Veteran Says FBI Brought War Tactics to Family Home Over Jan. 6

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The FBI raided a Minnesota family home twice in 2021, even flying a drone into the chicken coop. One family member called the raids โ€™strict intimidation.โ€™

LINDSTRร–M, Minn.โ€”The knock at the door came before sunrise, but the men outside didnโ€™t wait for an answer.

Robert Westbury, 64, had barely made it halfway down the stairs from his bedroom when he heard and felt the shockwave. BOOM.

A battering ram wielded by an FBI SWAT team blew the hinges off the front door on this cool April morning in 2021. Tactical officers poured into the tri-level home, aiming their laser-guided M4 rifles at anyone in their path.

On the homeโ€™s lower level, Aaron James sat up in bed and scarcely had time to throw on some clothes before his bedroom door flew open.

โ€œThis guy came in hot with a rifle pointed at me,โ€ Mr. James, 37, told The Epoch Times. โ€œI put my hands up like, โ€˜Iโ€™m not going to move but get that rifle off me. Stop pointing that rifle at me. Iโ€™m not going to move. Iโ€™m not going to do anything.โ€™

โ€œThe guy came up to me to put his hands on me to cuff me, and heโ€™s shaking, like trembling,โ€ Mr. James said. โ€œIโ€™m thinking, โ€˜Dude, get the rifle off of me.โ€™โ€

Mr. James recognized the special weapons and tactics from his years of training for close-quarters battle in the U.S. Navy. He served as a fleet marine force corpsman with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

โ€œThey used those same tactics and those same weapons on us that weโ€™ve used overseas in a combat zone,โ€ he said. โ€œThey brought that to this neighborhood.โ€

โ€œThis guy was kitted up like he was in Iraq or Afghanistan,โ€œ Mr. James said. โ€They were stacked up, lights on the rifle. He had the EOTECH sight on it. He was ready to go and do a close-quarter combat clear in our house. Kick a door and clear the door. Move on. Kick a door and clear the door. Move on.โ€

The agents demanded to know the location of Jonah Westbury, 28.

โ€œWhen theyโ€™re asking where he was, I was like, โ€˜He doesnโ€™t live here.โ€™ They start grabbing furniture, tipping it over, throwing sh*t. Iโ€™m like, โ€˜Stop, stop!โ€™ And theyโ€™re like, โ€˜Where is he?โ€™ Like, weโ€™re gonna f**k your house up if you donโ€™t tell us where he is.โ€

Jonah Westbury lived in an apartment in the same structure, but it had its own entrance and a separate legal address.

Byย Joseph M. Hanneman

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