Mike Beckles
5 min readMay 23, 2022

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Despite Repeated Grave Errors Judges Continue To Sign Off On No-knock Warrants Putting Vulnerable People At The Mercy Of Incompetent & Corrupt Police…

It happens daily, repeatedly, and usually, the backstory is the same. Oftentimes it ends with a Black person dead, a family shattered, and no one held accountable.
Police continue to barge into the homes of Black people, usually on the flimsiest of evidence of wrongdoing. Raids are predicated on the information of someone they have over a barrel.
Despite the dangers inherent in using the information of a single informant to break into someone’s home, police continue to do so in black neighborhoods with alarming frequency while looking for drugs.
Set aside the fact that, in general, even if African-Americans do have drugs in their homes, they most assuredly are the lowest on the totem pole. Poor Black people lack the means to import drugs into America; the dirty little secret in this sordid affair is that the importers of these contraband face no scrutiny in their lily-white suburban communities, let alone fear police raids.
Usually, criminals facing pressure from police to provide information on other lawbreakers are inclined to give false information about people they do not like.
Using information derived from pressuring career criminals is a dangerous game that police engage in that endangers innocent Black American lives.

Police dressed up as soldiers act out warrior fantasies they see in video games, but the result for their victims is no laughing matter. Dead relatives, traumatized children, bullied and abused by white police officers in what ought to be the sacred sanctum of their homes.
Usually, they barge into the wrong homes, traumatizing children with their Rambo persona, leaving a trail of destruction to personal property. The bottom line is that when those white cops operate in Black communities, they operate as overseers. To them, everyone in the community is beneath them; everyone is a criminal. They do not serve the communities; they go out to brutalize and subjugate. This is what Black Americans are subjected to.
Despite a long-running history of these nightmare scenarios occurring with devastating consequences, judges continue to sign off on no-knock warrants costing innocent lives and countless millions in property damage as the state agents operate with total impunity when they enter the homes of Black families.

They make sure they cause as much property damage as possible, and there are no consequences for their actions.
They snuffed out the lives of Breonna Taylor using a no-knock warrant; one would have thought that the practice would have ended after they wrongly entered her home and murdered her, but her Black life is of no consequence to them, so the practice continues on steroids.
Police are mere tools of Government; if the politicians wanted those practices ended, they would end immediately. The unmitigated truth is that those who wield political power have no interest in defanging the warrior cop phenomenon that has overtaken America. That goes for Republicans and Democrats. In Chicago, police routinely use no-knock warrants to look for drugs in Black people’s homes. The results are usually the same, it was the wrong house, and the information came from a single informant.
Nevertheless, the police go in guns drawn, yelling and screaming at small children and subjecting them to hours of humiliation even when they are told they are in the wrong homes.

This is state-sponsored tyranny made worse by police departments loaded with white supremacists operating under the color of law.
A Flint family is suing the Michigan State Police for what they call acts of discrimination and violations of their civil rights. Just over a year ago, Michigan State Troopers knocked down their door to look for evidence in a drive-by shooting. However, nobody in the family was actually involved. Lawyers for the family say this incident violated one of Michigan’s non-discrimination laws, as well as the family’s constitutional protection. They’re seeking damages for the family’s emotional trauma from the event. “I am just so grateful that this day didn’t turn out like so many other days for people who look like us. So many people who didn’t get the opportunity to stand up in front of you and tell you how wrongly they were treated because they were killed by the people who were supposed to protect them,” said Aaron Dunigan, whose mother and sister were the subjects of an alleged no-knock raid last April. But he said the trauma is still with them.
On April 21, 2021, Michelle Colston was getting her children ready for bed with the help of her mother, Renee Dunigan, when they said Michigan State Troopers used a battering ram to enter their apartment unannounced.
People reacted to a social media post by Michigan State Police Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue in which she shared a message that disparaged NFL players who kneel during the national anthem, calling them “a bunch of rich, entitled, arrogant, ungrateful, anti-American degenerates.” Etue issued an apology for the post. A spokeswoman for then-Republican Gov. Rick Snyder said Etue would not be asked to resign.

They say the troopers made them keep quiet as they investigated the home, with no access to their phones to let their family know they were okay. Lawyers for the Dunigan/Colston family allege that troopers’ biases led them to rush the investigation. “What happened was they saw a car in the driveway and jumped to a conclusion that it belonged to one family… And what this really was was sloppy police work. It would not have occurred in a white community. It’s police work that says they’re all the same, they’re all guilty,” said Attorney Will Goodman. They said this alleged profiling violated Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, and that the Troopers’ behavior in the home violated the family’s 4th and 14th Amendment rights. They’re seeking damages to help cover mental healthcare and therapy costs as they work to regain their sense of security. “There are small children in this family, who- before this happened- trusted the police. They were told to respect the police. Now, when they see the police, they ask their mom and grandma, and uncle ”are they going to kill us?’ ” said, Attorney Julie Hurwitz. A spokesperson for Michigan State Police had no comment but in a statement last year, they said they used a cruiser’s P.A. system to notify the family from outside. The Duncan/Colston legal team said that claim is false.

Whenever there is an outcry about the police attack on the rights and dignity of Black citizens, the default narrative is that the police need more training. Reflexively, this former Jamaican cop says those hoodlums do not need more training because they do [not] commit the same crimes against privileged white men and women.
This writer continues to make the point that the aggression that those police officers live out in the Black community has been bred in them from inside their dirty homes where ignorant parents, unable to justify their failures, use race to justify not making it in America despite their white skin and its attendant privileges.
They are taught aggression in the police academies; the Black community is their enemy; it is a community of worthless, no-good criminals who deserve no respect; these tropes are reinforced in their departments headed by degenerates like State Police Director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue.
It is literally impossible to have clean water anywhere if the head of the stream is polluted with the kind of poison spewed from degenerates like the head of the Michigan State Police.

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Mike Beckles

Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.