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1 posted on 01/13/2003 6:43:29 PM PST by Leisler
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To: Leisler
Well, I'll be...

Something that finally makes sense.

That's really the essense of it: If you want to serve a warrant, wear a uniform. Show me the warrant. Bust in the door and you'll get shot like any other burglar.

Wow.
2 posted on 01/13/2003 6:46:10 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Leisler
Detectives are often worried about giving drug dealers time to flush drugs down toilets

Any amount of drugs that can be flushed down a toilet isn't worth a raid.

3 posted on 01/13/2003 6:48:18 PM PST by Ramius
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To: Travis McGee
Read this account of terrible police work.
5 posted on 01/13/2003 6:53:05 PM PST by maica
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To: Leisler
And now the cops should be jailed for breaking and entering.
6 posted on 01/13/2003 6:53:15 PM PST by per loin
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To: Leisler; humblegunner; TexasCowboy; Squantos; Shooter 2.5
Damn good job. Anyone kicking my door in can expect the same (or worse).


Stay safe; stay armed.
Eaker Freeper Status

10 posted on 01/13/2003 7:02:20 PM PST by Eaker (Where did I leave the keys to the snow plow ma????)
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To: Leisler
Good news for a citizen who defended his home from these goons who happened to wear badges. No-knock raids are never acceptable in a free society, as the lives of citizens are no less important than the lives of policemen. To illustrate how much damage has been wrought, criminals have learned how to play the game; home invaders now routinely shout "Police!" as they kick down their victims' doors.
13 posted on 01/13/2003 7:11:26 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Leisler
Cauthorne needs to get the Hell out of Dodge...

His life and freedom are forfeit if he stays where these JBT's can get to him.

17 posted on 01/13/2003 7:17:04 PM PST by DWSUWF
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To: Leisler
Someday maybe there won't be any cops to break down doors. Then all these guys cookin 'caine in the basement can do whatever they want, selling the drugs to your kids, maybe raping your women, and probably killing your parents.

Someday then maybe some on FR will most probably be happy with this picture. God knows then you won't have the cops to gripe about.

But then you probably won't have much of anything else, either.

21 posted on 01/13/2003 7:33:31 PM PST by tenthirteen
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"Legal documents also point out other problems that were identified in connection with the raid. For instance, crime lab technicians were told not to take photographs of the drugs, and there is no record of where the drugs were recovered in the house. "

Maybe because they were planted and not "recovered"?
33 posted on 01/13/2003 8:52:43 PM PST by chaosagent
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Its pretty hard to believe the cops told the truth about not announcing.

There must be an audio or video tape for that to have happened.

39 posted on 01/13/2003 10:02:20 PM PST by Rome2000
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To: Leisler
Bump
41 posted on 01/13/2003 10:22:46 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Giant Clearance Sale: Used "Tag Lines". Buy One, Get One Free! Inquire Within)
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To: Leisler
And just when I begin to lose hope..

amen.

50 posted on 01/13/2003 11:00:19 PM PST by Jhoffa_ ("Are all men from the future, loud mouthed braggards?" - "Nope, Just me baby.. ")
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To: Leisler
The most amazing part of this story is that it happened in Baltimore. I'm not amazed that the police botched the raid, and I'm not amazed that they appear (to me) to have fabricated the finding of drugs. I'm amazed that the prosecutor dropped the charges. I'm even more amazed that the homeowner was alive, after the raid, to be charged.
68 posted on 01/14/2003 7:35:45 AM PST by ArrogantBustard
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Baltimore prosecutors today dropped attempted murder and first-degree assault charges against a man who shot four police detectives during a November drug raid, saying they believe Lewis S. Cauthorne acted in self-defense when he wounded the officers as they barged into his home.

This is exactly what needs to happen to end the plague of black pajama ninja wannabe Gestapo agents who break into innocent Americans homes under the guise of a "drug bust".

If you're a true American sitting on a jury on one of these cases ... Vote for aquittal. If you're a judge find ... the home protector innocent. If you're a lawyer ... take the case for free.

69 posted on 01/14/2003 7:48:00 AM PST by clamper1797
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police are often hesitant to knock and tell residents that they are police officers

Not too swift. Actually, the real problem is the wide spread proliferation of firearms. If the homeowner hadn't been armed, no one would have been shot. /Sarcasm

71 posted on 01/14/2003 7:57:51 AM PST by paul51
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To: Leisler
Detectives are often worried about giving drug dealers time to flush drugs down toilets

This excuse is a crock. Taking a water sample from a toilet and determining whether some substance was recently flushed therein is a trivial problem of chemical forensics.

75 posted on 01/14/2003 10:09:14 AM PST by steve-b
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Acting Police Commissioner John McEntee said today he opposed the decision by prosecutors. "I would have liked to have seen all available charges prosecuted," he said.

Yeah, I bet you would, arsehole. Your thugs got EXACTLY what they deserved.

79 posted on 01/15/2003 9:17:40 AM PST by Henrietta
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To: Leisler
bump for reference later
80 posted on 01/15/2003 9:50:31 AM PST by Lloyd227
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To: Leisler

Unfortunately, the police were rewarded for assaulting an innocent man and his family:

4 city police officers presented certificates for valor
Each was shot during November drug raid
May 21, 2003|By Del Quentin Wilber | Del Quentin Wilber,SUN STAFF

Four Baltimore police officers who were shot and wounded during a botched drug raid last year received certificates yesterday for earning one of the department’s highest awards: the Citation of Valor.

The officers, who had received their medals from former Police Commissioner Edward T. Norris before he left the department in December, were honored during the city department’s Medal Day ceremony at the War Memorial Building across from City Hall. Norris is now state police superintendent.

Detectives Robert J. Adams and Michael H. Smith, and Officers James S. Guzie and Steven Henson were shot Nov. 19 when they stormed into the North Baltimore house of Lewis S. Cauthorne.

Cauthorne, 26, was charged with four counts of attempted murder for opening fire on the officers. But prosecutors dropped the charges in January after determining the officers did not announce they were police.

The 10 members of the police team were unable to reach a consensus on what happened. At least five of the officers said they couldn’t remember what - if anything - was spoken in the tense moments before the raid, according to law enforcement documents.

State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy said in January that questions surrounding the raid led her to believe that “Mr. Cauthorne was acting in self-defense” when he sprayed his house with bullets from a stolen .45-caliber handgun.

The presentation of the certificates comes as detectives have not officially completed their report on the raid, police officials said yesterday.

The department denied a Maryland Public Information Act request by The Sun in February to inspect the department’s reports, saying there was “an open Internal Affairs investigation” of the shooting.

Police officials yesterday said that internal probe had not begun. In a narrative of the raid published in the award ceremony program, police wrote that the officers announced their presence.

“Upon arriving at the front door, members of the raiding party knocked several times and announced, `Police Search Warrant,’” the program says.

Cauthorne has said he blindly opened fire on the officers from behind a wall because he thought his family was in danger and did not know that police had smashed into his house.

The raid yielded a stolen handgun, six bags with trace amounts of marijuana, empty vials, a razor with cocaine residue and two scales, police said at the time.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-05-21/news/0305210039_1_raid-police-search-police-officers


81 posted on 05/23/2013 8:24:12 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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