| Police try to justify home invasion,; shooting of mayor's two dogs--UPDATE | |
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| Quasimodo | Sep 5 2008, 12:02 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402746.html Killing of Mayor's 2 Dogs Justified, Pr. George's Finds Officers in Raid Threatened, Sheriff Says By Rosalind S. Helderman and Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, September 5, 2008; The Prince George's County Sheriff's Office has concluded in an internal review that its deputies were justified when they shot and killed two dogs belonging to the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a July drug raid, Sheriff Michael Jackson said yesterday. The sheriff said that one dog was engaging an officer and that the other was running toward a second officer at the time the black Labs were shot, but the ruling did not satisfy the mayor, who said the inquiry was incomplete and misleading. (snip) A sheriff's department SWAT team and county police narcotics officers burst into the mayor's home July 29 after police intercepted a 32-pound package of marijuana addressed to Trinity Tomsic, Calvo's wife. Police cleared Calvo and Tomsic of wrongdoing, saying they were victims of a drug smuggling scheme in which drug-filled packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients were intercepted by a FedEx deliveryman. Jackson said that the county attorney and the Sheriff's Office's internal affairs division are reviewing the department's internal findings in response to a formal complaint lodged by the couple and that he would provide further details when those reviews were completed. But, he said, the investigation has concluded "the guys did what they were supposed to do." "They had a legitimate court order to be there," he said. "Unfortunately, we had to engage the animals, but that engagement was justified." Calvo rejected Jackson's conclusions yesterday, saying sheriff's deputies have not interviewed him or his mother-in-law about their accounts of the incident. Both were home at the time of the raid. Their arms were bound behind their backs, and they were questioned about the package while the body of one dog lay nearby. "The fact that they've done an internal review without contacting the victims of their raid, the people whose house they stormed through, shows they're not very interested in the actual facts," he said. (snip) "The report [autopsy report on the dogs] confirms what me and my family saw, heard and lived and makes it clear the sheriff was not telling the truth," Calvo said. He said the number of gunshot wounds to the two dogs indicates that the violence used in the raid was "unbelievably excessive." (snip) Calvo said he hopes an FBI investigation into the raid will examine other issues, including why officers did not know they were raiding the home of a mayor and why Prince George's police said at first that they had been given a "no knock" warrant to enter the home without announcing their presence but then said they had not. (snip) [By all means, I hope they get an FBI investigation. But the FBI better also explain why it is willing to investigate a no-knock raid gone wrong in Maryland but not in Durham; and why it is unwilling to investigate hate crimes in Durham; witness intimidation; falsified police warrant requests; conspiracy to deny persons their civil rights under color of law; etc. You may contact the writers of this article HERE : http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/rosalind+s.+helderman+and+aaron+c.+davis Edited by Quasimodo, Sep 5 2008, 12:04 AM.
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| I'mstillaRebel | Sep 5 2008, 03:15 PM Post #2 |
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Bump--this has fallen off of the current front page. I know we're all more interested in politics today. But, what brought us together in the first place was the incredible, open corruption of the Durham police and those who aided and abetted them. This is another crystal clear example of what is going on--and how much work it's going to take for good people to keep hammering away until we see some changes made. I wish Mayor Calvo and his family the very best. Every crooked DA that's disbarred, every out of control rogue cop who's fired--just makes it easier to get rid of the next one. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 6 2008, 12:08 AM Post #3 |
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. We need to take action. What kind of country do we want to live in? This case was beyond ridiculous and how many people that aren't prominent just have to live this type of treatment from out-of-control authorities? Some changes are in order. . |
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| DTownRes117341 | Sep 6 2008, 01:41 AM Post #4 |
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All this police violence over a harmless plant. |
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