Face-masked, full-on SWAT raid of ‘happy ending’ massage parlor

Radley Balko writes in The Washington Post:

In Birmingham, Ala., police launch a heavy-handed SWAT raid on a massage parlor.

Check the photos. Assault-style weapons. Masks that completely obscure the officers’ faces. Battle-dress uniforms. A battering ram.

You’d think they were taking down the Sinaloa drug cartel. Instead, they took down a shop where a few women are suspected of providing “extras” after giving massages.

But it isn’t just Birmingham. A couple years ago, I wrote about a similar raid in Houston. And here’s a screen cap from a raid on another spa last fall in Lebanon, Tenn.