Columbia, Missouri Police Chief Ken Burton is apparently frustrated. At another press conference yesterday, a reporter asked the chief what he has learned from the international attention generated by the YouTube video of his department’s SWAT team conducting a drug raid last February. His reply: “I hate the Internet.” That's ok Ken, I think I can speak for the internet when I say I hate your fat, bald ass too.




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For the second time in less than a week, Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton stood in front of reporters and announced changes in the way his department uses a SWAT team. "We did some things wrong," Burton said at the Monday afternoon press conference held at the Columbia Police Department. "And I'm telling you, it won't happen again." Several officers packed the doorways behind the press corps, listening to their chief as he outlined changes he called "unpopular" among some in the department. The changes include: A captain in charge of the area where the raid is to take place has to approve the operation. The location has to be under constant surveillance once the warrant has been issued. A raid is not to take place when children are present except "under the most extreme circumstances," Burton said. However, it's yet to be seen whether the latest adjustments will stem the backlash over a case that has thrown the department's little-publicized SWAT team into the spotlight and raised questions about several of the departments' policies. The department has faced criticism — and even received death threats — since a video of a Feb. 11 drug raid on a Columbia man's home was posted on the Internet. The video captured the sound of Jonathan Whitworth's pit bull, Nola, being fatally shot by SWAT team of at least eight officers. The Whitworths' Welsh corgi was also injured during the raid, which took place with Whitworth's wife and 7-year-old son in the home.

Source: Bad Cop: Columbia, Missouri Police Chief: “I Hate the Internet”

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