I am amazed how they send like a swat team in plain cloth with maybe 1 officer in uniform for just 1 snow blower...... I say just 1 officer in uniform could of handle the situation without having shot fired or arresting anyone with simple communication. Plus if the home owner would of seen a police officers in uniform things would of went down differently.
(1) Not everything requires a “no knock” warrant approach. It isn’t like you can flush a snowblower. (2) Why ransack the house? Are they going to hide a snowblower in a drawer?
Wait a minute, so several armed cops are trying to raid a house... just for one snow blower? And after having captured their target, they simply ransacked the house even though they knew the snow blower is in the garage? What am I missing? Why was this couple treated like they are some drug dealers or kidnappers?
@@jengsci8268 I think that was actually a case of a company trying to save face and firing an employee that "has committed a crime" 😒 Super unfortunate but sadly a reality. 😢
I don’t think the judge signed off on this. The judge signed off on a simple search warrant, which should not and does not give the police authority to do what they did, unless they had reason to believe that the woman was going to give birth to the damn snow blower or to fraudulent gift cards. No, this was not on the judge.
Thank you for the update. It's not a great one but at least that something for this foolishness. The detective should have been fired, arrested, and never allowed to be a LEO again.
The fact that they even admit its a stupid warrant; endanger lives over a snow blower; and on top of that you'll end up costing tax payers $$$. You can't teach stupid.
It took cops 13 years to find the Gilgo Beach Killer, but get falsely accused of stealing a snow blower and swat will be at your door virtually instantly
And the snowblower was NOT stolen. Cops took zero investigative steps to ascertain the truth of the accusation. Because cops are lazy AF and wants things made easy for them ALWAYS.
the most pathetic thing is, the snowblower wasn't even stolen... and since they failed to properly announce themselves, the homeowner was in his right to defend himself from intruders
That's exactly where my dislike of cops comes from legitimate concerns they ignore got someone innocent to prey on they are on it in a flash. She has to tell her child their birth story now and the kid will grow up hating cops too likely.
The fact that *the department knew about this for over a year before the video was released to the public* says everything I need to know about this department.
The police officers should be arrested for felony assault, obstruction of justice, false imprisonment, false arrest and attempted murder plus a few other things. Should be sentenced a minimum of ten years in prison and at least $500,000 fine payable to the victims .
@@Jo-yp8wyand it SHOULD have come from the actual officers involved, the judge who signed off on the warrant, etc etc... Instead it comes from tax dollars... How much you want to bet most if not all involved are still working as cops/law enforcement today... Even in another dept. Another state.... If you're raiding a home, NOBODY around the scene should be in plain clothes... Either everybody is in swat/police gear with body armor and clearly marked police, or you stay in the car until the scene is dealt with... This was a disaster all around. It's like they knew it was just a snowblower, yet decided to come with full assault rifles, yet plain clothes detectives are also on scene because THEY felt it clearly was 'routine' - which tells you A LOT about how over militarized and how over funded and over armed these cops all across the country actually are...
@@Jo-yp8wy To be honest, if I had the choice between 5 million paid by tax payers, or 500K paid directly by the cops involved, I would go for the 500K.
A snowblower!? Even if they had stolen the snowblower its a excessive response. You can see one of the cops rush in with a assault rifle and that before the shooting starts. Unreal.
@@DemiGod..stop spreading lies… I actually live in New York City, the only crimes they release people for on no bail are none violent crimes, if violence is involved, depending on the severity you are given a bond, which is a guaranteed right unless you are considered dangerous or a flight risk.
This is insane the police should be ashamed of themselves, no one should ever go through this for a crime that wasn’t even committed. I wish the best for this family and that soon enough they get help from the hell they’ve endured
So the police can break into your home for stolen merchandise? What country do we live in? Even if they had stolen something, what the police did was just malicious. They destroyed their home and their lives.
