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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Cops routinely lie in situations like this to cover their asses...why should this case be any different?
Don't expect any sympathy from that JBT...after all, it's just another dead pothead.
I wonder if you'll feel that way when some JBT gets the wrong addy and comes to your house? 'Specially when its over a couple of bags of weeds.
BTTT
And that's why the ATF went storming in citing allegations of child abuse. The items found in the burned out compound after the fact--and there's quite a bit of debate about those items--are then used to justify the outcome. Embracing the rank stupidity, incompetence, and disregard for human life shown at Waco hardly advances any thesis you've be trumpeting. But hey, take comfort in the fact Ted Kennedy may lift some of your lines the next time the governments BBQs a bunch of citizens, including the children they were ostensibly rescuing.
I hate to burst your bubble but the cause of the original warrant was due to the sale of an illegal weapon. As for questionable evidence, tell it to the doctors who removed 50 cal. rounds from three dead ATF agents.
And speaking professionally, the "law is an ass." The law in this instance was one of the problems. Ludicrous zealotry in its enforcement was another.
Good luck in your job. I just reread the thread and realized you are a cop and not some groupie.
This whole thing smacks of shoddy, incompetent and possibly malicious police work. If the Sunrise storm troopers (err, "cops") had the place under surveillance as they claim, and had made a "controlled buy" from the house, they no doubt already knew that their victim had been working two jobs, and they could have easily arranged for a traffic stop, faux "sobriety checkpoint", and he could have been detained, restrained, and his house searched.
No, it looks more like the Sunrise SWAT team was looking for a little excitement, a little "boom boom" to start their day, my only remaining question is:
Did the cops who killed this guy get their coffee and donuts BEFORE the state-sanctioned homicide, or AFTER?
2 OUNCES of evil weed ... thank God this dangerous criminal is no longer a threat to our society (sarcasm off)
Still clinging to the government lies I see. Koresh was not guilty of any of the crimes you say he committed, but I am not surprised that you defend the Waco killers.
Typical Jack-boot Thug mentality.
"WACO:" ANOTHER LOOK AT WACO A Disturbing Film Renews Old Doubts
Most of the information in this film was published in a report released by the Committee for Waco Justice on January 28, 1994.
It seems that Americans, before they accept new information as being part of what they perceive as reality, have to see the pics -- "film at eleven."
A few of the section summaries in the CWJ report should indicate just how disturbing the situation seemed to them less than a year after the incident.
"BATF Found No Evidence Weapons Were Purchased Illegally"
In essence the committee believes that the search warrant was obtained under false pretenses and was therefore invalid. Thus the initial raid by the BATF on the Branch Davidian compound was illegal.
The CWJ report states:
"After BATF could find no evidence that weapons were purchased illegally, it based its "probable cause" on biased information about "intent" from "cult busters" committed to destroying the Branch Davidians and former members influenced by them and on words and deeds protected by the First Amendment."
"BATF Ignored Branch Davidian Attempts to Cooperate"
The committee says that the agency ignored David Koresh's history of cooperating with investigations by local law enforcement agencies, as well as his 1992 offer to the BATF and the local Sheriff's Department to let them inspect his guns.
"Questionable Grounds for a Paramilitary Raid"
"BATF decided to conduct a paramilitary raid because of the overly-aggressive mentality of raid planners, biased information from cult busters, shoddy intelligence, a need to bolster BATF's image, and the desire to punish a BATF critic."
"Dubious Drug Allegations to Obtain Helicopters for Free"
"BATF knew former tenants probably had set up a methamphetamine lab at Mount Carmel and that Koresh had dismantled it years before;" but they misrepresented the information "to get free support from the Texas National Guard."
"BATF Used Excessive Force to Serve Warrant"
The BATF had not been issued a no-knock warrant, yet they clearly had no plan to serve the warrant peacefully and had planned a shootout from the very beginning. The agents fired indiscriminately into the compound and may have fired the first shot. Davidians allege that shots were fired into their compound from helicopters.
"Allegations Friendly Fire Injured or Killed Some Agents"
Some estimates indicate that as many as half of the BATF casualties may have been due to friendly fire.
"BATF Intimidation of the Press"
"The FBI controlled, intimidated and lied to the press and the media." According to the CWJ report, the BATF, the Treasury Department, the FBI and the Justice department all collaborated to cover up what had actually happened at Waco.
The report also claims that the commander of FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Richard M. Rogers, "sabotaged negotiations by pressuring the siege commander to use harassment tactics and later CS gas against the Branch Davidians."
"The FBI convinced Attorney General Reno to approve their plan to gas and demolish Mount Carmel by evidently withholding from her David Koresh's very credible April 14th letter promising to surrender, even as they showed her his defiant April 9th and 10th letters."
Perhaps most significantly, apropos to the recent film:
"Despite FBI and Justice Department statements to the contrary, FBI agents were seen outside their tanks near the building before the fire. Under the FBI rules of engagement they had the authority to shoot Branch Davidians, may have done so, and now may be covering up their acts." The Davidians were trapped in their compound when the FBI attacked from three sides with tanks.
The committee believes that this started some of the fires from which most of them were unable to escape. While conceding the possibility that some of the fires may have been set by a few Davidians, they believe that there was no mass suicide.
Well know fact that police never lie to CYAs LOL
Ah yes. The old "police know best" routine. Of course, civilian oversight was pretty much the direct result of that little cloaking device.
There are few legitimate uses for a SWAT team. If you are a cop, you know that. This has "SWAT team workout" written all over it. The investigation here starts with the knucklehead who was scrounging up make-work for the boys in black.
I hate to break it to you but you do not remove 50 caliber rounds from a body. They do that themselves! Now maybe if they stacked up 10 or so agents in front of each one they removed the bullet from and shot through all of them . . .
Now who is obfuscating? No one has suggested cops stand as targets. Rather the general feeling is that not only should the punishment fit the crime, but the tactics should, too. Can't that sentiment survive on your side of the thin blue wall?
That is when you will come crawling to the police begging for their assistance every time.
Yes, begging them to do their job. They can then project then king stud muffin manly attitude and start filling out the report. If you guys had to grovel before Krispy Kreme would sell you a donut you might get an idea of how that feels.
Why don't you dissenters embrace the whole instead of your little slice of perverted conditions. It is because you are all "sleprocks" who want to believe the world is flat! Go back in your holes and let us do our jobs for the law abiding, tax paying, American citizens!
Does that include the American citizens who've had the temerity to disagree with you? You've got a serious case of Us v. Them going, and it doesn't take much to get on your "them" side, where apparently all rules are off.
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