hipsterlibertarian: Fair warning: This story is sickening. The man pictured above is Chad Chadwick o

hipsterlibertarian:Fair warning: This story is sickening.The man pictured above is Chad Chadwick of Fort Bend, Texas. He had no criminal record as of September 27, 2011, when, feeling distraught, he had a little too much to drink and fell asleep in his bathtub. Maybe not the greatest decision (my neck hurts just thinking about it) but certainly he was not breaking any laws.Unfortunately for Chadwick, a friend was concerned about him and—rather than just checking up on him in person as would be the normal thing for friends to do—he called the police.That call resulted in a full SWAT team heading to Chadwick’s apartment. Seriously, look at this photo from that night:That cop is pretty much ready to go into battle, but he’s on a call to do…what? Make sure a guy is feeling ok and not self-harming? This is absurd.So the police storm Chadwick’s apartment where he’s sleeping in the bathtub. I’ll let his narrative take over from here:“They told a judge I had hostages. They lied to a judge and told him I had hostages in my apartment and they needed to enter,” said Chadwick.Chadwick did own a single shotgun, but had threatened no one, not even himself. Chadwick’s firearm possession apparently prompted SWAT to kick in his door, launch a stun grenade into the bathroom and storm in, according to Chadwick, without announcing their identity.“While I had my hands up naked in the shower they shot me with a 40 millimeter non-lethal round,” said Chadwick.A second stun grenade soon followed.“I turned away, the explosion went off, I opened my eyes the lights are out and here comes a shield with four or five guys behind it. They pinned me against the wall and proceeded to beat the crap out of me,” said Chadwick.That’s when officers shot the unarmed Chadwick in the back of the head with a Taser at point blank range. ”They claimed I drew down with a shampoo bottle and a body wash bottle,” said Chadwick. And it wasn’t over.“They grabbed me by my the one hand that was out of the shower and grabbed me by my testicles, slammed me on my face on the floor and proceeded to beat me more,” said Chadwick.Chadwick, who hadn’t broken a single law when SWAT burst through his door, was taken to the Ft. Bend County Jail with a fractured nose, bruised ribs and what’s proven to be permanent hearing loss.So this SWAT team completely fabricates a story to a judge to get a warrant to enter Chadwick’s house, finds him asleep and unarmed, brutally attacks him, deafens him permanently, and then what? Well, then they arrest him, charge him with six crimes—including felonies—and throw him into solitary for two days.Needless to say, calling the police did not make Chad Chadwick less distraught.But this story has a better ending than most tales of police brutality. Over the course of the last three years, Chadwick succeeded in getting all felony and misdemeanor charges against himself dropped. He was able to keep his job and build his relationship with his daughter.Yet the officers on the SWAT team have yet to face any consequences for their actions, so Chadwick is still working to hold them accountable for their abuse. “They came in did what they did, figured out that they messed up and now they are doing everything they can to cover it up,” he says. “They treated a normal American citizen like an animal. It’s not right.”Clearly only police and military should have guns. -- source link

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