What dumbass greenlighted this idea? What a clusterfuck.
That said,this dude is gonna get PAID...


http://www.fox4kc.com/video/?autoStart= ... Id=3665572

GRANDVIEW, Mo. -- A local man said he was shocked to be rushed by U.S. marshals at a basketball game Wednesday.

Surveillance cameras at a Grandview community center captured video of Stuart Wright at a men's basketball game when the marshals burst in, guns drawn and a Taser gun deployed.

Wright, of Kansas City, Kan., had just gone in to sub for someone when suddenly the U.S. marshals drew down on him.

The marshals said they were looking for Vinol Wilson, charged with dealing crack cocaine in an organization that involved dozens of others.
The marshals said they try to avoid busy places, but that Wilson had been eluding them for more than a year. And a confidential informant told them that he was at the community center, wearing an orange jersey with the No. 23 on it.

"I just heard all this commotion and screaming, and as I turned I heard this gentleman screaming and he had a gun pointed at me," said Wright. "And as I put my hands up I guess he was screaming the gentleman's name who they were after, and I said my name is Stuart Wright, that's not my name and I heard pop,pop and I felt my body tense up, and I was on the ground." He showed where the two Taser gun probes left blood stains on the shirt.

The marshals said a deputy deployed the Taser because Wright pulled away from them when they ordered him to the ground, then cocked his arm as if to throw a punch.

Wright said that's not true. "I had my hands up in the air," he said.

"It was out of control," Wright said. "It was all the way out of control. It's unfortunate they feel like that's OK, that type of behavior in a family atmosphere with kids around, with innocent people around, that that type of behavior is OK."

"I honestly think it was poor planning and strategy, and I think somebody didn't do their homework," said Wright. "I think they were out of control."

"Those guys just bum rushed the gentleman, and it was maybe 8 of them and they had their guns out and where they approached him at it was a stand behind him full of kids," said Dukes. "I'm still disappointed because it was a stand full of kids."

The U.S. Marshals Office admitted that entering a crowded community center with guns drawn was not an ideal situation, but they said that the man they were looking for was armed and dangerous.

If they were going to do this, they could have at least sent someone in undercover ahead of time to make sure they were going to get the right guy.

Armed and dangerous? On the fucking basketball court? Where's he gonna hide a gun?

I LOVE this logic.

Maybe I should join the police, I have a Sipowicz style hunch that the guy would have showered after the game and walked out the front door where he could have been arrested with minimum fuss. Don't ask me how, you just have to follow your instincts with policing.

Of course you can't rule out the fact that he could have outfoxed everyone by firing a grappling hook through a skylight and left that way, or disappeared in a puff of smoke like a magician or even had Scottie beam him up to the USS Enterprise, so perhaps they made the right choice blundering into a public space with guns with no idea what they were doing or who was in there.

At least they didn't kill anyone like those G20 thugs.

God, how effing stupid. I would sue without doubt.

Is it even possible to sue the US Marshalls? From what I've seen, suing government agencies is a futile task.