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The Minneapolis City Council has approved a $612,000 settlement with an innocent family Friday, who were raided by police in 2007, and the City is buying out this property

Homeowner Vang Khang and officers exchanged gunfire on Dec. 9, 2007—after Khang believe the officials were robbers attempting to invade his home in the 1300 block of Logan Avenue North. The police believed they were working off a tip, and were carrying out a surprise raid at a violent gang member’s hideout.

The raid left six windows broken and walls and ceilings pocked with pellet and bullet holes, and the family of eight understandably shaken.

Amazingly, no one was injured during the incident.

In Friday’s settlement, the city also agreed to take over payments for Khang’s home, which now sits boarded up and vacant.

According to Minneapolis Police Officer James Burns, a reliable informant had told officers that a member of the ‘Rolling 60’s gang’ lived at Khang’s address and was stockpiling weapons inside the home.

Based on the information, a judge approved a search warrant.

The Khang’s family attorney, Sia Lo, had argued that police missed signs that the informant’s information was false, including property records.

This past summer, eight Minneapolis officers were awarded medals of valor for their involvement in the botched raid. No disciplinary action has been taken against the officers involved.

However, the settlement will bring with it numerous changes within the Minneapolis Police Department, according to officials. Partially to blame for the incident was the language barrier between officers and Khang, who is of Hmong decent and has used an English translator during media statements. The department said they would increase the number of Hmong liaisons and officers on the force, and current officers would undergo training about the Hmong culture.

The Hmong are hill people from Laos. Hmong refugees began arriving in Minnesota in the late 1970s, and there are perhaps 60,000 Hmong in the state today.

ABC5 is covering this story, why is'nt FOX9!?

So, should we just assume that Tom Lyden had something to do with this? just because he scrapes the bottom of the story-pool, and supplies made-up stories, snitches, and steals evidence to make his quota?! for a "part-time" reporter?

His cubicle must be next to Beth's!

http://www.planetxvideo.com/

Here is something that UniversalSpin might subscribe to!

Especially with it bieng from YouTube!

Any other questions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZElWBsoyvUo

Will it be a hunting show?

Will it be a sports commentary program? 

How about a reality show based on parental advice?

Maybe a cooking show on tater-tot hot dish recipes?

Why not a Judge episode where she rules on divorces?

I got it! a Fashion Show, that features $100K working woman/hockey moms attire! 

Why hide information from public safety?

Many people know Beth McDonough as a KMSP Fox 9 News Reporter. You might have seen her on Television Reporting on hard crime issues. She is a very sharp, motivated and productive person who has now made a couple of mistakes. Why is it wrong to discuss this? Do you think MADD will approve of "keeping this under wraps"? Let's shed some light on this subject.

So what can average everyday working people learn from this incident. We all know from the recent O.J. Simpson Trial that no one is above the law. We also know this from other high profile court cases. The pattern that I see with these types of high profile criminal cases is that people who have money and have things easy usually like to take things over the edge and truly want to experience life to its fullest, without any respect for the law.

But Beth McDonough is not alone. I imagine millions of U.S. Citizens drive around either under alcohol or drugs each year, however only a very small portion of these people get caught. Hopefully Beth will learn a lesson from her 2nd arrest and will be overly cautious. It's no mystery that lawyers and doctors and professionals from all walks of life use illegal drugs, but the ones who seem not to get caught are the ones who get high or drunk in the privacy of their own homes. We wish Beth the very best and hope she takes advantage of this mistake to do better for herself.

Like I have stated before, don't fight it you'll just make it worse on yourself.

Also, I would like to personally thank midevil, hounder,  and bubbahoetep for all of your negativity. You guys have exposed what its really like to think INSIDE the box. We could not have done it without you! HEHE.

Is there anything else you would like to add in your non-glorious OUTRO?

I think a celebration is in order!

2 Minneapolis Cops Charged with Shooting Guns While Drunk After Party .

Scott Donald Mars, 34, and William David Thornbury, 28, are each charged with one count each of the following:

Intentional Discharge of a Firearm (felony)
Reckless Discharge of a Firearm in a Municipality (felony)
Carrying a Pistol While Under the Influence (misdemeanor)

Mars has also been charged with 4th degree DWI -- a misdemeanor

When will local governments be held to employee standards, like the rest of us?  I just wish that I could  recieve paid administrative leave for my errors.

Look, I can only imagine that their jobs are difficult, but when you step up to the plate of a so-called premuim, and elite professional, should'nt you fill the shoes?

I also realize that some bloggers, on here will still claim that some certain dogs are more dangerous, I just hope that the Iowans will not be sitting ducks. They have been through enough with the floods.

What do they think this is? the wild wild west, or mideival times?

What kind of "help"  is it to send Minneapolis Police Officers down to Iowa?  could it be the  assistance offered in the  Eddie Griffin (EX-Timberwolve) case?

"Not only did they fail to do their job, they were offered and accepted a bribe. They didn't ask him if he had been drinking, they didn't ask him where he had been drinking, and they didn't ask him how much he had been drinking," Padden said he has a witness who heard the officers accept $10,000 or $20,000 to drive Griffin home.

It's an embarrassment to the city. It's an embarrassment to the police department. It's an embarrassment to the chief," Padden said.

Or could it be the services rendered to a roughed up Minneapolis Firefighter  Elondo Wright  as he files a complaint against MPD for violating his constitutional rights?

I wonder how many pig farmers are going to to get raided, based on some "scarecrow's"  bad information? something tells me that they will get their quota for speeding tickets.

There is going to be a trail of misconduct all the way down to Cedar Rapids!

It has come to my attention that some bloggers that post there whole life story on a public site, can be extremely thin-skinned, even after dishing out some very disrespectful comments about about the name MIDEVIL, bieng tatood, on my mother! now you get it handed back to you, aka the shoe is on the other foot, and you are all of a sudden mr. family man America?  It's all fun, and games when you talk about you cant wait for my children to get mauled by a pit-bull.

Look, I understand that blogs, and opinions, are like bellybuttons, everyone has at least one, if you are that sensitive, you should keep them all covered up, especially when you step off on the wrong foot, with hostility, talking trash, and trying to force everyone in FOX-land to subscribe to your views. If you are that sensitive, you might as well not even go out in public, for fears that some will talk about your big nose, and uni-brow.

If you are looking for some sort of therapy, on your worldy problems you better go to confession, or Dr. Phil, because a local news station just may not be  the right outlet for you, to vent, and expect everyone to see things "your way" but then again, maybe thats why you are in the situation you are in.

There is nothing wrong with posting intelligent informative discussions, that have positive outcomes, from bloggers that know how to effectivley carry on a topic, but when you bring it into the gutter, you had better be prepared to get dirty! PAL,

I will disregard, those those neutral, idle threats, about meeting up in person, for one, you could'nt handle this, for two, AARP, would have you sign a disclaimer TOO! how you like me now?, CHIEF?