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Raid mistakenly targets TV reporter's home
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/14/11 | Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Posted on 09/14/2011 8:32:03 PM PDT by SmithL

ALAMEDA --

Police and FBI agents arrested a drug suspect in Alameda on Wednesday, but not before mistakenly trying to raid a home across the street belonging to a network TV reporter and her political consultant husband.

Alameda and Martinez police, together with FBI agents, pounded on the door of CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens and her husband, Alex Clemens, at their home on Lina Avenue at about 7 a.m.

Alex Clemens, a political consultant and lobbyist in San Francisco, said he peered out the window and saw "four guns raised at my face." Several agents pulled him outside and put his hands behind his back, apparently preparing to handcuff him, he said.

He told them that his wife was upstairs nursing their 7-month-old daughter and mentioned that she was a correspondent for CBS News.

"That seemed to give the officers some pause," . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; policestate; raid; swatabuse; swatassholes
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To: null and void

You’re kidding?


41 posted on 09/15/2011 12:11:54 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: null and void

Two female cops?

Dude you could have scored. They must have found you attractive and the guy cop was probably their escort.

Gotta think fast on your feet buddy.

Maybe next time....


42 posted on 09/15/2011 12:14:58 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

>> Damn good thing he didn’t have a dog!

Damn good thing he wasn’t a shift-working Marine.


43 posted on 09/15/2011 12:19:00 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: null and void
boy, you have police at your door on a regular bases.

that would drive me nuts

44 posted on 09/15/2011 10:45:46 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: SmithL; Eyes Unclouded; Rodney King; Redcitizen; ellery; dcwusmc; Forgotten Amendments; ...
"Whoops... Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING

Click the link to be added to the "Whoops. Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING list.

45 posted on 09/15/2011 11:27:54 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Fledermaus
If you had ever read any of FreeDUwarrior's posts you would know the answer.
46 posted on 09/15/2011 11:44:13 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: SmithL

Ahhh ... an idea for reducing the abuse, tell the invading cops that you are a reporter!


47 posted on 09/15/2011 11:46:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

That would be one HUGE bite taken... it might also help end the war on gun owners, as well.


48 posted on 09/15/2011 11:47:32 AM PDT by dcwusmc (A FREE People have no sovereign save Almighty GOD!!! III OK We are EVERYWHERE)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

And you assume I’m not nuts because...?


49 posted on 09/15/2011 12:43:02 PM PDT by null and void (Day 968 of America's holiday from reality...)
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To: null and void

I have no idea. I know I am nuts


50 posted on 09/15/2011 2:09:54 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: dcwusmc
That would be one HUGE bite taken... it might also help end the war on gun owners, as well.

Yep. It would also take a huge financial bite out of many well connected people who depend on the WOD for a living - aka Drug War Whores.

That's the main reason it continues, IMO.

51 posted on 09/15/2011 9:49:22 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: miliantnutcase

Not idiots. Deliberate. There are people who are now openly advocating for SWAT to be used more frequently, to raise awareness about them, among other reasons.

One of them makes his case in the article linked here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2777757/posts


52 posted on 09/17/2011 11:27:03 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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