7/7/2013, 3:51 pm
(Prog-ver 1.0) A teabagger family is suing the city of Henderson, Nevada for violating their Third Amendment rights — the constitutional prohibition against quartering soldiers in a private home during peacetime without the owner's consent.
The Mitchell family says Henderson police arrested them for refusing to let officers use their homes for a “tactical advantage” in a domestic violence investigation into a neighbor. The nature of the domestic violence charges were not disclosed, but knowledgeable neighbors told this reporter of hearing daily crashing sounds, small explosions, possible gun fire, and blood curdling screams in the early morning hours. “The possibility of human or civil rights offenses taking place in this house required us to take immediate action.” one police officer disclosed. “If the screams were coming from someone of the LGYBTQI community it's our duty to put a stop to it immediately!”
A thoughtful police officer had contacted Anthony Mitchell, the son, on July 10, 2011, with a request to use his house as a lookout while investigating the alleged offenses of his neighbor. When Mitchell told police that he did not wish to be involved, the complaint states, police decided they needed to stop the cruelty next door and were therefore required as a matter of human decency to use Anthony's residence anyway.
First, officers “smashed open” Mitchell's door with a “metal ram” after he did not immediately open it himself. He then “curled on the floor of his living room, with his hands over his face,” as the police shot him and his dog several times with a semi-automatic pepper-ball gun of unspecified caliber.
Obviously, Mitchell was arrested for “obstructing a police officer.” But the ordeal didn't end there. Mitchell's parents, Michael and Linda, were also neighbors to the home where police officers suspected domestic violence, and the police wanted to use their home as well. The elder Mitchell was politely asked to stop by the police station and provide access to his home. At the station, he became belligerent, refusing to turn over the keys to his house. The police had no alternative but to arrest him as well.
The elder Mitchell's wife was not arrested, even though she refused to allow police to enter her home. She was peacefully escorted to a patrol car while other officers entered the house and began the required surveillance of the horrific scene next door. The family claims that when she was allowed to return, “the cabinets and closet doors throughout the house had been left open and their contents moved about… Even the refrigerator door had been left ajar, and mustard and mayonnaise had been left on their kitchen floor.” Over a month's pressing of high quality beet juice was left to spoil un-refrigerated.
The case is under review by Department of Justice attorneys, NSA, and the Department of Homeland Security. President Barack Obama has personally called and thanked the Henderson Nevada police for a job well done.
