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Chuck Shephard's "News of the Weird" column that features in many alternative weeklies has a bit on the Minneapolis Police Swat team. To quote the entry from the Week of 24 August 2008:
"In a July ceremony, Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan honored SWAT officers for their bravery and professionalism during a December middle-of-the-night raid of a house that supposedly contained a gang's guns. However, it was the wrong house, and the bewildered, frightened resident started shooting back. Said Dolan, "The easy decision would have been to retreat (but the) team did not take the easy way out." The house got riddled with bullets, but no one was hit, and the chief later apologized but still felt that it was "a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the (team's) professionalism." [WCCO-TV (Minneapolis), 7-29-08]"
And none of this is new. Anyone from the Twin Cities who was active in the Honeywell Project protests dating back to the mid-80s will not be surprised by such tactics.
