Posted on 05/09/2007 12:00:34 PM PDT by dashing doofus
EW YORK -- Mary and Cornelius Jefferson were turning in for the night last June 24 when they heard the deafening boom of a battering ram tearing the front door of their Bronx apartment from its hinges.
"They kept on banging until the whole door had splintered," said Mrs. Jefferson, 63. "I thought they were coming to rob us, coming to kill us."
When the door gave way, it was not robbers but police officers who burst in, armed with pistols and a search warrant. The warrant -- based on the word of a paid confidential informer with a criminal record -- told of a young Hispanic man who was selling cocaine from the apartment. Instead the police found a terrified couple in their 60s, living in a meticulous apartment where plastic slipcovers protect the sofas and diplomas and awards line the walls
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Second Amendment will be completely and thoroughly neutered.
Taxpayer funded abortion on demand, of course, will be protected.
Hillarudy must be stopped!
If these people owned guns, they would likely still be sponging dead cop off the front porch.
I hope that Fred Thompson is the Republican nominee for President. But I gotta say, I think this article and your admitting that you had to search for it, goes a bit too far.
Probably, since this occurred in Rudy’s police state of NYC, they would be arrested since handguns are (for all practical purposes) outlawed in NYC, and long arms need to be stored locked and unloaded.
In NYC, you are supposed to call 911, then wait. That way the police know where to deliver the body bags and where to collect the evidence.
Why? Rudy is busy trying to reinvent history.
What ever happened to, “Open up in the name of the law!”? What’s the fascination with battering in doors? Policemen must have brothers-in-law employed as carpenters or something.
Sounds like you are trying to stretch a little bit of your own. No-knock raids and severe gun control existed in New York a long time before Rudy.
Might have something to do with not giving every potential armed criminal on the premises the chance to train their weapons on the front door!
I never said, nor implied, that Rudy INVENTED the no-knock raid.
But, just for your infomation, prior to becoming mayor, Rudy was a Federal Prosecutor and embraced these raids. He is quoted as stating that (I’m paraphasing before you get out the google search), that freedom means submitting to the authorities. I’m sure someone has the actual quote.
With a murder/violent crime rate that is a fraction of the rate in gun-slinging, Red State Utopias like Jacksonville, Charlotte, Mobile, DFW, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, Tulsa, Orlando, Memphis, Atlanta, and Birmingham, the vast, overwhelming majority of law abiding people in New York City don't need to worry about body bags.
Dateline “Ew York” - was that a Freudian slip(cover)?
Officers who participate in no-knock raids are asking for trouble. They should realize that being wrong but alive is far better than being right and dead.
“Might have something to do with not giving every potential armed criminal on the premises the chance to train their weapons on the front door!”
That’s real flimsy. Drug dealers don’t get into shootouts with cops. They can get a better deal going down, and be back out on the street by breakfast.
Professional dealers usually shoot other dealers.
You forget. The original justification for “no knock” was so the dealers couldn’t “flush” the evidence.
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I remember this story!
So true.
The people in the article are just lucky that they did not end up dead like the 94-year old woman in Atlanta. The one they planted drugs on after murdering her.
That couple needed to worry.
Innocent mistake — doofus.
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