a grenade through his window as he slept.
The idea that a person - who had committed no crime - is supposed
to wake up calmly as windows are breaking and grenades are
exploding in their home is utterly asinine and speaks to the failed and
ineffective nature of no-knock raids.