Uncensored2008
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- Feb 8, 2011
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In another thread, the subject of armed robbery by law enforcement came up. Rather than derailing that thread, I decided to start a new thread on the practice of armed robbery by police and federal agencies.
Starting in the 1990's, the use of armed robbery by police became common. Using the euphemism of "civil asset forfeiture," law enforcement at all levels routinely rob the public at gunpoint and keep what they steal.
{The officers found the couples cash and a marbled-glass pipe that Boatright said was a gift for her sister-in-law, and escorted them across town to the police station. In a corner there, two tables were heaped with jewelry, DVD players, cell phones, and the like. According to the police report, Boatright and Henderson fit the profile of drug couriers: they were driving from Houston, a known point for distribution of illegal narcotics, to Linden, a known place to receive illegal narcotics. The report describes their children as possible decoys, meant to distract police as the couple breezed down the road, smoking marijuana. (None was found in the car, although Washington claimed to have smelled it.)
The countys district attorney, a fifty-seven-year-old woman with feathered Charlies Angels hair named Lynda K. Russell, arrived an hour later. Russell, who moonlighted locally as a country singer, told Henderson and Boatright that they had two options. They could face felony charges for money laundering and child endangerment, in which case they would go to jail and their children would be handed over to foster care. Or they could sign over their cash to the city of Tenaha, and get back on the road. No criminal charges shall be filed, a waiver she drafted read, and our children shall not be turned over to CPS, or Child Protective Services.
Where are we? Boatright remembers thinking. Is this some kind of foreign country, where theyre selling peoples kids off? Holding her sixteen-month-old on her hip, she broke down in tears.
Later, she learned that cash-for-freedom deals had become a point of pride for Tenaha, and that versions of the tactic were used across the country. Be safe and keep up the good work, the city marshal wrote to Washington, following a raft of complaints from out-of-town drivers who claimed that they had been stopped in Tenaha and stripped of cash, valuables, and, in at least one case, an infant child, without clear evidence of contraband.}
Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture : The New Yorker
The American police state is a violent and brutal place, the armed robbers have no concern for the health of their victims.
{In West Philadelphia last August, an elderly couple named Mary and Leon Adams were finishing breakfast when several vans filled with heavily armed police pulled up to their red brick home. An officer announced, Well give you ten minutes to get your things and vacate the property. The men surrounding their home had been authorized to enter, seize, and seal the premises, without any prior notice.
I was almost numb, Mary Adams, a sixty-eight-year-old grandmother with warm brown eyes and wavy russet hair, recalled. When I visited her this spring, she sat beside her seventy-year-old husband, who was being treated for pancreatic cancer, and was slumped with exhaustion .}
The Use and Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture | PoliceMisconduct.net
And we know that resistance during an armed robbery by police will get you killed.
{Dont shoot me! Dont kill me! screamed a terrified Frances Scott as heavily-armed men broke down the door of her home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight.
Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake by his wifes screams. Although he was groggy from sleep and the effects of a nightcap, and his vision was blurry because of recent cataract surgery, Scott grabbed a loaded revolver and hurried downstairs to defend his wife. A few seconds later he was dead, fatally shot by an intruder later identified as Gary Spencer.}
Remembering the Murder of Donald*Scott ? LewRockwell.com
The murderer, Gary Spencer is a Los Angeles Sheriffs Deputy.
Starting in the 1990's, the use of armed robbery by police became common. Using the euphemism of "civil asset forfeiture," law enforcement at all levels routinely rob the public at gunpoint and keep what they steal.
{The officers found the couples cash and a marbled-glass pipe that Boatright said was a gift for her sister-in-law, and escorted them across town to the police station. In a corner there, two tables were heaped with jewelry, DVD players, cell phones, and the like. According to the police report, Boatright and Henderson fit the profile of drug couriers: they were driving from Houston, a known point for distribution of illegal narcotics, to Linden, a known place to receive illegal narcotics. The report describes their children as possible decoys, meant to distract police as the couple breezed down the road, smoking marijuana. (None was found in the car, although Washington claimed to have smelled it.)
The countys district attorney, a fifty-seven-year-old woman with feathered Charlies Angels hair named Lynda K. Russell, arrived an hour later. Russell, who moonlighted locally as a country singer, told Henderson and Boatright that they had two options. They could face felony charges for money laundering and child endangerment, in which case they would go to jail and their children would be handed over to foster care. Or they could sign over their cash to the city of Tenaha, and get back on the road. No criminal charges shall be filed, a waiver she drafted read, and our children shall not be turned over to CPS, or Child Protective Services.
Where are we? Boatright remembers thinking. Is this some kind of foreign country, where theyre selling peoples kids off? Holding her sixteen-month-old on her hip, she broke down in tears.
Later, she learned that cash-for-freedom deals had become a point of pride for Tenaha, and that versions of the tactic were used across the country. Be safe and keep up the good work, the city marshal wrote to Washington, following a raft of complaints from out-of-town drivers who claimed that they had been stopped in Tenaha and stripped of cash, valuables, and, in at least one case, an infant child, without clear evidence of contraband.}
Sarah Stillman: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture : The New Yorker
The American police state is a violent and brutal place, the armed robbers have no concern for the health of their victims.
{In West Philadelphia last August, an elderly couple named Mary and Leon Adams were finishing breakfast when several vans filled with heavily armed police pulled up to their red brick home. An officer announced, Well give you ten minutes to get your things and vacate the property. The men surrounding their home had been authorized to enter, seize, and seal the premises, without any prior notice.
I was almost numb, Mary Adams, a sixty-eight-year-old grandmother with warm brown eyes and wavy russet hair, recalled. When I visited her this spring, she sat beside her seventy-year-old husband, who was being treated for pancreatic cancer, and was slumped with exhaustion .}
The Use and Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture | PoliceMisconduct.net
And we know that resistance during an armed robbery by police will get you killed.
{Dont shoot me! Dont kill me! screamed a terrified Frances Scott as heavily-armed men broke down the door of her home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight.
Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake by his wifes screams. Although he was groggy from sleep and the effects of a nightcap, and his vision was blurry because of recent cataract surgery, Scott grabbed a loaded revolver and hurried downstairs to defend his wife. A few seconds later he was dead, fatally shot by an intruder later identified as Gary Spencer.}
Remembering the Murder of Donald*Scott ? LewRockwell.com
The murderer, Gary Spencer is a Los Angeles Sheriffs Deputy.
