There was a case back in the news in 2006 in Atlanta, that is coming back to the surface. In November 2006, officers were serving a "No Knock" Search Warrant on a suspect drug house. The lady of the house, shot her weapon once at the intruders, not knowing that it was the police. She was subsequently shot 39 times by police entering her home. Now this woman, Kathryn Johnson, aged 92, was killed during this altercation.
Well, jump ahead to the present, and one of the officers, Arthur Tesler, is on the stand at a grand jury hearing about the incident and it comes out that many things here were not as they seemed. After the shooting two of the officers envolved pressured the other officers into lying that they had witnessed an informant buying drugs at the house. Tesler also told the jury that Officer Jason Smith had lied to the judge to get the warrant to search the house, planted drugs in Ms Johnsons house before the raid.
Now Mr Tesler is charged withlying in an official investigation, violating his oath as an officer, and false imprisonment. Mr Tesler was one of the officers outside during the raid. He didn't actually take part in the murder of this citizen, but he lied to help the other officers.
I personally hope that all of the officers involved never see the light of day. They deserve the harshest punishment that we as a society can come up with.
It seems more and more these days, that officers are increasingly committing the same crimes they are sworn to protect against, all while hidden the cloak of their badge.
We need to demand accountability from all public servants to their employer, that would be US!
Viva Liberty!
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