Posted on 08/09/2008 10:50:27 AM PDT by mdefranc
Prince George's County police Chief Melvin C. High said yesterday that a suburban Washington mayor and his wife were "innocent victims of drug traffickers"....
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I agree. The police and their zealotry to conduct these brutish raids - apparently with the goal of terrorizing people and killing pets - does damned little to restrain the illegal drug trade. It does however continue to qualify the jackboots participating in medals, commendations and Federal grants.
Since it was the police who brought the drugs to the suburb, and personally delivered them to the mayor's house without his knowledge, the Chief's statememt is technically accurate.
Exactly.
If the police had simply showed up with a proper warrant instead of playing “special forces”, everyone would have been fine, and their dogs would still be alive. In addition they would have still gotten the perps.
There is simply NO excuse for what happened.
The only reason this story is getting any notice is because it was the Mayor. This happens to many other people who are sacrificed by the prosecutors rather than the DA admitting they were wrong.
Not really a comment on the subject matter, but if they are married, shouldn't her last name be "Calvo"
Who names their child Cheye and Trinity?
Is the name "Cheye" a play on name "Che"
Their parents must be a set of long hair aging hippies
They were attacked by government agents and forced to watch their dogs being murdered over a pound of pot that wasn’t even theirs. Do their names matter?
The appearance and manner of Calvo and Tomsic are very, very clean-cut. I think your speculation is far off the mark.
“innocent victims of drug traffickers”
LOL - They are victims of an out of control militarized police force. This crap has expanded throughout the country and these attacks and victimization of the people police are supposed to supposedly “protect and serve” are happening daily nationwide. We only hear about this one because of the mayor. We hear a bit about the ones where the wrong house was victimized, and the offenders on MY freakin payroll get MEDALS for it.
Stop the militarization of our police forces!
Those are the dog’s names. The mayor and wife are not hippies. See previous photos on other threads.
Yep, and when the mayor is finally done with him and the others responsible, he’ll regret it even more I’ll wager.
"Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo (right) and his wife Trinity Tomsic talk during a news conference outside their Prince George's County home, which was raided last week. (Sun photo by Lloyd Fox / August 7, 2008)"
Do their names matter?
Like I said, it was not a comment on the subject matter, but I find it a strange that people who are married don't take the same name. As far as I know only progressives, liberals, think it's OK to flaunt traditional marriage.
If he is a flaming moonbat, which I have no idea if he is, the WOD has found a mark that maybe the MSM will pay attention to
When No knocks, at the wrong address happens: dog killing, tazer grandma, frighten children, arrest your family LEO assault raids poor people, redneck or your average Joe Citizen, the MSM never seem to report it
It seems to me that these so called police units have gotten more than out of control.
Why in the name of all that is sacred to America do we need overly armed men in black ski masks breaking into citizens homes with shoot first orders.
These units are openly violating the constitution.
Ever since the RICO laws were enacted many law enforcement officials see these laws as ways to equip their departments with car's and equipment they can not afford.
It is time to repeal the RICO laws and the sooner the better.
Yeah, it sucks that the general population has to wait until the failed drug war and SWAT abuse hits a mayor to actually care about it. But to be fair, a lot of us have been outraged about it for years.
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Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo (right) and his wife Trinity Tomsic talk during a news conference outside their Prince George's County home, which was raided last week. (Sun photo by Lloyd Fox / August 7, 2008)
That's my source for my comment
Is the Baltimore Sun wrong?
Get a grip. Cheye is a take on Cheyenne.
I said their parents were "maybe" hippies because of the names they gave their children
Yeah, clean cut people never smoke dope < / s>
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