From: [c--a--r] at [access.digex.net] (Francis A. Ney, Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.law-enforcement,alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Police sued in NJ for wrong-house jackboot raid
Date: 27 Nov 1995 13:46:10 -0500

We need to see more stories like this.  When it gets too expensive, in terms 
of money and of lives, to violate the 4th amendment, we might at last see some 
peace.

Message to LEOs: stop being wage slaves and start living up to your academy 
oaths.  This includes blowing the whistle on dirty cops and crap like this 
below.  Otherwise you have only yourselves to blame if everyone believes that 
you are worse than the criminals. 

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Posted by Bob Witanek <[b--ta--k] at [igc.apc.org]> 11/1/95

LAWSUIT OVER POLICE RAID THAT TARGETED WRONG HOUSE REINSTATED BY
COURT

They smashed down the door with sledge hammers.  With guns drawn,
they ordered children to lie face down on the floor and roughly
handcuffed them.  According to a court opinion, "The mother and her
sons were then manhandled, threatened, abused and terrorized by the
officers, who searched the apartment for drugs and found none.  ...
Mrs. McKinney, terrified and believing that she and her children
were in extreme peril from intruders, told her older son to wake
her younger son and run from the apartment.  (One son) still in
pajamas, started towards the front door when it crashed in at his
feet and he saw men with weapons drawn."

The above incident occurred in East Orange at 10am on December 31,
1986.  The police purport that they were making a drug raid, but
that they went to the wrong address.  The victims of the abuse were
members of the innocent McKinney family.  Yesterday, a state
appeals court decided that the family is entitled to sue the police
for the indignities they suffered.  According to the court
decision, the police officers making the raid were in plain clothes
and never adequately identified themselves.  The court further
determined that the police refused to allow Mrs. McKinney cover
herself with a bathrobe, threatened to shoot the dog, flipped over
mattresses and threw clothing drawers on the floor.  When the
McKinney family sued, Judge Martin Greenberg asserted immunity for
the detective who obtained the warrant and Judge Julio Fuentes
prevented an expert on police procedures from testifying. 
Therefore, a jury ruled against the McKinney family.  But
yesterday, a 3 judge appeals court panel ruled that the case must
be retried.  (Trenton Times, 11/1/95)

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on anything its own size and will soon be extinct.  That being so, perhaps 
Americans ought to select a symbol more in keeping with their current 
condition, like a milked cow, a sheared sheep, a plucked chicken, or a 
slaughtered steer."
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