Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife Trinity Tomsic are pictured above at a press conference following the events. AP Photo )
Posted on 06/21/2009 8:05:36 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife Trinity Tomsic are pictured above at a press conference following the events. AP Photo )
Unbelievable.
Ridiculous and unacceptable. The failed drug war is a war on you.
Cops shot two dogs INSIDE this guy’s home?? Had these bums killed my lab puppy, a judge would be the least of their worries!
Well known methods of shipping drugs are to either pick an address on a route for the delivery company driver to take it or ship to a house where the owner won't be home during the day so someone can pick it up off the front porch. I don't think that merely being the addressee of a package of drugs should be sufficient to allow a no knock raid.
My ten pound golden retriever would eat them.
The lying and justifying of this type of mistake has got to stop and I hope eventually this mayor gets his justice.
I normally don’t like folks getting lawsuit happy. This time I’ll make an exeption.
Any particular state this happened in?
Oh. Tanks. Seems to be happening more and more everywhere or just being more widely reported. Not Sure.
I only know that answer because I’ve traveled through Prince George’s County. It’s an unimportant area in the middle of the East Coast. ;)
Sorry to say it mysterio but conservatives for decades built the WOD, empowered, funded, and supported the Police State we live in today. I am a fiscal conservative but have always been wary of how ready and willing many conservatives are to control the behavior of other people. By controlling the behavior of other people I mean that if you go to your city councilman and demand a new law to for instance ensure that every dog has an adequate water dish, that law will be enforced by an armed city employee at the point of a gun. So, 30-40 years of effort have gone into building this wonderful police state we live in, and it has been birthed by law and order republicans. Now, I drive the 5 min. to my local grocer and the median at the first intersection is crawling with 20-30 cops shining flashlights into my car. So, we live in a police state, and nobody should be surprised if somebody shoots a dog or two too bad, just the price to be paid for an orderly society. So if you are a law and order republican, and you know who you (not accusing you mysterio), don’t complain because you built this. If you are a government employee with a badge and a gun, an armed union thug, and you know who you are, you have spent a career building and supporting this kind of stuff.
The solution is to vote down every bond issue that funds Police Fire. You also call the city manager every time you see them applying for Federal grant monies for new police and police cars and ask them not too. My city just applied for a new federal grant to hire police officers. I can’t figure out why... I just saw 30 of them crowding an intersection in front of Wal-mart pulling over momma in her mini van on her way to buy groceries... cause she didn’t have the right tax stamp, cause one of the kids had unbuckled his seat belt, cause, cause cause.
Conservatives didn’t do it. Statists pretending to be conservatives did it. Republican doesn’t mean conservative. In fact, it often means quite the opposite. One of the best things I ever did was to stop self identifying with any political party.
Sheriff Michael Jackson (D), speaking at a memorial service last year, is among the politicians considering a run for county executive in 2010. (Prince George's County Sheriff's Department)
Maryland suburbs right outside of DC, near the U of MD campus.
If this can happen in a Mayor’s house what does that mean for the rest of us?
Suppose he (Calvo) had a gun and tried to defend HIS family against an apparently lethal intrusion? Before he realized it was OK, it's just a paramilitary SWAT team invading a private citizen's home on a flimsy pretext, no need to be concerned.
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