Bad News: It's the deputy who already resigned, so they throw her under the bus as if it was all HER fault.
The Sherriff is still blaming the family and the baby. He's the one who should be tarred and feathered.
ONLY one indictment??
JUST ONE??????
Well, hopefully this will the last one and that this tech will be common place.
http://www.popsci.com/police-will-throw-camera-ball-rooms
So the baby refused to obey the officers’ orders?
Good. But didn’t the local gov’t deny medical payment to the child?
I can’t describe what I’d like to see done about this matter, it’s what every other freeper is saying to themselves. I’d be banned from this fine website.
God could forgive these creatures.... but I cannot.
Bull Winkle. You should always assume homes have children or grandchildren in them.
A search warrant was issued based on a false swearing. So, yes, Autry is the one who is being prosecuted in civil rights violations. Without the false information, it is likely that the search warrant would not have been issued.
As for the other officers, unless they also knew that the warrant had been issued based on false information, they have a qualified immunity.
GA FReeper ping
Well said.
the problem is with the training these police get and the procedures they follow. the people responsible for that are the ones who always escape punishment because none of us ever find out who they are.
Perhaps most disturbing is a report from the Washington Post that “the Drug task force that killed an innocent pastor in 2009 also involved in burned toddler story.”They must have thought they caught the Drug Kingpin. smh ...and to think, I grew up in rural Georgia. TbbtgoG.The Post further reports that the drug task force that conducted the alleged drug buy and investigation of the accused drug dealer, Wanis Thonetheva, who was the target of the raid that severely injured Bounkham Phonesavanh, is the same unit that was responsible for the death of pastor Jonathan Ayers during a raid conducted in 2009. The Post reports:
In September 2009, the young pastor Ayers was ministering to a young woman whom a Georgia drug task force was investigating on drug charges. (She had allegedly sold an undercover officer $50 worth of cocaine.) When task force members saw Ayers alone in the car with the woman, they switched their focus to him. According to Ayers’s lawsuit, the woman was about to be evicted from the motel at which she was staying. Ayers gave her the $23 in his pocket to help cover her rent.
The task force followed Ayers to a convenience store, where he went in to get money from an ATM. When he returned and got into his car they pounced. They pulled up behind him in an unmarked black SUV. Armed agents dressed in street clothes then rushed Ayers’s car. He put his car in reverse and attempted to escape. In the process, he nicked one agent. Another then opened fire, killing him. Ayers told hospital staff was that he thought he was being robbed. His reported last words were, “Who shot me?”
At the time he was killed by police, Ayers’ wife was expecting their first child.
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
Enforce the Bill of Rights
It’s the LAW !!!
NO KNOCK is unconstitutional.......the judge as well as the cops need to do the Hemp Hop or the Jute jump; their choice
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Based on the erroneous information she presented, which also included claims of "heavy traffic in and out of the residence," the judge issued Autry a "no knock" search warrant.
When a SWAT team executing that warrant found the front door blocked, one of the officers tossed a flash-bang grenade inside the residence. Once inside the home, the SWAT team realized a portable playpen had been blocking the door, and the flash-bang grenade had landed where a 19-month-old was sleeping, eventually exploding on the child's pillow.
The toddler spent weeks in a burn unit in a medically induced coma.
Drugs are bad, mmkay? It's for the children. /s