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Review finds widespread wrongdoing in Atlanta Eagle bar raid
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 06/29/2011 | Rhonda Cook and Angel K. Brooks

Posted on 06/29/2011 3:26:15 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

I have no doubt that they have overstepped the bounds of their authority. It seems to be a growing, and disturbing trend, amongst the boys in blue.

But was the gay bar thing “the straw”?


21 posted on 06/29/2011 4:02:58 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: HiTech RedNeck

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22 posted on 06/29/2011 4:03:51 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Well, being anti-gay myself (if that is defined as absolutely believing that homosexuality is a wrong behavior and should be discouraged in any reasonable way possible), all I see here is a bunch of hate-filled deflection of blame from those engaged in evil behavior to the law enforcement officers doing exactly what I would hope they would do...get rid of this bad activity from every community.

Am I to assume you are sympathetic to the homosexuals?


23 posted on 06/29/2011 4:08:49 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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...get rid of this bad activity from every community.

Be careful on that slippery slope.

24 posted on 06/29/2011 4:12:19 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Dutchboy88
the law enforcement officers doing exactly what I would hope they would do...get rid of this bad activity from every community.

So you're ok with the cops lying under oath, fabricating evidence, using excessive force and generally violating peoples civil rights?

My friend, if so then you seriously need to leave this country, you are no longer worthy of its graces... pathetic, you are. I hear Angola is nice this time of year, maybe you'd be more open to an Islamic country, they feel the same way you do about alot of things. http://answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/homosexual.htm

25 posted on 06/29/2011 4:21:03 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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I am okay with law enforcement trying to do what must be done to return this land to its owners...the citizens who do not want the homosexual agenda. And you are equally invited to leave for the recently antinomian Europe wherein your anarchist tendencies may find their full expression.

You clearly are on the wrong website, my FRiend.


26 posted on 06/29/2011 4:35:26 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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27 posted on 06/29/2011 4:39:31 PM PDT by pingman (Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
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To: Mr.Unique

There is no slippery slope here. When a group organized around a behavior (an immoral behavior at that) attempts to hijack the morals of a country and compel the rest of the citizens to bow down and honor their behavior, we have every responsibility to stand up and say...enough. Stop it. If the cops help us push back, I commend the effort. And, no, I am not afraid of them. Stay this side of such activity and you face almost no danger of having a bad encounter.

After all, you do this every day with some behaviors and not with others. Pray tell, whence did you acquire this right and not fall down a “slippery slope”?


28 posted on 06/29/2011 4:47:27 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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Sergeant Brock knowingly violated the patrons’ Fourth Amendment rights when he instructed that all patrons to be frisked for weapons. … Although Sergeant Brock recognizes that APD does not have the right to pat down every person at a crime scene unless they were involved with the crime, Sergeant Brock instructed Vice officers to frisk each and every patron for weapons.”

You can solve this problem just by declaring sodomite bars to be airports. Then you don’t need no steenkin’ probable cause.


29 posted on 06/29/2011 4:52:42 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Bars can house whatever consensual behavior they jolly well want, it seems. (Perhaps with proper warning at the door.)

That's how it should be, but, now, they can't even let you light up a smoke. The concept of private property is disappearing -- just read a bunch of the comments on this thread.

30 posted on 06/29/2011 4:55:56 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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Magical Mischief Tour...REDDOG has been unfairly and more importantly, INCORRECTLY brought into the Kathryn Johnson debacle. I know this because I responded to the scene after they had shot her and advised that three of the detectives had also been shot. Kathryn Johnson tragic death was solely on the shoulders of two lying SCUMBAG, narcotics detectives, that are now in prison. With 10 and 12 year sentences.


31 posted on 06/29/2011 4:58:01 PM PDT by qaz123
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The whole Eagle Bar raid, lies solely on the shoulders of the command staff of the Atlanta Police Dept. However, when they screw up, which is fairly routine, they always find some lower ranking officers to take the fall. This is normally done when they make certain requirements(SEE QUOTAS) of the officers, but are unwilling to put anything in writing. Then, the officers, more worried about what their off-days and assignments are, follow these normally unethical and often times, illlegal directives, without blinking an eye. Then, when the officers are called to the carpet, they’re thrown under the bus by the command. Happens every day, all day in that city. If Atlanta’s taxpayers really knew what they were paying for, they’d be horrified.


32 posted on 06/29/2011 5:04:17 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: achilles2000

I’m sure the porno-scanners required upon entry would be a big hit. They can be output to all the bar’s big screens and the patrons can see who’s ‘pack’n heat’ and who ain’t.


33 posted on 06/29/2011 5:12:37 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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According to the Greenberg Traurig report, 10 members of the vice unit and the RED DOG team, including three supervisors, violated APD's policy regarding truthfulness.

that's a very long way to spell "lied"...

34 posted on 06/29/2011 5:41:40 PM PDT by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: digger48

“You can smoke butts but you can’t smoke butts.”


35 posted on 06/29/2011 6:07:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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In describing his belief that gay people are more violent than heterosexuals, Brock stated: “In the past I have as a patrol officer handled calls where there are gay couples living in residence where one is mad at the other, and they slash clothes, furniture, anything they can do. They’re very violent.” (GT report, pp. 142-143.) When asked if he thinks “that the gay community is more violent than other citizen groups” Brock replied: “My experience, yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when they’re — when they get mad, they get really mad.”

This could actually be true, but because it's about some protected group, nobody bothered to check into the truth or falsity of the claim -- it was automatically dismissed as "prejudice."

36 posted on 06/29/2011 6:18:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Dutchboy88
When a group organized around a behavior (an immoral behavior at that) attempts to hijack the morals of a country and compel the rest of the citizens to bow down and honor their behavior, we have every responsibility to stand up and say...enough.

Which is why we need to fight against cops that violate the rights of citizens.

You stepped right into that one.

37 posted on 06/29/2011 8:47:14 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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>>> Am I to assume you are sympathetic to the homosexuals?

“A statement from the mayor’s office, released late Tuesday evening along with a 343-page report, said the independent review corroborated claims made in a federal lawsuit that has since been settled for more than $1 million.”

Am I to assume you are sympathetic to unnecessarily costing the tax payers of their city over a million dollars?

>>> what I would hope they would do...get rid of this bad activity from every community.

Some people think smoking, selling goldfish, fried foods, sweetened colas, and cooking with salt are bad activities. They may even be right. You really want the door open for the police roughing up pet store owners and restaurant chefs though?

>>> If Atlanta’s taxpayers really knew what they were paying for, they’d be horrified.

I believe you. I’ve seen a lot of things behind the curtain here as well.


38 posted on 06/29/2011 11:53:04 PM PDT by tlb
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To: Mr.Unique

Some Evelyn Woods programs will be in your stocking this Christmas. Use them.


39 posted on 06/30/2011 8:04:22 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: tlb

May want to check all your quotes before citing them. And, yes, I am willing to risk that we never have to worry about police breaking down the door for goldfish, if we can get them to break down the doors for gay bars.


40 posted on 06/30/2011 8:06:56 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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