Posted on 07/25/2017 6:46:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigators were granted permission to search Justine Damond's home hours after she was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer, according to court records.
A criminal law expert can't understand why.
"When I read that search warrant, I really cannot find probable cause to search her home," he continued. According to court documents, investigators applied for the warrant on the following grounds: The property or things above-described was used as a means of committing a crime
The possession of the property or things above-described constitutes a crime.
The property or things above-described is in the possession of a person with intent to use such property as a means of committing a crime, or the property or things so intended to be used are in the possession of another to whom they have been delivered for the purpose of concealing them or preventing their being discovered.
The property or things above-described constitutes evidence which tends to show a crime has been committed, or tends to show that a particular person has committed a crime.
Asked if that means the BCA considers Damond to be a suspect, spokesperson Jill Oliveira replied via email:
"No, an individual involved in the incident."
Daly, who said he has served as a visiting professor at the University of Queensland in Damond's native Australia, believes concerned members of the public in both countries will be outraged by the BCA's request to search the home.
"It's going to cause an international incident," he said. "I mean the prime minister of Australia already talked about this case on international television, and I think Australians are going to go berserk if they think the focus is on this woman as a suspect."
According to court documents, investigators did not end up taking any evidence from Damond's home.
What’s the charge? Obstructing a police bullet?
You might be on to something, there...
Interfering with the implementation of Sharia Law.
I bet they were making sure that there was no surveillance camera footage of the shooting.
Sounds like Albania or Venezuela.
I usually give police much benefit of any doubt, but one has to suspect that someone(s) involved in getting that search warrant hoped that ***SOMETHING*** criminal or at least embarrassing would turn up in that house, in order to counter the embarrassment to the department of shooting the RESIDENT who had nothing whatever to do with any CRIME.
There does not seem to be any good reason aka probable cause for such a search.
Were they putting something in her home that would make her look bad?
Bingo! Winner!
This takes blaming the victim to a new level.
Cop shoots an innocent person, fellow cops ask for and GET a search warrant for a desperate fishing expedition to find some reason to blame the victim for her own murder.
This is America?
What is the matter with the people in Minneapolis??? This is the worst case of “blaming the victim” that I have ever heard.
Sounds like they were hoping to find some dirt on this gal to help justify the shooting, or make it a little less painful...
Cops wanting to plant incriminating evidence in her home.
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This ain’t your grand Daddy’s America!
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Get back to me when it will cause and interstellar incident. International is so...international.
That's okay. Whatever was found will be suppressed at trial.
Maybe if they find a joint or something they can seize the home for cash, too.
I think she was home alone. I got the impression that the step-son and the husband were not there when this happened. The only "individual involved in the incident" would be the lady who was killed.
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