Posted on 05/17/2010 8:12:17 PM PDT by Dallas59
DETROIT – Police who carried out a raid on a family home that left a 7-year-old girl dead over the weekend were accompanied by a camera crew for a reality television show, and an attorney says video of the siege contradicts the police account of what happened.
Geoffrey Fieger, an attorney for the family of young Aiyana Jones, said he has seen three or four minutes of video of the raid, although he declined to say whether it was shot by the crew for the A&E series "The First 48," which has been shadowing Detroit homicide detectives for months.
Police have said officers threw a flash grenade through the first-floor window of the two-family home, and that an officer's gun discharged, killing the girl, during a struggle or after colliding with the girl's grandmother inside the home.
But Fieger said the video shows an officer lobbing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch.
"There is no question about what happened because it's in the videotape," Fieger said. "It's not an accident. It's not a mistake. There was no altercation."
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Some day he's going to trip up and go to jail himself.
This is on the video?
wow.
That cop needs some prison time.
Thankfully there’s video!
So that means he’ll need to stall on the release of the tape, if he’s lying.
This is the first I have heard about a reality TV crew, that changes a lot.
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I am awaiting the apologies of the folks who ripped me for my comments about this yesterday. Please man up and not be a liberal.
Fixed that. The rest is dead on IMHO.
Well, yeah. Jeff has his problems doesn’t he.
I don’t know what the truth is here, but the police could’ve handled things differently so that an innocent little girl would not have been caught in the middle. And, yes, the suspect deserves blame, too, if he is guilty of the crime, because he invited trouble.
This is heartbreaking.
http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/14/more-militarized-than-the-mili
"Most American police SWAT teams probably have fewer restrictions on conducting forced entry raids than do US forces in Afghanistan."
Cops lied, a child died?
I wouldn’t put too much faith in any statement by Fieger. If he said the sun rose today, I would check if it was important that it had.
Good luck with that. The bootlickers never admit their wrong and side with the cop ALWAYS!
If this is true, I shall be chewing on some pretty tough crow.
Sad story.
The family is partially to blame IF they knowingly allowed a murder suspect to stay in their house. I really don’t know of any of the details.
Either way, it’s a sad story.
I think Fieger is an effective lawyer . There is no reason I should trust him ,I am not paying him . There is also no reason to trust the government lawyers or police making public statements , and we do pay them and unlike Fieger , they have a sworn duty to the uphold public trust by serving and protecting . When one of them is goes wrong or makes a mistake , it is their duty to investigate like every other case . Yeah , right , who thinks thats how they do it ?
Not enough to satisfy me. May he wish to run an ethical law practice.
It’s obama’s fault.
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