Posted on 10/16/2014 1:09:31 PM PDT by marktwain
Nashville Police Chief: Secret Service Tried to Fool Armed Homeowner with Fake Search Warrant By Robert Farago on October 16, 2014
“Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson recently sent a letter to Congress alleging that Secret Service agents asked Nashville police to falsify a warrant so that the agents could search the home of a Nashville resident who had posted about President Obama on Facebook,” benswann.com reports. More specifically, “in January of 2013, Secret Service agents working out of the Nashville field office visited the home of the resident who made the Facebook postings and knocked on his door. Then, an agent called local police and asked for backup, stating that the individual was refusing to let them in without a warrant and appeared to be armed. When Nashville police arrived . . .
they informed the Secret Service agents that the man in question is a licensed gun owner, did not violate the law, and that a warrant would be required in order to investigate further. Chief Anderson said in his letter, “one of the agents then asked a [Nashville police] sergeant to ‘wave a piece of paper’ in an apparent effort to dupe the resident into thinking that they indeed had a warrant.” Faced with a request to violate their oath of office and the rights of a citizen, the officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department flatly refused and left the scene.
No word as to the ultimate fate of the Facebook poster, and no blowback for the Secret Service officers looking to cut Constitutional corners. And now that I think of it . . .
How did the Facebook poster “appear to be armed,” exactly? Also note: Volunteer State citizens don’t need a license to buy a firearm. And there’s no firearms registration. So how did the Nashville cops know the unidentified resident was armed? And the cops just left? That doesn’t sound like normal police procedure to me – especially when the Secret Service made the call.
There’s more to this story than meets the eye. We’ll dig around a bit.
“Time to fire those responsible.”
The C-in-C and his key associate in crime, the outgoing Atty Gen’l., have set the standard and tone for such encounters w. the private citizenry.
can’t the hero of benghazi just unfriend him?
The mayor of Ferguson should have sent someone to investigate the shooting.
Posted what? I'd like to see that.
There were also reports she was killed AFTER her child was extracted from the car.
I do agree with your point. The press and many in the government aim to discourage gun ownership.
Why are government officials so ruthlessly efficient (not the same as effective) when they’re doing things they aren’t supposed to and not when they’re doing the jobs for which their agencies were created.
“Since you are allowed to lie to me I have nothing to say to you. Show me your warrant or get off my property. Take it up with my lawyer.”
Bingo!!!
I'm going to guess they meant he's got a CCW.
Time to prosecute those responsible. Malfeasance in office should land the offenders in prison.
Agreed!
This handbasket apparently has turbo
Maybe, but I doubt it. In any case it’s in his home, so a CCW permit is irrelevant. Like I said I’ve seen many stories referring to guns as “licensed” when they mean “legal”.
Assume he’s got a CCW. Then the feds plug his name into the BATFE Form 4473 database. Yep, he owns guns all right.
That could happen to millions of us.
Howcum no publicity from the SS about his Facebook posts? Methinks they were not of a threatening nature. Insulting, yes probably, but if that earns you a doorknock from the SS, then we are already under dictatorship.
Is the reporting address not redacted?
“I strongly suspect that you don’t need a “license” to own a gun in TN.”
No, you don’t. They probably meant that he had a CCW.
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