This made me cry. Unless their search warrant covered this woman’s uterus, or they had reason to believe she was hiding gift cards in her birth canal, the police had no right to do what they did to her. And let’s suppose the husband actually was guilty of gift card fraud worth a few hundred dollars: that justifies sending several armed officers to their home, ransacking and damaging their house when they know exactly where the blower is, and treating his pregnant wife this way? Isn’t judgment and punishment supposed to be handed down by a judge or jury or at least a prosecutor? What in the constitution or other law gives the police the authority to do this to people? I don’t think the judge would sign off on the search warrant if they knew this is what the police would do with it.
Putting money on gift cards isn’t illegal, never has been illegal, how do you think the money gets on the gift cards? I do it all the time, and use them myself so I only spend a certain amount and leave my bank card at home.
It was about suspecting gift card fraud. He bought it with a bunch of gift cards, and the store must have had a problem with taking in more gift cards than they had issued or something like that, leading them to suspect cards being loaded fraudulently. Still: even if that was the case, unless they suspect illegal activity or evidence to be found in the woman’s uterus, they had no justification for how they treated her.
Because the guy went online and bought 20+ different gift cards with his credit card, then he went into a store and bought a snow blower... Why not just buy the snow blower? People pulling scams buy gift cards with the money they stole and then go shopping so it can't be traced. It was a suspicious purchase. That doesn't explain why his wife was punished though. It's not about the snow blower, it's about the pre paid gift cards. If it had been one or two gift cards it likely would not have set off any concerns.
Police need to pay to fix the home and his employer has to hire him back. Why would they dismiss him before they know if he was guilty or not. Innocent before proven guilty.
All over a snow blower. Shoplifting isn't even a huge crime. Its a victimless crime *unless* it's being stolen from a *local small business.* They came in like they were looking for a murderer, terrorized a heavily pregnant woman, then tried to exile them from the country. Wtf??
@@WaryJester Victimless ? How about the law abiding customers that have to pay more to cover the losses followed by the shop owner who goes out of business and the staff that lose their jobs due to losses and then closure? In places like NYC, tons of shops closed due to shoplifting. I assume you are liberal.
@@DemiGod.. progressive ≠ liberal, thanks. And like I said, it's victimless IF ITS NOT A SMALL BUSINESS, who aren't insured like big stores like Walmart. Stealing from Walmart and hurting no one, no victims. Steal from a small business, business is hurt, that's is a crime with a victim. Shoplifting *basic food and hygiene supply* should also be decriminalized.
So, they send the militia to get a snowblower, the warrant was for the snowblower, but you raid and ramshackle the HOUSE? The PREGNANT wife had ZERO to do with this, but is arrested, SHACKLED for the duration of 36 hours, a man having a new baby lost his job for WHAT exactly? All I want to know is did the officers lose their jobs too and how many zeros will be on the check…I truly believe that they saw this man’s NAME and determined he was a threat and they bent everything out of proportion….as always….👎🏽🤡
I pray to god Sara wins the civil lawsuit, they treated her worse than an animal, they treat MURDER criminals with more decency! Even for murder criminals they don’t shackle DURING birth. Sara, Faris, and their baby deserve justice. America show the people u regret it and give them 10 millions, poor guy lost his job, they ruined his house and the couple was completely innocent. I’m disgusted and disappointed.
Man loses his job, almost gets killed, woman goes through unimaginable emotional and physical trauma, then prosecution threat to deport both of them. Long live America, I am sure this has nothing to do with their names and appearance that they were treated this way by the flag bearer nation of peace and justice in the world.
Shameful, abusive behavior by all officers involved. They clearly do not belong in this line of work. This reflects badly on everyone who wears the same uniform. This is why police are losing the publics trust. Want to improve public relations? Get rid of these repeat offender cops who can't seem to remember whether they are there to enforce laws or violate them. They're bankrupting our cities with these endless lawsuits. Ironically, it is the police who are defunding us.
But the child is born a citizen of the USA - how is it possible to deport designated care-givers of a legal citizen? Maybe they tried to prevent the baby from "legal immigration" (no rights, until birth completed)
If the alt Republicans get control, this will be an everyday thing with worse outcomes. (I say "alt Republicans " because there are those of us who still believe in how the Republican party could and used to be. The current alt Republicans are extremists, like ISIS is to Muslims.)
