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esmio06posted this in a response on a friend's page, but thought i should topic it too...
it is time that something is done and cops are made accountable. they are enforcers of the law, not the law itself.
I am sick to death of the way that cops are regarded by the courts as above the law.
recently a guy was given a ticket by a cop who ran a red light when the guy honked his horn at the cop.
The court upheld the ticket and warned the citizen not to correct the police.
If this is not fixed soon, the people need to rise up and remind this country that we are THE PEOPLE that the founding fathers were talking about.
I know this case is probably not that extreme because a mistake and firing back when she opened fire is tragic, but not the same as corruption. Who s at fault here, the officers or the dispatcher? there definitely needs to be a procedure for going into a house that is smarter than kicking open the door and expecting not to be fired upon.
My proposal is simple:
A new constitutional ammendment:
Any police officer who comits a crime in the name of police, be it purgory to get a conviction, extorting a business, or any form of corruption should be guilty of high treason.
A crime committed by law enforcement underminds the very fabric of society. If people have no faith in the law, the society will crumble and thus the police and courts who erode this faith are guilty of treason against that nation.
High treason carries a death sentance in most countries. Thus, they shuold be publicly executed for their crimes.
Woman, 92, fatally shot as 3 Atlanta officers wounded
By JEFFRY SCOTT, S.A. REID
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/21/06
A 92-year-old woman was killed after she shot three Atlanta narcotics officers Tuesday night when they broke down the front door of her home trying to serve a search warrant, police said.
One officer was hit in the arm, one was struck in the shoulder, and one was shot in the thigh. All were rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where they were in stable condition late Tuesday night. Police did not release their identities.
Atlanta assistant police Chief Alan Dreher, in a news conference outside the hospital emergency room, declined to confirm the identity of the woman, but he said the warrant was served at the correct address. He said he did not know what name was on the warrant. He said the woman was the only one in the home at the time.
Sarah C. Dozier identified the dead woman as her aunt, Kathryn Johnston. Dozier said she had been looking forward to going to her aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner as she does every year.
Dozier said she talked to her aunt every day and the conversation was often about crime in the neighborhood.
"Every window in her home and every door on her home has burglar bars," said Dozier. "I talked to her the other day about a 72-year-old who was raped. I know she was just scared."( more warm and fuzzies here... )
Comparison to DeKalb shootings
"The same thing is happening here as is going on in DeKalb County," said neighbor Tony Torrance, making a reference to 12 police shootings in the neighboring county this year. "Police are shooting people. They aren't following procedure."
The shooting came on the same day the district attorney in DeKalb announced she would ask for a grand jury to review Police Department investigations of a string of deadly police shootings there this year.
Atlanta police declined to say what they were searching for when they went to Johnston's home. The woman's niece, Dozier, who lives in Fayette County, said she had yet to be told by police that her aunt was dead even though police had called a news conference and talked to reporters outside Grady Memorial Hospital.
"I had to hear she had been shot on TV," said Dozier, who said she wants a lot of questions answered and plans to hire a lawyer to get that information from police.
cross posted a few places
"As far as I'm concerned, they shot her down like a dog," she said.
article
it is time that something is done and cops are made accountable. they are enforcers of the law, not the law itself.
I am sick to death of the way that cops are regarded by the courts as above the law.
recently a guy was given a ticket by a cop who ran a red light when the guy honked his horn at the cop.
The court upheld the ticket and warned the citizen not to correct the police.
If this is not fixed soon, the people need to rise up and remind this country that we are THE PEOPLE that the founding fathers were talking about.
I know this case is probably not that extreme because a mistake and firing back when she opened fire is tragic, but not the same as corruption. Who s at fault here, the officers or the dispatcher? there definitely needs to be a procedure for going into a house that is smarter than kicking open the door and expecting not to be fired upon.
My proposal is simple:
A new constitutional ammendment:
Any police officer who comits a crime in the name of police, be it purgory to get a conviction, extorting a business, or any form of corruption should be guilty of high treason.
A crime committed by law enforcement underminds the very fabric of society. If people have no faith in the law, the society will crumble and thus the police and courts who erode this faith are guilty of treason against that nation.
High treason carries a death sentance in most countries. Thus, they shuold be publicly executed for their crimes.
Woman, 92, fatally shot as 3 Atlanta officers wounded
By JEFFRY SCOTT, S.A. REID
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 11/21/06
A 92-year-old woman was killed after she shot three Atlanta narcotics officers Tuesday night when they broke down the front door of her home trying to serve a search warrant, police said.
One officer was hit in the arm, one was struck in the shoulder, and one was shot in the thigh. All were rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where they were in stable condition late Tuesday night. Police did not release their identities.
Atlanta assistant police Chief Alan Dreher, in a news conference outside the hospital emergency room, declined to confirm the identity of the woman, but he said the warrant was served at the correct address. He said he did not know what name was on the warrant. He said the woman was the only one in the home at the time.
Sarah C. Dozier identified the dead woman as her aunt, Kathryn Johnston. Dozier said she had been looking forward to going to her aunt's house for Thanksgiving dinner as she does every year.
Dozier said she talked to her aunt every day and the conversation was often about crime in the neighborhood.
"Every window in her home and every door on her home has burglar bars," said Dozier. "I talked to her the other day about a 72-year-old who was raped. I know she was just scared."( more warm and fuzzies here... )
Comparison to DeKalb shootings
"The same thing is happening here as is going on in DeKalb County," said neighbor Tony Torrance, making a reference to 12 police shootings in the neighboring county this year. "Police are shooting people. They aren't following procedure."
The shooting came on the same day the district attorney in DeKalb announced she would ask for a grand jury to review Police Department investigations of a string of deadly police shootings there this year.
Atlanta police declined to say what they were searching for when they went to Johnston's home. The woman's niece, Dozier, who lives in Fayette County, said she had yet to be told by police that her aunt was dead even though police had called a news conference and talked to reporters outside Grady Memorial Hospital.
"I had to hear she had been shot on TV," said Dozier, who said she wants a lot of questions answered and plans to hire a lawyer to get that information from police.
cross posted a few places
"As far as I'm concerned, they shot her down like a dog," she said.
article
