Ex-LAPD rampage... - Page 29

This is one of those stories that is simultaneously so unbelievable and yet nauseatingly familiar that you just know our deeply flawed drug laws are behind it.

Ryan Frederick is an amateur gardener who grows tomatoes and Japanese maple trees, which look like marijuana. An informant told police there was pot growing at the residence and a warrant was issued. Frederick, who had been burglarized earlier in the week, mistook the police for thieves and sought to defend his home by firing on the unexpected intruders. Police officer Jarrod Shivers was killed.

Now, as we learned in the strikingly similar case of Cory Maye, law-enforcement does not take kindly to people defending their homes during mistaken drug raids. Ryan Frederick has been charged with first-degree murder on the theory that he knew the intruders were police and fired on them anyway.

Frederick had no criminal record and no marijuana plants. The informant was just wrong. Although a few joints were found in the home, it just doesn’t make much sense to contend that Frederick would provoke a shoot-out with police over a misdemeanor. Nonetheless, he's being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and can only hope the jury understands the horrible situation he's been placed in.

This is still a developing story, but at this point it seems pretty clear that the only reason this raid ever happened is that some idiot mistook Japanese Maple trees for marijuana. That's all it took. There are no safeguards built into the drug war to prevent this type of thing. If you call in a suspected marijuana grow, you are assumed to be a botanist capable of accurately identifying plants. Police will even risk their lives to investigate your idiotic claims.

Prosecuting Ryan Frederick for murder will do nothing to curb the inevitable result of continuing to raid homes based on informant testimony. This is all just one more injustice stacked atop a precarious edifice. Like Cory Maye, Ryan Frederick is lucky to even be alive, which begs the question of how many dead innocent people would have been unfairly charged with attempted cop-murder if they'd been fortunate enough to even survive the raid.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2008/feb/04/cop_dead_because_informant_misto

On the point about Police risking their lives to investigate such
claims - just can't help thinking it may have helped if that 'investigation'
had actually taken the form of an Officer who knew what he was looking
for having a quiet look first, before the SWAT team broke in ?
(If the informant could see the Maples, could not a policeman ?)

One of the articles said that the 'informant' was the same person who broke into the guy's home three days before the raid. Perhaps a "deal" was made, you know, information in exchange for immunity. Or, the whole thing could be made up to make the cops look bad.

I wonder who the lead investigator was on this case? Anyone have any guesses?

This story tells how the police play and how they will go against the very laws they have sworn to uphold. Read how they denied knowledge of the break-in even though they told the perp that night that they knew about the B & E. The person who did the B & E was never charged, anyone care to guess why?

http://gangstersinblue.org/tag/jarrod-shivers/page/2/

"I wonder who the lead investigator was on this case? Anyone have any guesses?"

From what I am gleaning, it was Kiley Roberts.

You guys have had a busy weekend, you should have started a new thread for this one.

I now see Jim in a whole new light.

The rest is just old news that happens everyday in this country.

People are starting to fear the police more than the criminal.

To think that a little weed that grows wild all over the world could cause so much violence from law enforcement.

So, I thought the lead investigator was Jarrods partner but according to Jim, Jim was Jarrods partner, makes one go hmmm. Just more spin.

Our Jim,
who spends so much time here on the Internet....


I'm stunned.


Where's the dog?

"The next best secnario would have been the door opening with the first swing of the ram after waiting and giving dozens of announcements."

http://tidewaterliberty.wordpress.com/libertarian-policy/john-wilburns-reports/john-wilburns-analysis-of-ryan-frederick-trial/

Seventh witness Detective James Duncan…

Narcotics Detective, was in the position just forward of Det. Walker, in the “stack.”

Det. Duncan said that Det. Roberts knocked 2 times on the storm door, and announced each time, “Chesapeake Police! Search Warrant! Open the Door!” then he (Roberts) opened the storm door and knocked on the vinyl trim, again announcing, “Chesapeake Police! Search Warrant! Open the Door!” Then the breacher, Det. Barone, knocked once on the front door, and announced, “Chesapeake Police! Search Warrant! Open the Door!” Then Det. Roberts knocked once again on the front door, and announced, “Chesapeake Police! Search Warrant! Open the Door!” Then Det. Walker (located at the rear of the stack) announced, “Chesapeake Police! Search Warrant! Open the Door!”

Det. Duncan stated that at that point, he saw the curtains in the window to the left of the door move, so he shouted “eight-ball,” and Det. Sgt. Chambers said “disregard.” After a few more seconds, Det. Sgt. Chambers ordered Det.Barone to “hit it.”

When questioned about the reenactment of the event, conducted by the CPD, Det. Duncan was unsure of the date, or even which month. it was conducted in…

Det. Duncan was excused.

So....
Duncan is our Jim?