Who told you this nation who meddles with literally every other nations battles and wants to police every other nation is the flag bearer of peace? I'm from this nation but i wonder where you are from.
Sue for punitive damages on state and federal levels. Not to mention illegal. This is how innocent tax and law abiding people die by the hands of police. Like Breonna Taylor? These are exactly why people argue to defund the police.
This cost taxpayers $500,000 but the pigs walked away scott free. The detective who botched the raid got a 3 day suspension. Soldiers doing this would be branded as war criminals but to the police it's "policy". And you still think you live in a free country?
It cost the taxpayers much more than that! They payed the police, they paid lord knows how much for both husband and wife being jailed, as well as court fees.
The embarrassment for the family and the ruination of this most special event. They can NEVER get the chance to have their first child again. Atrocious!!!
You left out the part about how the INS or CBP tried to use this as justification to initiate deportation proceedings against this innocent family. They were forced to fight for their right to even be here despite being fully in compliance with immigration and other laws that they were unjustifiably accused of -committing- violating. This was nothing more than retaliation against the victims of government incompetence and malfeasance by design to give themselves leverage to try to discredit and silence the couple.
I guarantee this is why the husband's charges were dropped. "If we didn't do anything wrong then your husband didn't do anything wrong. Mistakes happen; all can be forgiven."
@@ipromisethatserendipityisa9656 I think the lawsuit should had been 10 billion. Bankrupt these cities and the pensions for those cops, they will learn
Every officer involved in this including those who came in on duty seeing it after the fact who did nothing to fix the situation should each and every one be arrested for abuse of power, aiding and abetting in civil rights violation and all get 20+ years prison.
And so there should be, its atrocious what they did and the local public need to be aware, I don't understand why the innocent husband was fired, that's another lawsuit right there
One of the sad reasons is that there is so much worse stuff going on that people are either desensitized to it or there are so many other even worse things going on. This was also mere months before George Floyd too.
@@dadaiay6132 he saw the detective who were wearing civs cloth instead of uniform police depeartment so he thought somebody is trying to rob his house.
I walked around the corner to my apartment once there was a dog that made me excited and back away in fear quickly and he started to come after me. The landlord said it was the neighbors dog and introduced us and we were cool after that. Predators often feel like attacking during that reaction like an instinct. These guys make people afraid and then when you respond like you would to a threat they blame it on you.
Good on MN to give some dignity to pregnant prisoners and detainees. There have been such horror stories about the mistreatment of them it's insane. That said, it's ridiculous that someone's life can be ruined over a "mistake" (or what I think is just racism in this case since it was automatically assumed the guy stole it, and the cops behaved the way they did) and being innocent. There needs to be laws that demands a person that is declared innocent and/or not charged to get their job back (within a reasonable timeframe), or at least make it illegal to fire them until they are convicted (depending on the crime).
It was unwise. He could easily have lost his life for firing those shots. Owning a gun does little to protect you and puts you in danger of death or prosecution for manslaughter.
This is pathetic..Thank God one of their bullets didn't kill the husband / wife and her unborn child..just disgusting 🤢..take them straight to the bank and sue for every penny they have
The woman ended up with a $500,000 lawsuit settlement over being unlawfully shackled. I think they still have other lawsuits pending over the bogus arrest and search and damages to their lives. The officers involved weren’t disciplined except for the one in plain clothes, who got a mere three day suspension. The county released a statement saying they hold their officers to a higher standard. I think their lack of discipline for what was colossal incompetence and breaking the law themselves, says differently. The husband lost his job because of their wrongful actions but they get to keep theirs.
How can people be so heartless not to care for an unborn child and a mother-to-be see a person in labor and do nothing to help them risking the life of the mother and child what's wrong with this picture
The cops involved need to go to prison. This is beyond absurd. No reasonable human being would ever do this. I can't even comprehend what they were thinking.
