Glenn Beck's The Blaze ran a disturbing story about a man in Stockton, CA whose door was kicked down by a SWAT team - because his estranged wife, who was not present, was delinquent on her student loan!
Kenneth Wright was home with his three children early Tuesday morning. He hadn’t even gotten dressed for the day yet, and was still in his boxers. That’s when he looked outside and got a surprise.
“I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers,” Wright told News10. Then, the SWAT team busted down his door, allegedly grabbed him by the neck and put him in a police car for six hours, and even roused his children (ages 3,7, and 11) out of bed.
But there’s just one problem. The police weren’t after Wright. They were after his estranged wife. Not surprisingly, they didn’t find her:
To add insult to injury, officers put a large, clunky board over the hole they created in the door and said it was fixed.
“The hole is the least of my worries,” Wright said....
UPDATE: American Thinker has issued a few corrections and modifications to this story, which does not change the overarching theme of the original article, that the Dept. of Education overreacted to a non-threatening situation.
The story was a sensation on Wednesday morning. A Department of Education SWAT team broke down the door to a house owned by a man whose wife was delinquent on her student loans, according to original reports. The man was handcuffed and, along with his children, put in a cop car for 6 hours.
It turns out that some of this story was misreported. It wasn't a SWAT team but a special branch of the DOE who executes search warrants. And it wasn't for a student loan, but the warrant was in connection with a criminal investigation.
But before you breathe a sigh of relief, it should be rightly asked: What in God's name is DOE doing with a paramilitary unit to serve warrants?...
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