I hope he has a really good attorney.
the arkansas mafia is still alive
This happened in Atlanta to an elderly lady. She thought living in the rough area she lived, she was being attacked. Reached for her gun and was shot alot of times. Shame fear of drugs has caused death, when they claim they want to end drugs to avoid deaths. Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone who thinks the war on drugs is a good idea is an idiot and certainly not a conservative.
The WOD warriors will be here soon to say the guy deserved it.
He had to walk two miles on crutches and an infected leg to his hearing last week
Doesn't this guy know anyone with a car?
When we allowed authorities to wear ninja suits, it was all over.
bump for later
These are the exact type of Cops I hate. Despise... They make the Nazis look nice, cause at least you KNEW the Nazis weren’t pretending to protect and defend anyone but themselves. I am a cop hater. I plead guilty. Never met one who didn’t have an ego bigger than Clinton. There are no good cops, just ones who’s own criminality hasn’t yet been exposed. But I am no WOD apologist either. Drug users and pushers need the death penalty. Publicly. Do that to every convicted dealer in every state on the same day, just once.. and you’d set bad that element a century! It is because we do not enforce draconian penalties, that we end up with draconian abuses by cops.
It’s not really that it is the cops fault.. they are just as sinful, corrupt, wicked as the next person... but as CS Lewis said so well...
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Cops do these abuses with the very approval of their own deluded corrupt conscience.
The WOD is doing more damage than it’s preventing. Stopping dealers, no matter how desireable that may be, in no way justifies the tactics being used. Personally, I think users should be left alone. If you want to get anybody, get the dealers.
Some of them eventually figure out they're just eliminating the competition from the Chief's good old boy buddies, but the money is good, there are no standards and they get to play "I Spy".
(From another 20 year veteran of the cops and robbers biz)
No knock warrants should be immediately outlawed.
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Arkansas huh? Did he have some dirt on the Clintons?
On second thought, he couldn’t have, otherwise he would be dead.
The worst I ever heard was a California case a few years ago. A 72 year old ranch owner was killed in a mistaken drug raid—bad info and no drugs—but the kicker was the emails and memos of the “legal authorities” prior to the raid.
They had the smell of big dollars in their noses via confiscation of the man’s ranch. All their their proceedings and plans were predicated on the confiscation of the property.
Sometimes Rambo is the answer.
Well, the article is dramatized but I’ll say this. There is little or no due process now for jackbooted thugs to conduct a raid based on circumstantial evidence. I’ll tell you my quick story:
My wife own’s a little red sports car. She is a licensed phlebotomist (draws blood at hospitals and such). She dropped a friend off in a drug neighborhood about a mile away. This friend wanted to partake as a user but my wife had nothing to do with anything but give her a ride because this friend was drunk. My wife’s license plate is ‘envein’. To stand for phlebotomy. After dropping the friend off, she pulled into the driveway. I saw a TON of blue lights pull into my driveway and I thought a neighbor had an emergency. DEA & SWAT plus a half dozen cruisers were in my driveway, on my lawn! There was three DEA’s with body army with rifles drawn behind my wife’s car. She saw all the blues, but did not see the shotguns drawn behind her. I was in my bath robe and I said, “I am unnarmed, please let me say something to my wife”. The police said “go ahead”. I told her to put her hands on the steering wheel and make no sudden moves.
I knew if my wife saw the drawn weapons she would freak and probably been shot. The police lowered there weapons. They asked me to stand back in my doorway. Then they asked her if they could search the vehicle. My wife said no problem. They of course found nothing but it illustrates the point of overreaction and lack of due process before they draw the weapons.