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To: Blueflag
If your version is correct, can you supply a link? Also, IIRC, the closest relative to the 92 year old woman was, I believe, a niece in her 70's, not a "he" and not a "junior".

I agree with others who oppose these "no knock" raids. IMHO, "no knock" raids create more problems for everyone in the long run, with countless stories of police going to the wrong house and unwarranted and unnecessary violence.
42 posted on 02/07/2007 4:06:56 PM PST by khnyny
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To: khnyny

Don't have a link cuz it was all a series of reports here on the FOX5ATLANTA Ch 5 10 o'clock news.

There were never any drugs found on the first floor of the house where grandma lived. The police (reportedly verified by the FEDS) found a small (not boxes full) amount of drugs (don't remember what) when they cut through the lock and went in the basement. Reportedly the basement only had exterior rear entry (which they showed a bazillion times on the news).

Also bear in mind the cops used an informant (reliable in the past) to 'verify' drugs were being sold at the address. Plus the 'address' had been watched for some period of time by the narcs to observe behaviour consistent with drug selling. The snitch LATER publicly recanted his advice to the cops and went on video saying the cops made him say it.

If you want the links, search the archives of www.myfoxatlanta.com or contact the producer(s) there. They reported all this stuff before it became a witchhunt.

So don't jump to the conclusion that this was all bad from the start.

The cops had reason to believe drugs were being sold at the house. That part of Atlanta you'd be hard pressed to find 5 houses in 20 that did not exhibit suspicious activity.

Yes, it all went wrong. But it didn't really start that way.


45 posted on 02/07/2007 4:20:43 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: khnyny

What really wonders me is that it is mostly leftists who defend these raids unconditionally, though there are some putatively conservative FR types who do also, and these same leftists are the ones who equate police in general with NAZI stormtroopers.


91 posted on 02/07/2007 9:49:46 PM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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