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As Number of Police Raids Increase, So Do Questions
New York Times ^ | 5/16/1998 | Michael Cooper

Posted on 05/09/2007 12:00:34 PM PDT by dashing doofus

EW YORK -- Mary and Cornelius Jefferson were turning in for the night last June 24 when they heard the deafening boom of a battering ram tearing the front door of their Bronx apartment from its hinges.

"They kept on banging until the whole door had splintered," said Mrs. Jefferson, 63. "I thought they were coming to rob us, coming to kill us."

When the door gave way, it was not robbers but police officers who burst in, armed with pistols and a search warrant. The warrant -- based on the word of a paid confidential informer with a criminal record -- told of a young Hispanic man who was selling cocaine from the apartment. Instead the police found a terrified couple in their 60s, living in a meticulous apartment where plastic slipcovers protect the sofas and diplomas and awards line the walls

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To: THEUPMAN

Nobody would. And that’s why he’d be worse. Because he’d do nothing but take the ‘democrat lite’ party even further to the left, in fact it would be unrecognizable after a few years. Hillary! would at least inspire hatred and a desire to fight her (actually, THEM, since Bill’s in the equation).


81 posted on 05/11/2007 11:59:12 AM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (It's always open season on RHINOs(yes, I use an "H" in it))
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To: Unassuaged
Has anyone here ever seen statistics on how many police officers have been shot during a “no-knock” raid?

More often than not, they wind up shooting themselves and trying to blame it on the occupants.

82 posted on 05/11/2007 5:57:27 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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