Friday, December 12, 2008
News Fort: Botched Gwinnett drug raid shows need for 'no-knock' warrant ban
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:33 PM
As reported yesterday in the AJC, Gwinnett County police mistakenly raided the wrongLawrenceville home in an attempt to break up a suspected methamphetamine distributor. Andre at Georgia Politics Unfiltered spoke with state Sen. Vincent Fort about the issue.
The Democrat lawmaker who represents parts of Atlanta — and who also received one write-in vote for Cobb County Tax Commissioner on Nov. 4 (!) — introduced legislation last session that would've banned the use of "no-knock" warrants statewide.
State Sen. Vincent Fort (D - Atlanta) reacted to the article detailing the mistaken raid of John Lewis' home saying the incident would be laughable if it weren't so serious."This is just the reason why we need a statewide law restricting no-knock warrants," Fort said.
More insight and info is over at Andre's.
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And Fort's call for a ban on "no-knock" warrants is evidence of his ignorance of the issue; an ignorance that would result in the injury and death of police officers. Obviously, Fort has never participated in a search warrant on a drug house. Otherwise, he MIGHT understand how stupid he sounds.
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You are a retard sir.... no knock warrants are an abomination of our society. You, as a police officer take that chance when taking the job. You don't get to put innocent lives at risk to protect your own a$$. You make me sick. You come into my house announced and I will bring you down....
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