Posted on 08/11/2005 1:12:44 PM PDT by freepatriot32
SUNRISE -- Police seized 2 ounces of marijuana at the home of Anthony Diotaiuto after shooting him 10 times, according to information on the drug raid released Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, while many friends and relatives of the 23-year-old bartender and student mourned him at a Davie funeral home, others appeared at a Sunrise City Commission meeting to demand an explanation for the fatal raid
"Do 2 ounces of marijuana constitute a death warrant?" asked Sunrise resident William de Larm, a friend of Diotaiuto's.
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See, marijuana will kill you.
Overall you can pretty much just look at the dates of signup. The morons supporting this - in general - all signed up after 2000 when the mean and median IQ on this site plummeted. The obvious danger of the behavior and justification of this behavior is sickening and evidence we are ready to go down the road the Brits and Australians have blazed for us.
My, that brings up a lot of hits. Would you be so kind as to narrow it down to the one that cites this specific incident?
Does anyone have anything to contradict the fact that police officers premeditatively murdered an innocent civilian in cold blood?
Why don't we just set up police snipers to take out jaywalkers, that'll really cut down on crime.
Here's the rub. The executed the SEARCH warrent with the SWAT team. So it's clear the executed as a high rish warrant. A high risk warrant can be executed during NON-DAYLIGHT hours, and occassionally without a knock at the door. It doesn't sound like there was a knock at the door in this case. Normally warrants must be executed during daylight hours, preceeded by a knock at the door etc.
Now here is where it gets tricky because it sounds to me like they decided to serve this as a high risk SEARCH warrant, because they guy had a gun legally registered in his name. So it all boils down to whether or not they identified themeselves as police officers when they entered the door and whether he understood/believed that they were. Because as many a FReeper knows when someone kicks in your door at 6 AM in the morning your likely to go for your gun.
People that deal drugs in paticular are likely to reach for the gun, because as any moderately successful drug dealer will tell you, your bigger risk factor is NOT GETTING BUSTED. IT'S GETTING ROBBED.
My conclusion is they should have detained the suspect when he came outside during daylight hours, and then preceded to search the house. They shouldn't be kicking in peoples doors at night to execute a search warrant based on the fact that they have a legally registered firearm in their name.
Ch 893, its a felony in FL too.
one flaw, respectfully. It was based on the CCW license. FL does not register guns.
Unless the SWAT team has video evidence to back up their story, they should be sitting in jail right now. Folks who think that this sort of military-style attack on US citizens is warranted chill my blood.
It's a ~felony~ quantity. In my book that counts for ~something~
So what is your logical solution in a situation like this where there aren't any handy independent witnesses to back up the police officers' claims? Perhaps the cops should surrender? Apologize and leave? Beg for their lives because shooting instead of being shot will incur accusations of murder from people like you?
Not talking about a trial, talking about an execution.
The undercover officer has the drugs purchased from the deceased. At a minimum that would be in evidence.
What law authorizes a police officer to kill a person for that?
I agree with others on the thread in that it appears the executed a NO-KNOCK warrant (aka HIGH-RISK) warrant despite the assertion that they "knocked" and "announced their presence."
The SWAT team doesn't normally serve search warrants, and when they do they DON'T KNOCK.
Unfortunately none. But they do have the right, under law, to go in the house and bust this guy.
And if the guy threatens deadly force, oh well. Paid the price for his crime.. Karma.
The burden of proof is on the claimant, not the respondent. If the claim is made based on a weak anecdotal standpoint then a single countering anecdote is sufficient to invalidate the claim.
This was not an execution by any definition.
What is the information about the undercover sale?
Are there complaints from neighbors?
What are the observations of officers PRIOR to the raid or even the warrant.
Where is the video or electronic survelance?
As fun as it is to be "sensational". Nobody wants to live next door to a drug dealer.
You really are a syptom of what has happened to this site. It and you are sad Mr tough Glock 32 guy. I bet you hope you get to shoot someone!
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