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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
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Even more intersting is having that 'informant' come forward saying the police told him to lie. The cops called him AFTER the shooting and told him what to say. One now has to wonder, why did these cops LIE to the judge to get a warrant, and why did they want the warrant in the first place?
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metr...hoot_html.html
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Originally Posted by uncle phil
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Regarding the case of the 92 year old woman in Georgia that shot three officers when they served their warrant, I just found this quote: "Dreher said the three drug officers "were well-trained" and had "served hundreds of warrants" over the years. Even though the officers were not required to knock before entering the house, they did, Dreher said.""
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brings it all into perspective for me...
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how about now?
And now?
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pb...YT02/611280302
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But in an interview broadcast Monday by the local Fox affiliate, the informant, whose identity was concealed, said he had never been to the house in question and had not bought drugs there. Ms. Johnston’s family has said that she lived alone.
“They were going to pay me just to cover it up,” he said in the interview, arranged after he placed a call to one of the station’s reporters on Thursday. “They called me immediately after the shooting to ask me, I mean to tell me, ‘This is what you need to do.’ ” He added that the officers told him explicitly that he was needed to protect their story.
In asking a judge for the no-knock warrant before the raid, the narcotics investigator named in the warrant, Jason R. Smith, had said it was needed because a drug dealer inside had several surveillance cameras and monitored them closely.
But Chief Pennington said it was not clear if that was true, either.
Once the search warrant was signed, three officers appeared at Ms. Johnston’s door with bulletproof vests and raid shields emblazoned with the word “police.” Department officials have insisted that the officers went to the correct address. They announced themselves as the police after cutting through the burglar bars and forcing down the door.
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Last edited by dksuddeth; 11-29-2006 at 02:40 AM..
Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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