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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," . . .
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You’re kidding?
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....
>> Damn good thing he didn’t have a dog!
Damn good thing he wasn’t a shift-working Marine.
that would drive me nuts
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Ahhh ... an idea for reducing the abuse, tell the invading cops that you are a reporter!
That would be one HUGE bite taken... it might also help end the war on gun owners, as well.
And you assume I’m not nuts because...?
I have no idea. I know I am nuts
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.
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
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