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.
NO excuse for no-knock raids. Especially for drugs. If the criminal destroys the evidence, so what, it's not a nuke device, who cares.
By that logic, EVERY SINGLE DRUG ARREST could be a no-knock raid. What a wonderful world that would be.
No. Here's your "reliable" informant:
"It was Fabian Sheats' third felony drug arrest in four months. But on the afternoon of Nov. 21, according to a police report, he was looking to curry favor, so he told officers they could find a kilogram of cocaine in a house at 933 Neal Street N.W."A druggie, just arrested for the third time in four months on a felony charge, thinks he can get off lighter by tipping them off to a bigger dealer -- so he just makes up some stuff and the police believe him. Not good. But it gets worse.
Also bear in mind the cops used an informant (reliable in the past) to 'verify' drugs were being sold at the address.
They did no such thing. It was only two hours from the time Sheats tipped the officers to Johnsons's house and the time the police obtained the warrant. They completely fabricated the story that they had the house under surveillance and that "Sam" made a drug purchase there. "Sam" doesn't exist. Later the police would try to use an old informant and threaten him to get him to lie about being "Sam" but he wouldn't and called 911 instead.
It started that way. It continued that way and is still that wway. That "observation" of the house turns out to have been a fabrication and there was only 2 hours between the "information" and the warrant. These guys were out on a lark and got caught in a shoot. Perhaps they don't deserve murder convictions but they do deserve to have been shot to death by the old lady.
You should what the news reports more closely. The informant says that he never said such a thing and that the cops approached him AFTER the shooting. The informant has worked for the feds and the altanta PD for 15 years.
f 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.
Thats bullshit .... provide a link or retract your statment.
Those cops murdered that old woman and lied all over the place.