Looking at her we all know it wasn't about the snowblower. You can take innocent from the headline because even if she was guilty, jailing a pregnant woman in active labor is a dead penalty. The choose to put a mother and baby in danger and there is no justification even if she was a serial killer.
Held her for what? He defended their home from a civilian dressed cop. Everything the cops did was uncalled for. My dad was a cop for years and he was disgusted with the way the system changed.
Never understood how the house gets so destroyed when you knew what you were there for. And the cop even said “the snowblower in the garage “; so why destroy the house and what not when you know what your looking for and its location?
This is common practice by Maple Grove Police. The county settled with this couple for $500,000 without going to trial because I'm sure they must have realized they were going to lose a lot more. The plain clothes detective, the infamous jackoff James Kirkey was suspended for 3 days without pay. Should have been fired like the guy they arrested was.
If she was taken into custody and not charged for a crime she technically could've just walked out it's illegal to place someone under arrest without being charged with a crime. Also never answer the questions given by the Police that's your 5th Amendment Right. Where was her attorney? There is a whole bunch of illegal with this.
They said right in the video that they can hold you for 36 hours before deciding to charge you. Do people even watch the two minute video before they comment?
If the police have any brains, they would quietly settle, make a public apology and remove this from the husband's record. It would not do any harm to retrain these officers to ensure such a thing never happens again. A baby nearly died because of this unnecessary shackling. If the officers have a fetish for BDSM fantasies,save it for their off-duty time. The fact remains that 2 innocent people were arrested and somebody screwed up. The advice to take away is don't use credit notes online,buy with a credit card. That way any refunds will have to go back onto the card. It would also show on the receipt and give purchase protection if it was over £100.
In the late 80s a couple of men shoved through my door and started taking a VCR. They said Rent A Center said it wasn’t paid for. I said it was a Christmas gift to my kids from their grandparent. I’m standing at my door looking at the paperwork and the house number is mine but not the street. They wouldn’t listen. To them I was just a thief. When they eventually realized they made a mistake they came back, literally threw down the VCR and left. No apology or anything. Now the police work to repossess merchandise assumed stolen. Huh, we are all living under corporate corruption.
Cold Spring Police and Stearns County Sheriff falsely jailed me over a traffic ticket. This is long but I wish a news channel would expose this ongoing corruption in Stearns County and Cold Spring police department. So I will write it here since this video is similar and sick of police just getting away with it and continuing. Attorney laughing? Inappropriate! My bad warrant was quashed after the damage was done to me and time had passed that I had to sit in jail when I should have been attending a wedding, at home with my children, and working. It affects me mentally as I had to sit in a holding cell with two other women for 72 hours. I take a number of medication for medical issues since 2006 with one medication causing severe withdrawal after only 24 hours of not taking it. I fought for my meds while in jail and asked if I could bring them when they corrupt police swarmed my home unannounced at 730 pm. Nope I was refused my medication. And no nurse could monitor my withdrawal. Why? Because I asked while in jail and they will tell me if I need to see the nurse while I’m in THEIR jail I don’t tell them that I need a nurse. So because I asked I was never monitored by a nurse. If a dr knew I abruptly quit taking the medication they would admit me to a hospital because cold turkey stopping would kill me. Lucky for me it didn’t . Humiliated in front of my neighbor’s in the tiny town of Richmond, MN. worse cuffed in front of my 9 month old and 5 year old in the middle of supper. Woops Stearns county just made an administrative error. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just say oops when I could have died in jail? It’s one thing if I deserved to be in jail but no way did I! I lost over 16 hours of work at two jobs, lost one job but begged for it back and I got it back. But to this day people say that just doesn’t happen in regards to being arrested and left to sit in jail without medical help for 72 hours if I didn’t do anything wrong! I have the quashed warrant to prove it! They took my mug shot (horrible picture too that’s a whole different story) and put it online for future employers etc to see with one click online . States I was arrested and jailed for something that is due to an administrative error. I tried to get them to take my arrest off the internet and they refuse. So