Posted on 04/24/2013 6:06:11 PM PDT by Altariel
A 61-year-old man was shot to death by
police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug
raid on the wrong house.
Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door.
The two officers, 25-year-old Kyle Shedran and 24-year-old Greg Day, were placed on administrative leave with pay.
“They need to get rid of those men, boys with toys,” said Adams’ 70-year-old widow, Loraine.
John Adams was watching television when his wife heard pounding on the door. Police claim they identified themselves and wore police jackets. Loraine Adams said she had no indication the men were police.
“I thought it was a home invasion. I said ‘Baby, get your gun!,” she said, sitting amid friends and relatives gathered at her home to cook and prepare for Sunday’s funeral.
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Was there a Blue Toyota Pickup in the driveway with a Boat hooked up behind it?
Did they shoot the Dog as well as the Homeowner?
Inquiring minds and all that...
Condolences to the Victim.
A-holes with blue suits and no brains.
Far too many of them these days.
Didn’t this occur last year?
Actually 13 years ago?????????
Some time ago (at Band Camp) I was told that “turnabout is fair play.”
Newsbrief: Tennessee Town Pays for Drug Raid Killing 5/31/02
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/239/tennesseetown.shtml
In October 2000, DRCNet reported on a rash of police killings during drug raids gone bad. Among them was the case of John Adams, 62, a black resident of Lebanon, TN, who was shot and killed by a police SWAT team raiding the wrong house on October 4 of that year. After masked officers burst into his home, Adams fired a shotgun at the intruders before they shot and killed him as his wife Lorine, 72, looked on in disbelief.
Lebanon Police Lt. Steve Nokes, head of the town’s narcotics unit, was fired from the police department and indicted on charges of criminal responsibility for reckless homicide, tampering or fabricating evidence and aggravated perjury. He was acquitted of all charges in June 2001.
But the Lebanon Daily Times reported on May 24 that the city of Lebanon will pay at least $400,000 to Lorine Adams. She has received a lump sum payment of $200,000 and will receive $1,675 per month for the rest of her life. If she lives 15 years, the total pay-out would reach more than half a million dollars. The city also paid John Adams’ medical bills of $45,000 and funeral expenses of $5,804. The city’s insurance carrier will pay for the settlement. No word yet on Lebanon’s new insurance rates.
See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/156.html#policeshootings for DRCNet’s October 2000 report on bad drug raids.
This goes back to 2000. The date on this settlement is 2002. The cops involved in this got off scot-free. White cop, black victim seems to be rather commonplace in this part of Tennessee.
I hope Loraine ends up owning the town lock, stock, and barrel.
I am interested in those who are.
Jessie, Al and the NAACP didn't march on the town?
Actually happened in 2000... http://www.salon.com/2000/10/19/shooting_3/
Government employees did the shooting.
Clearly, that’s okay.
</sarc>
Jessie and Al are afraid of being within 50 miles of this place. The NAACP made token expressions of investigating the thing.
Seems to me that these "isolated incidents" are happening more and more frequently.
It's for the children.
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Just give the widow some tax money, maybe she’ll shut up and go away.
Clicking on the abc link at the bottom takes me to this page;
There’s a date right under Vicki Browns name of 1/7/06
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