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this kinda shit happens all day, every day to ordinary citizens.
if you don't have the money to hire a high-powered attorney, you're
screwed.
the whole system is messed up, they say 'if you can't afford an attorney,
one will be appointed'. what a crock of shit. believe me, you don't want to
go in front of a judge with a public 'defender', you'd be better off with a barber in a coma.
these poor people, i bet they don't even get any compensation for the
front door or the dogs!
SnS I seeen you r Post and man ohhh man you have to be blazed!!! LOL I took a while to think about this before posting up... This is my thought's. I have a dog and it would be absolutely devastating to loose him in such a crazy condition. Here is the Kicker to the whole story though this happens all the time. Search Warrants executed at wrong addresses whoops sorry!!! Go get a new door... After torching the people in the house throwing someones Grandmother on the floor WTF!!! Here we have a Politician which IMO he is just like your average LEO. Now he has a different opinion on the LAW but it takes a MAYOR to hit the news and open the eye's of Judges and Police BULLSHIT nothing will change at all... How many people who have 1/2 OZ or 20 Lbs in their house are in possession and will use a firearm against police... I do not believe it to be many at all... Here we have a situation were public acknowledgment is obviously present but how many worse cases went unknown? Here you had a few Sheriffs who thought they could be Supper Men because they were sent out to do what they are not trained for... Even if they are trained LEO special forces would throw your wife Mother Grandmother ect... on the floor Zip tie or handcuff and torture them over an herb... IMO I hope this will make some changes... Really thinking on the matter unfortunate it will not change at all... Evil Shit goes on everyday by LEO and civilians have to just deal w/ it we are used to it but the Politicians are not MD Sheriffs Dept "Will be working in ALASKA Tomorrow"... All due to the double standards that our society has adapted... We have Rights... LOL GL1
today they cleared the mayor of all wrong doing but stopped short of an apology. And then defended the raid! Are you F-ing kidding me? and yet Im the crazy one for thinking the great US is turning into a police state!
There is a MAJOR discussion going on at Topix: Your town. Your news. Your take. on this story with over 3000 post natiowide so far. The people who posted so far are absolutely furious with this story, and rightly so. Please join the discussion and lets keep this story alive as long as possible, so they can't sweep it under the carpet. This is a very very sad event, but it could be to our country's advantage to have had this happen to a Mayor and his family. After all, people don't listen to poor people of color when it happens to them. I am begging everyone to get involved in this discussion and let our feelings be known.
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LittleNut
BINGO!Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
Side notes - This is why you need good home security. Also every 'law abiding' citizen should carry a gun. :D
What would a gun do in that situation? Just more people killed...
Not if you had Granny from the Beverly Hillbilly's :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Spagett
That was from one of the stories posted on washingtonpost.com. Sounds very fishy, trying to blame delivery guys for it all. Using unknowing people for some kinda weird delivery system??? no way, that's insane.... sounds more like some kinda dirty setups by police that went bad when it involved a mayor, and they got some deliverymen as their scapegoats.Quote:
The county Sheriff's Office SWAT team and narcotics officers raided the home of Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, after intercepting a package addressed to her that was filled with 32 pounds of marijuana. During the raid, officers broke down Calvo's door and fatally shot the family's two black Labrador retrievers.
Police said the package was one of about a half-dozen retrieved by authorities in the past week along the route of a deliveryman in northern Prince George's. The packages contained a combined 417 pounds of marijuana valued at about $3.6 million.
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Calvo declined to comment. Timothy Maloney, an attorney for Calvo and Tomsic, said the arrests confirm that Tomsic was a "random victim of identity theft at the hands of major drug traffickers."
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Police had been tracking the package since a drug-sniffing dog in Arizona drew attention to it. Calvo has said law enforcement officers burst into his home moments after he picked up the package from his porch and brought it in. It had been left on the porch on the instructions of his mother-in-law by police posing as deliverymen. Calvo has said sheriff's deputies entered without knocking and began shooting immediately.
High said one of the men arrested was an independent contractor who worked as a package deliveryman. The police chief did not release the name of either man.
High and Maj. Mark Magaw, commander of the county's narcotics enforcement division, said the two suspects worked in tandem. The officials said that the deliveryman would drop off the package and that the other man would come by shortly thereafter and retrieve it.
At other times, the officials said, the suspects exchanged packages face to face in parking lots. In two instances, Magaw said, the deliveryman mistakenly took drugs to the wrong address, then went to the houses and asked for the packages.
He said police investigating the case uncovered a separate and parallel scheme to use the package delivery system to send marijuana. They arrested two other men yesterday in connection with that conspiracy and seized about 100 pounds of marijuana.
Home security is useless against police. So are guns. Mayor Calvo, as innocent as it appears he is, would still be DEAD right now if he had pulled a gun on the SWAT team that kicked down his door.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
DEAD.
With no chance to even say 'you have the wrong house'.
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Originally Posted by SouthernGuerilla
If the SWAT ever raided me and shot my 2 doggies I would rather NOT have a gun close by, because I would probably do somthing stupid and end up with life in prison.