people who don’t realize corruption is real and right in their own state of MN, they think I’m hiding something when I say it was a bad arrest. Stearns County made an administrative error resulting in a body warrant for 72 hours in Stearns County Jail over a traffic ticket that was already paid and taken care of. My mother had to blow up at George Lock the head guy in administration for me to get a call where he apologized and said “we dropped the ball”. I will never be the same again and haven’t been since. I remember clearly when they beat on our door unannounced and rang the doorbell and my husband and I answered. What if he was downstairs with his headphones on and I was in the shower? My kids watching cartoons. Sick ain’t safe in our own house anymore even. I get triggered every time someone knocks or rings our doorbell unannounced. Sick the trauma and lasting effects I know am just forced to live with! And look at this situation in the video things are getting worse. At least this family will get compensation. I got zero and have a mugshot following me around the rest of my life. Sadly attorney told me I have to be severely harmed to file a lawsuit. And physically I’m fine, mentally and emotionally I still have nightmares about it and worse I live in fear because I lived through just a little bit of what many people I’m certain are living through today wrongly arrested or wrongly accused. I understand this can happen to me again and next time it may be worse I could end up in a body bag as I was refused all my medication while in jail over Stearns county’s error. To this day that whole situation labeled me in this tiny judgmental community. Cops wouldn’t even show up to help me or take my report when my life was threatened by an ex who is psychotic. I even sent the text the next day to the chief of police after I initially called about this threat to my life April 2021. I thought they must not believe me that my ex is threatening me again (a restraining order expired just days before against my ex and he wasted no time he still harassed me and my son at his school but who do I call for help? Cops don’t come). This chief of police stated he would respond. Four days later silence I even reached out to an officer in that time asking if the chief forgot about responding to my call for help. I was told via email the chief would respond soon. Nope never did! Few days later I sent another email and said forget it so much had happened in between in the harassment it didn’t pay it was messy and confusing even for a police report. Sad world when you live feeling fearful because no one is there to actually help me if I’m in danger and worse they come and make my life hell and ruin it when I’m a law abiding citizen just trying to make it in the world .
Yes I understand and this is really really really bad I don’t know why they go after innocent people and let the bad guys go free and not even go after them. It happened to more people that I know as well. Please self sooth self-care self-love and the very best to you always
@@soshenewpane2717 thanks for the spot on kind words! I have yet to answer the question why I get jailed for a traffic ticket while my ex who broke our restraining order at my sons school against my son, in writing even, was given a total pass! Felony, just let go and what do we see he is still psychotic with violent tendencies to date! On the streets! Worse my ticket was taken care of it was an administrative error. Altho I was let go eventually when I got my attorney involved I still sat for some days in a holding cell with two other women! Traumatic.
They shackled her legs together while she was in labor?! That is beyond cruel. This is purely malicious behavior. And all those responsible need to lose their jobs. They should also be charged and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There is absolutely no excuse for this appalling abuse of an innocent woman. She was never even accused of committing a crime. Is she being treated this way because she's wearing a hijab? Were they targeted because they're Muslim?
This is one of the many reasons we need to get rid of qualified immunity for Police Officers in the country. And judicial reform. The whole situation is messed up. And then the fact they ransacked the whole house looking for the snowblower knowing it’s not inside the house, it’s in the garage or shed. Is that part of their policy, they claim they follow so strictly? Hope they sue for 20 million. But the sad fact is these cops will not pay or face one consequence. It will all be the taxpayers.
I WOULD SUE DEFINITELY ‼️‼️ when his boss find’s out it was a wrongful arrest why wouldn’t he give him his job back what if it was the other way around how would his boss feel about it happening to him⁉️⁉️
Completely incompetent legal and law enforcement all around. These people are owed serious compensation for the life-threatening terror they endured. Glad the baby was OK.
If the search warrant was for a snowblower (specific object, not concealable in a cupboard)--- but the rest of the house was ransacked--- that's an illegal search...
