Cops Admit To Planting Marijuana on 92 Year Old Woman Killed

payitforward · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 20

Here's a story that curdeled my whey...

Cops Admit To Planting Marijuana on 92 Year Old Woman Killed in Botched Drug Raid
By: Nicole Belle on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 3:15 PM - PDT

MPP:

Two police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid last fall. A third officer still faces charges.[..]

The charges followed a Nov. 21 "no-knock" drug raid on the home of Kathryn Johnston, 92. An informant had described buying drugs from a dealer there, police said. When the officers burst in without warning, Johnston fired at them, and they fired back, killing her.

Fulton County prosecutor Peter Johnson said that the officers involved in Johnston's death fired 39 shots, striking her five or six times, including a fatal blow to the chest.

He said Johnston fired only once through her door and didn't hit any of the officers. That means the officers who were wounded likely were hit by their own colleagues, he said.[..]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Yonette Sam-Buchanan said Thursday that although the officers found no drugs in Johnston's home, Smith planted three bags of marijuana in the home as part of a cover story.

The case raised serious questions about no-knock warrants and whether the officers followed proper procedures.
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I'm at a loss for words. Raises some serious questions indeed. This shit happens everyday and has become SOP.
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David · Bard Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 1261

Brother I share your sadness, because this actually happens.

Take the guns away from them BASTARDS. Can you believe they want to arm our pigs. Evil or Very Mad

**Brother Adam** · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

What do you mean arm them? They have armored personnel carriers with battering rams, police trained in military tactics wearing body armor, masks, and carrying automatic weapons, grenade/smoke launchers, and all sorts of heavy firepower. They train with military tactics in government training facilities all for the purpose of attacking free citizens of the US. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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-James Madison

Police officers acquitted for beating a 64 yr old man recently in New Orleans. In the words of their defense attorney "all he had to do was comply"....and they wouldn't have fractured his face.

**aeroplane** · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

!"*!!!¤$%#!!!$$$!!! Evil or Very Mad

I don't know where to begin on this one because the whole thing is so dekcuf-up!

It's not just that this stupid do not knock order was bound to result in a tragedy like this...

It's not just that the cops are crooked and will probably get off with a slap on the wrist...

It's not even that 39 bullets were fired like in a Hollywood movie...

It's not just that the pigs would try to justify murder by placing 3 bags of pot next to grandma's defenceless corpse...

But it is also that Amerika's 'top cop' Gonzalez is setting an example that makes this type of crime permissible.

And that's only scratching the surface of what's wrong here... Exclamation

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