Posted on 03/21/2009 9:02:15 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
ON A SWELTERING July afternoon in 2007, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his narcotics squad members raided an Olney tobacco shop.
Then, with guns drawn, they did something bizarre: They smashed two surveillance cameras with a metal rod, said store owners David and Eunice Nam.
The five plainclothes officers yanked camera wires from the ceiling. They forced the slight, frail Korean couple to the vinyl floor and cuffed them with plastic wrist ties.
"I so scared," said Eunice Nam, 56. "We were on floor. Handcuffs on me. I so, so scared, I wet my pants."
The officers rifled through drawers, dumped cigarette cartons on the floor and took cash from the registers. Then they hauled the Nams to jail.
The Nams were arrested for selling tiny ziplock bags that police consider drug paraphernalia, but which the couple described as tobacco pouches.
When they later unlocked their store, the Nams allege, they discovered that a case of lighter fluid and handfuls of Zippo lighters were missing. The police said they seized $2,573 in the raid. The Nams say they actually had between $3,800 and $4,000 in the store.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
If these cameras were not decoys....they probably have some type of recording system attached....which would show the cops destroying the cameras...and it does not sound like they got to the recording equipment.
These were not bright cops if they did not get to the recording system
If these cameras were not decoys....they probably have some type of recording system attached....which would show the cops destroying the cameras...and it does not sound like they got to the recording equipment.
This is a long article of several arrest/raids where the cops apparently target the Koreans/Jordainians/Dominicans. The article indicates in at least one instance the computer controlling the cameras had images of the cops and the cops destroyed the computer.
From the article: [Four days after the raid and the arrest of Maghtha’s father, he re-opened the store and discovered the computer that controlled the video surveillance system was gutted, Maghtha said.
“They took everything from the computer - the hard drive, the DVR [video] card, the DVD and CD-ROM player,” Maghtha said.] end snip....
This is a case of cops gone bad based upon the stories of the raids as told in the paper. At least it appears now that enough public exposure is happening to at least get a special investigative task force in action which include the FBI and police personnel.
Mind if I borrow that pic sometime? :)
So you are really advocting the killing of Police officers?
Welcome to the Black Panthers/ Weather Underground and other nutball groups.
You, Sir, are a ass.
If you stop for a moment to consider what the person wrote you’ll see that they didn’t actually advocate shooting cops, it was a warning of what to expect. Maybe you should slow down and think about what you are reading a little more before you start with the profane name calling.
When someone uses the word “ bagged” to discribe the killing of three police officers like he was talking about hunting them down and killing them like animals, that person earned the “Profane” name I called him.
So there.......
There was no advocacy there, what happened is what happened. And I think it was four.
Police in general are becoming the feared and/or despised adversary of ever increasing numbers of people - or as they describe themselves in Missouri, "the enemy".
Ortiz said he took a plea deal and served six months' probation and 25 hours of community service for selling the tiny plastic bags.
That's just one reason. For years I have been buying those tiny plastic bags 4000 at a time and using them for all kinds of things in legitimate business, never once thinking they were just for dope. I have used them personally for things like small parts, nuts & bolts, salt & pepper, medicines, garden seeds, coins & jewelry, and yes, tobacco. Because of a stupid law declaring a thing to be paraphernalia when it is clearly not, these guys in PA and too many other places have appointed themselves the power to go in and wreck a family's business and steal their property. Those particular cops are nothing more or less than thugs, and whatever comeuppance is to be their lot, it will be deserved..
One needn't wonder for a second why there are people who hate cops, and one can express recognition of that reality without necessarily being one of the growing number who do.
I bet this story will make all of the Drug Warriors happy!
Is it time for the cop haters to begin their blood dance celebrations?
Absolutely NOT. This is a sad time for the people involved, & they deserve our prayers.
Are you sure?
Post 29: “It is no longer pulling for law and order versus pulling for crime, it has become a matter of which group of criminals is less likely to kill me when confronted by them. And yes, more and more I root against the thugs in blue who hide behind a badge in order to bully, steal and kill.”
I didn’t write Post #29, did I? But when the cops act like thugs, they deserve what they have coming to them...just like anyone else does.
Make that post 28.
Sorry...I meant Post # 28 also...I was referring to what you said, so I never knew that # 29 was my own.
The thread has gone just where I figured it would.
So you take the side of the thug-oriented cops rather than the Nam family? I’m not surprised.
By all means, go bag some cops and dance in their blood.
Answer my question if u would.
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