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Montanahunter420
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Botched Drug Raid Not the First
#6893799 - 05/09/07 01:34 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Kevin Rowson Reports
Two months before Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed during a botched drug raid at her home, another elderly Atlanta woman survived a very similar incident.
Frances Thompson, 80, was in her bedroom in her apartment at Simpson Landing when members of Atlanta Police Department’s Narcotics Team-1 battered in her door. Thompson said she was scared to death and grabbed a gun near her bed because she didn't know what was going on.
“I didn't have no idea but I was just hoping they wouldn't shoot me,” she said.
Fortunately, the officers didn’t shoot. They realized before it was too late that Frances Thompson’s gun was a toy gun. The toy gun used to be her son's. She said she keeps it in case someone breaks into her home.
One of Thompson's neighbors said she tried to warn one of the members of the narcotics team before they entered her apartment.
“I was trying to tell him there was an old lady that lived there”, Jeanette Benson said. She added that the officer told her to mind her own business.
Frances Thompson said three officers entered her apartment dressed in black and wearing masks.
“And they pointed those shotguns at me, those long ones” she said. One of the officers was Jason Smith.
Last week, Smith entered a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in a similar incident on Neal Street. Kathryn Johnston, 92, was shot and killed by narcotics officers serving a no-knock warrant at her home.
Smith’s attorney, John Garland, said the officers involved in the Thompson raid were shaken up by their near fatal mistake. He said the officers discussed the incident with Supervisor Sgt. Wilbert Stallings.
“They discussed among themselves how we're just going too fast here,” Garland said.
“We've got to slow down, we've got to watch these C.I.’s (confidential informants) or someone’s going to get hurt.”
Two months later, Kathryn Johnston was killed. She had a real gun, and fired off one errant round before officers returned fire. They fired 39 shots, five or six of which hit Johnston. One hit her in the chest and killed her.
Officer Smith and another officer, Gregg Junnier, entered guilty pleas to voluntary manslaughter in that case. They admitted to obtaining a search warrant based on lies about their confidential informant Alex White.
After learning about Kathryn Johnston’s death, Frances Thompson said she had second thoughts.
“What comes to mind is that it could have been me,” she said.
A search warrant affidavit said a confidential informant purchased drugs from a man named “Hollywood” at Johnston’s apartment. Garland said federal investigators looking into possible corruption in the Atlanta narcotics squad are well aware of the Thompson case.
According to a statement from Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington was unaware of the Thompson incident until asked about it by a reporter. Pennington has referred the case to federal investigators, and the Mayor's statement said she agreed with his decision.
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mushroomdelirium
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"They fired 39 shots, five or six of which hit Johnston. One hit her in the chest and killed her"
Talk about bad aim.
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xeallos
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Hey, an 8% ratio... I have read the pigs average around 12%, whereas assailants register between 2-6%...
Although it is sickening to even imagine these dipshit pigs firing 30 shotgun shells at a defenseless old woman as she sits up in bed scared for her life... jesus christ it makes me want to vomit just picturing the scene.
To see just how disturbingly widespread this phenomenon has become you can take a look at a map of compiled statistics put together by the CATO institute: http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
Most of this is the fine product of Radley Balko, who does an amazing job cataloging these ridiculous transgressions against innocent civilians day in and day out... you can see his personal blog here, where many of these updates happen as soon as he breaks them: http://www.theagitator.com/
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Le_Canard
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Quote:
jeverden said:
“And they pointed those shotguns at me, those long ones” she said. One of the officers was Jason Smith.
Last week, Smith entered a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in a similar incident on Neal Street. Kathryn Johnston, 92, was shot and killed by narcotics officers serving a no-knock warrant at her home.
And he's still doing drug raids? That's almost unbelievably stupid.
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Re: Botched Drug Raid Not the First [Re: Le_Canard]
#6894401 - 05/09/07 04:45 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Maybe it's prepairing us all for total police militirization. I reckon in the next few years you'll see alot more masked police with mp5's and shit. Armoured vehicles patroling the streets at night may sound a long way off but it's getting sooner and sooner... http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-police-armored-trucks,0,6807106.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Everybody will be a terrorist apart from the REAL terrorists.
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moon_glue
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Re: Botched Drug Raid Not the First [Re: psilosibling]
#6894604 - 05/09/07 05:50 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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if cops busted into my home and i thought they were people breaking in i would shoot every gooddamn one of them before they had a chance to do shit
a human being has the right to protect themselves on their own goddamn property
especially an elderly woman
if they had shot a 21 year old girl with a cute face this would be on every news channel for a month
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BlueFos
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Re: Botched Drug Raid Not the First [Re: xeallos]
#6896411 - 05/10/07 02:48 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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xeallos said: Although it is sickening to even imagine these dipshit pigs firing 30 shotgun shells at a defenseless old woman as she sits up in bed scared for her life... jesus christ it makes me want to vomit just picturing the scene.
Yah, and they even left out the part about the cops planting 3 bags of grass in the 92yr old ladies house...
Thank god this old woman made it out alive.
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Re: Botched Drug Raid Not the First [Re: Le_Canard]
#6896750 - 05/10/07 07:18 AM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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ToiletDuk said:
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jeverden said:
“And they pointed those shotguns at me, those long ones” she said. One of the officers was Jason Smith.
Last week, Smith entered a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in a similar incident on Neal Street. Kathryn Johnston, 92, was shot and killed by narcotics officers serving a no-knock warrant at her home.
And he's still doing drug raids? That's almost unbelievably stupid.
This article details a raid that he took part in two months prior to the raid in which Kathryn Johnston was killed.
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