-Caveat Lector-
More good news on the War On Drugs battle front.
Another big
victory. This vicious criminal had it coming.
Possessed a few
joint stubbs and a .22 rifle. Must be some kind
of drug using,
gun nut. Good riddance!
flw
Man Shot Dead at Home by Police, Small Amount of
Marijuana Found
Willie Heard, 46, of Osawatomie, Kansas was shot
dead in his
home on Saturday (2/13), by officers who were
enforcing a
no-knock search warrant. Officers from the
Osawatomie and
Paola police departments as well as sheriff's
deputies from
Miami County took part in the middle of the night
raid.
The search warrant indicated crack cocaine, pipes,
scales
and paraphernalia as the items sought, but a
search of the
house after the shooting, including the use of a
drug-
sniffing dog, turned up only "two or three"
marijuana
cigarette butts.
According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation,
the
officers announced their identities upon entering
and found
Mr. Heard in his bedroom with a .22 caliber rifle.
Heard's
16 year-old daughter told the Topeka
Capital-Journal that
the officers never identified themselves.
"When they came in, all I heard them say was 'get
down!
Freeze!'" she told the Journal. "I screamed,
'Daddy!' and I
think he thought (I) was in danger. He didn't
know they
were police officers, because he wouldn't hurt a
police
officer."
William Delaney, spokesperson for the Kansas
Bureau of
Investigation, told The Week Online that his
office was just
beginning its investigation, but that video and
audio tapes
of the raid were made by police, which he had not
seen yet.
Delaney did confirm that none of the items
specified by the
warrant were found in the home.
Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the
Missouri chapter
of the ACLU, told The Week Online that the
judgment shown by
the Kansas police was questionable.
"For some reason, the police in this case felt
that it was
necessary to enter the home at 1:30 in the
morning, when the
family was sleeping, on a no-knock warrant. Mr.
Heard, one
would have to assume, thought that his home was
being
violated and grabbed his rifle to defend it, for
which he
was shot to death. On top of that, it would
appear that the
evidence with which the police attained the
warrant was
faulty as they found none of what they were
looking for. No
cocaine, no cocaine paraphernalia, just traces of
smoked
marijuana."
Mr. Kurtenbach noted that drug law enforcement in
the region
seems to be getting more aggressive. "Most of the
complaints that we get here have to do with state
police
stops on I-70 in Kansas and Missouri and on I-44
in Southern
Missouri. Typically, the police have made an
alleged
traffic stop and then seek permission to search
the car.
Motorists are often threatened with arrest if they
refuse to
consent to a search, which is their right. These
complaints
seem to be on the upswing around here."
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