I agree. If I wasn't married and twice her age, I'd look into why I don't see any family information in her online biography.
Posted on 05/29/2012 5:05:41 AM PDT by marktwain
While Army Sgt. Matthew Corrigan was sound asleep inside his Northwest D.C. home, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was preparing to launch a full-scale invasion of his home. SWAT and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) teams spent four hours readying the assault on the English basement apartment in the middle of the snowstorm of the century.
(This is part two of a four part series on Sgt. Corrigan's case. Click here to read the first story.)
The police arrested the veteran of the Iraq war and searched his house without a warrant, not to protect the public from a terrorist or stop a crime in progress, but to rouse a sleeping man the police thought might have an unregistered gun in his home.
It all started a few hours earlier on Feb. 2, 2010, when Sgt. Corrigan called the National Veterans Crisis Hotline for advice on sleeping because of nightmares from his year training Iraqi soldiers to look for IEDs in Fallujah. Without his permission, the operator, Beth, called 911 and reported Sgt. Corrigan “has a gun and wants to kill himself.”
According to a transcript of the 911 recording, Beth told the cops that, “The gun’s actually on his lap.” The drill sergeant told me he said nothing of the kind, and his two pistols and rifle were hidden under clothes and in closets, to avoid theft.
So around midnight, the police arrived at the row house at 2408 N. Capitol Street. Over the next two hours, several emergency response team units were called to the scene, calling in many cops from home.
Police memos from that night describe the situation as involving a man who is, “threatening to shoot himself,” but “doesn’t want to hurt anybody.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Emily is awesome! She’s single-handedly making the DC tinhorn dictators squirm over their war on guns.
Stories like this make me wonder about what we have allowed America to become.1984 and Animal Farm were just stories we read in public school but it seems the enemy has determined to make them and the Road to Serfdom and the Prince come to life.Only God can restore what the cankerworm has eaten.
It is good to know there is one reporter in the MSM that does investigate and report government abuses.
We need 100s more across the country that do the same work and the results are published.
I hope that guy gets his $500,000 in the law suit. He deserves every penny.
I agree. If I wasn't married and twice her age, I'd look into why I don't see any family information in her online biography.
One question:
Who the hell is this veteran hating “Beth” and how can she be arrested, sued and fired from her ‘job’?
In February, Sgt. Corrigan filed a civil suit against the District asking for a minimum of $500,000 in damages for violating his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. His attorney, Mr. Gardiner, intends to add some of the individual officers to the suit when they are identified in discovery.He shouldn't be suing just the city, but also the National Veterans Crisis Hotline. Many, many people, at many levels of government, should be fired over this, and have their cushy pensions stripped away. Of course that won't happen. But that's what should happen.
They've passed those and are heading right to Kafka's "The Trial".
Guys,
This doesn’t pass the smell test:
1. Why would a veteran call a “crisis hotline” for trouble sleeping? That is just silly, you call those hotlines for help with suicidal thoughts.
2. Why would a veteran who had troubles sleeping be talking about the guns he had, especially living in the Washington DC anti-gun capitol?
I know those crisis hotline centers records all their calls. I’d bet this was a suicidal veteran and the cops may have saved his life.
At least they didn’t kill his dog!
IIRC, there's material out there that has a "PTSD Helpline" which is (or redirects) to the above mentioned crisis hotline.
I can't say why he called it for sleeping, though having dealt with insomnia myself I can say that it does wear on you. Also, having only had night terrors once or twice I can say that's a creepy/unsettling experience that would DEFINITELY have me looking for help if they occurred with any level of frequency.
2. Why would a veteran who had troubles sleeping be talking about the guns he had, especially living in the Washington DC anti-gun capitol?
One answer:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
I'll say that after I got back from Iraq in 2008, I was very much aware of how the country [domestically] is arrayed against the Constitutions (Federal & State) and looking into remedies it seems that to challenge a contra-constitutional statute one needs to violate it in order to gain "standing."
Because they asked.
He deserves it, but the 911 operator and PD should pay it, not taxpayers.
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