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.
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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 ...
Well, it is Philly after all. It’s an Obama city.
And this is what our drug “warrior” contingent supports. I got a flash for them: WARRIORS do not make war on their own people, nor on the frail and helpless. This sort of behavior, while totally vile and disgusting, is of the exact nature of the pursuers of the war on some drugs... who are vile and disgusting and pitiful excuses for human beings.
These warriors are training to be part of 0bama’s fascist army.
Hmmm, mentol cigarettes...must those Amish again.
Police "seizing" anything is an affront against humanity.
Worst I’ve heard about yet north of Mexico. Forgot my link to the US (Google) map of botched drug raids is. This wasn’t just botched. Of course, if the people who planned this operation based on nothing more than a highly dubious tip from an unreliable witness, one may argue that few of these raids are not just “botched” but deliberate.
LA just bagged 4 cops....perhaps payback for BART shooting? if this keeps up Philly will start doing the same. Some people shoot cops for stuff like this...some fight back.
Must be a another chocolate city.
These cops need horsewhipped and locked up, for a long time, in the general prison population.
ammo up
Let me guess...Black males were involved?
This one is truly surreal.
>>Forgot [where] my link to the US (Google) map of botched drug raids is.
Here you go:
Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
Related publication:
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=15&pid=1441318
Older article on the subject:
Warrior Cops
The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in
American Police Departments
http://cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp-050es.html
Selling tiny ziplock bags, huh? Yep, that’s gotta be a felony.
“Drug raids gone bad ...”
Let’s see:
- they smashed surveillance cameras
- roughed and cuffed citizens
- rifled through drawers and trashed the place
- stole cartons of cigarettes
- took thousands in cash from the registers
- then they hauled the citizens to jail
Sounds like a drug raid gone according to plan to me
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