There’s been another casualty of paramilitary policing, only this time it’s not a dog; it’s a little seven-year-old girl. This is the little girl’s family’s attorney. It turns out the raid was being taped for an A&E reality show, and the footage is contradicting the Detroit PD’s claims.
I know that this has been beat to death, but these paramilitary units and tactics were developed for terrorist actions and hostage situations in the 70s, and have no place in minor pot busts or this kind of horseshit. In fact, they have no place in a free society at all, but that’s a different argument.
If the video doesn’t disappear (which I find unlikely) and it bears out what Mr. Fieger is claiming (which seems almost inevitable) here’s hoping everyone involved in the raid and the ensuing coverup gets to spend the rest of their life in prison.
Of course, odds are that not one of ‘em will even miss a paid day of work. But you already knew that. After all, they’re allowed to gun you down with impunity. It’s their job.
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Let’s see if I’ve got this one straight: The cops are caught on videotape murdering a 7-year-old little girl in her home, and the reason given for the murder is that they were showing off for the camera crew.
Moral? It wouldn’t have happened, absent the video record of the fact that it DID happen.
Do you suppose Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, and the victims of a few hundred other unvideotaped police murders over the past couple of decade would agree with this asinine proposition?
The only thing that would’ve changed, absent the video record, is that there’d be no evidence that the cops murdered a little girl and then, as always, lied about what happened.
Unless I’m somehow mistaken, and I doubt that I am, this guy was Jack Kavorkian’s long-time attorney.
That being so, this could be fun (in a grim sort of way).