Posted on 09/14/2011 8:32:03 PM PDT by SmithL
ALAMEDA --
Police and FBI agents arrested a drug suspect in Alameda on Wednesday, but not before mistakenly trying to raid a home across the street belonging to a network TV reporter and her political consultant husband.
Alameda and Martinez police, together with FBI agents, pounded on the door of CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens and her husband, Alex Clemens, at their home on Lina Avenue at about 7 a.m.
Alex Clemens, a political consultant and lobbyist in San Francisco, said he peered out the window and saw "four guns raised at my face." Several agents pulled him outside and put his hands behind his back, apparently preparing to handcuff him, he said.
He told them that his wife was upstairs nursing their 7-month-old daughter and mentioned that she was a correspondent for CBS News.
"That seemed to give the officers some pause," . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Idiots... This happens much too frequently.
And a political consultant? (D) or (R)?
Did they not have any dogs to shoot or something? I mean, what’s a raid without some killing some dogs! These Rambo wannabes gotta have a little fun out there.
I don’t suppose they shot his dog, did they?
Damn good thing he didn’t have a dog!
but didn't realize that Ung had sold the four-bedroom home to the Clemenses about three months agoDoncha just hate it when that happens?
Realized they weren't just jackbooting an ordinary citizen.
Most recently 2 weeks ago (3:30 AM) at my house...
He’s a lobbyist in San Francisco so he would probably have nobody to lobby if he was an (R).
Book her.
Bingo...
They’re luck they weren’t “accidentally” shot in the head by the police (who would of course been cleared of any wrongdoing if that had happened)
Oh snap...I just bought a home from a huge drug dealer and am housing my new baby in it....where’s the real estate dealer?
omg... Do tell!
Ahhhhh. The Friends of the Elite version of allah ackubar.
Automatic weapons in the hands of incompetents. This is what America has come to. Why don’t I feel safer?
These people did their homework about as well as Obama’s speech writer.
Sheriff deputies showed up at my place TWICE to arrest a previous tenant. They didn’t bother to check out the county sales records first. I live in Sonoma,Ca.
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