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To: TaxRelief
The police don't start randomly shooting on these raids.

Actually they do.

Sometimes they murder people on purpose in order to steal their land.

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79 posted on 12/11/2008 6:28:52 AM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: Lurker
Donald Scott
Age 62 at the time of his death at his home in Malibu, CA. on October 2, 1992.
Scott and his wife, Frances Plante, were awakened by violent pounding at the door on the morning of October 2, 1992. As Frances attempted to open the door, a narcotics task force from the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. burst into the home, weapons in hand.
Frances was pushed forcefully from the door at gun point. She cried out, “Don’t shoot me, don’t kill me!” With a gun aimed at her head, Frances looked to her right and saw Donald charging into the room, waving a revolver above his head. She heard a deputy shout, “Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Put the gun down!” As Scott was doing so, Frances heard three gun shots ring out, apparently from two sources.
Her husband was killed instantly.
Scott was a millionaire who owned 250 acres of breathtakingly beautiful land that was adjacent to federal park lands. Attempts had been made by the feds to buy the property, but Scott was not interested in selling. Claims that there might be pot growing on the land, made by agents who did aerial surveillance, were used to get a search warrant.
An official inquiry suggested that agents had hoped this raid would lead to asset forfeiture of the property Scott would not sell. The coroner’s report listed the cause of death as a homicide. No marijuana was found. Scott did not even smoke it. In January, 2000, the Scott family won a $5 million wrongful death settlement from the government over the shooting.

Thank you, very much ....I was looking for that.

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103 posted on 12/11/2008 8:59:57 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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To: Lurker

Waving your gun around is not a good idea. That is not “random”.


124 posted on 12/11/2008 12:02:05 PM PST by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: Lurker
"Sometimes they murder people on purpose in order to steal their land."

Or sometimes people have twitchy trigger fingers. Ooooops.

Salvatore Culosi, Jr.

January 24, 2006—VA

A SWAT team in Fairfax County, Virginia serves a warrant on Culosi, an optometrist who is suspected of running a sports gambling pool with friends.

As the team surrounds him, one officer's weapon accidentally discharges, striking Culosi in the chest and killing him.

Culosi had no criminal record, no history of violence, and police found no weapons in his home.

Fairfax officials later tell the Washington Post that nearly all of the county's search warrants are executed with a SWAT team, even document searches.

132 posted on 12/11/2008 1:28:39 PM PST by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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