cannabisnews.com: Atlanta Police To Review 'No-Knock' Policy Atlanta Police To Review 'No-Knock' Policy Posted by CN Staff on November 27, 2006 at 13:46:44 PT By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Georgia -- Atlanta's police chief said his department will review its policy after an elderly woman was killed in a shootout with plainclothes officers. Police Chief Richard Pennington's comments on the incident were the first since Kathryn Johnston was killed Tuesday night after she shot three narcotics officers who were serving a warrant at her home. The chief was out of town last week for Thanksgiving holiday and said he was unable to get a flight back to Atlanta sooner. The officers entered the home looking for cocaine based on tips from an informant for which they received a "no-knock" warrant, according to the search warrant released Monday. Police frequently use "no-knock" warrants to get inside a home before suspects have a chance to get rid of any drugs or other contraband. Pennington said his department will review its policy on "no-knock" warrants and its use of confidential informants. After the shooting officers found marijuana inside the northwest Atlanta home, but "not a large quantity," Pennington said Sunday. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office also reported Sunday that records show Johnston was 88, despite her family saying she was 92. Pennington was scheduled to hold a news conference later Monday to disclose details from the shooting, said police spokesman Officer Joe Cobb. The incident remains under internal review by the police department, which prevents the chief from talking about many aspects of the case, he said. Johnston was described by neighbors and family as a woman who lived in fear in Vine City — a northwest Atlanta neighborhood in the shadow of the Georgia Dome sports stadium. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident at the request of the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. The Rev. Markel Hutchins, a civil rights activist, has called for a federal investigation into the incident. The three officers were released from the hospital last week and are on leave with pay. Funeral plans for Johnston have not been made. Source: Associated Press (Wire)Published: November 27, 2006 Copyright: 2006 Associated Press CannabisNews Justice Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/justice.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #50 posted by FoM on November 29, 2006 at 06:26:46 PT afterburner Thank you for the links. You must have spent a good deal of time researching them. Good work afterburner. [ Post Comment ] Comment #49 posted by ekim on November 29, 2006 at 06:16:31 PT Hope # 24 fyi The unarmed man shot to death by New York police before his wedding was the nephew of Miami basketball coach Frank Haith. [ Post Comment ] Comment #48 posted by afterburner on November 29, 2006 at 01:10:41 PT Looking Back: Now and Then Time To Slam Door Shut On Some Raids (Posted by FoM on December 01, 1999 at 08:11:43 PT) By Chuck Green, Denver Post Columnist, Source: Denver Post http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/3/thread3838.shtmlHigh Court Backs Police No-Knock Searches (Posted by CN Staff on June 15, 2006 at 10:42:06 PT) By Associated Press, Source: Associated Press http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21914.shtmlTwenty-three year old man [Clayton Jacob Helriggle] shot dead by police in a marijuana raid. Dayton Daily News ^ | 10/01/02 | Cathy Mong (Posted on 10/01/2002 7:16:59 AM PDT by Phantom Lord) Dozens protest Preble County police shooting: Slain man’s roommates say he was unarmed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/760697/postsWar on Drugs Can Claim a Deadly Victory (Posted by CN Staff on October 08, 2002 at 15:34:45 PT) By Steve Stephens, Source: Columbus Dispatch http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14389.shtmlThe War On Drugs Is An Infringement on Liberty (Posted by FoM on October 27, 2000 at 20:03:16 PT) By Donovan Bramwell, Source: Idaho State Journal http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/7/thread7477.shtml McCartney Very, Very Scary in Japanese Jail [1980] (Posted by FoM on April 24, 2001 at 09:44:10 PT) By Paul Majendie, Source: Reuters http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/9/thread9481.shtmlCN AB: Column: Canada Going All To Pot, Red Deer Advocate, (28 Nov 2006) http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n1623/a11.html?176The Drug That Pretends It Isn't (Posted by FoM on April 02, 2000 at 19:41:29 PT) By Anna Quindlen, Source: Newsweek http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/5/thread5270.shtmlCN ON: PUB LTE: Over-The-Counter Prescription Drugs and Caffene Can Be As Bad, Author: Matt Mernagh, The Standard, (28 Nov 2006) http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n1623/a06.html?176CN ON: Tory Leader Admits Driving 'Stoned', London Free Press, (28 Nov 2006) http://www.mapinc.org/newstcl/v06/n1622/a04.html?176Now that the police are killing grandmothers and now that black people are more aware of the systemic racism inherent in the War on Some Drugs, more Americans will awake from their 69-year Rip Van Winkle cannabis propaganda sleep. We voted for change! [ Post Comment ] Comment #47 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 17:18:12 PT Dale Franks Q and O "The illegal obtaining of a warrant is a felony. Breaking into someone's home with an illegally obtained warrant is a felony. In the course of committing that felony, an innocent citizen was killed. That makes the charge felony murder. It's no different that blowing away a convenience store clerk during an armed robbery. If you kill a person during the course of a felony, it becomes a felony murder case." [ Post Comment ] Comment #46 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 17:05:20 PT OT: Gingrich and Free Speech Gingrich Raises Alarm at Event Honoring Those Who Stand Up for Freedom of Speech***November 28, 2006MANCHESTER – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism. Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message."We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade," said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994.Complete Article: http://tinyurl.com/w8rqb [ Post Comment ] Comment #45 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 16:38:58 PT hey listen buried a dog, a few months the other day,did not bury any niggarsjust my mother and fatherthey found Eternityit was that old dog that bothers methat is methat is me 'looking at my little buttonand the face of my little dogIt Is Time [ Post Comment ] Comment #44 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 16:14:16 PT here we are marching off to warpressing those correct buttonsthat give so much disgracethat give so much comfortOne God One Tablefrom the USthis transmissionoriginates from Eternity [ Post Comment ] Comment #43 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 15:58:12 PT so sorry.. What? you do not trust me? ..I don't trust you either.That little button was about trust'While my half ass could deliver a messageIt Is Time [ Post Comment ] Comment #42 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 15:43:29 PT meant to say How? Is this considered a civilized society?In this flesh I need to be part of civilized society.My secular vowsI will abandonFor my vows made to EternityThat is that crack in this universe, that pours out stars, Infinite Paths, are for foot stepThe Path is IlluminatedBlood Shines a funny wayFrom that Infinite Roof of stars and universes [ Post Comment ] Comment #41 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 15:32:02 PT re: My little button cheap trick, Hey its time rock n rollersto look at your medical insurancewhen I look at my bank statementI can see, clearly my futureOn some bodies ledgerCannabis is food it is medicineThere is, a big doctorMuch like a fat lawyerAnd some law enforcement officerIf you think that civil war in Iraq was impossiblewhat is "civil" ?shooting 50 niggarsor 88 year old womenhow is this civilization in 2006? [ Post Comment ] Comment #40 posted by global_warming on November 28, 2006 at 15:10:10 PT re: comment 2 What does your button say?My little button saysI believe that this planet has the twinkle [ Post Comment ] Comment #39 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 15:06:09 PT Toker00 I told my husband that I believe the difference is a male thing. Men seem to like to fight while women want to fix things most times. It's just the difference in the sexes I believe. [ Post Comment ] Comment #38 posted by Toker00 on November 28, 2006 at 14:59:05 PT FoM, nuevo You are both right, you know. I understand perfectly where BOTH of you are coming from. Being a man, I lean more toward nuevo mexican's and BGreens point of view, but I respect and understand FoM's, as well. Oh, and by the way, I don't even know if nuevo mexican is a male. That is an assumption on my part, and I hope I don't wind up being the first three letters of that word! :)Peace. Love. Sympathy. Understanding. Brotherhood. Trust. Christ. Goodwill. Good Words.Toke. [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 13:07:45 PT BGreen Yes I do. I understand. [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by BGreen on November 28, 2006 at 13:04:25 PT You are too doing something, and it's BIG! We're all working together for a more peaceful and just world, and we have most of our success by reaching out to those we see every day. You're having an impact for the better by just being you.I try to have an influence on national matters but it's my work and presence locally that has the most perceivable impact.If everybody treats their fellow humans and animals with kindness then we WILL create that change.See where I'm coming from?The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 12:54:39 PT BGreen I don't understand. I can't change anything up here. [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by BGreen on November 28, 2006 at 12:53:41 PT I'll do my part down here, FoM You take care of things up there. :)The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 12:50:57 PT BGreen I know that I could never be a cop. I couldn't pack a gun and use it for any reason. I don't believe in guns even though I don't think they should be against the law. I believe in peace and freedom for society. Hopefully we can change the system and stop these senseless killings. [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by BGreen on November 28, 2006 at 12:47:22 PT Willing participants in this "system" = GUILT If people just did what was right instead of being willing to kill "just because of the system," there wouldn't be any more "system" as we know it."I was just following orders" didn't work for the Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg and I don't buy it coming from our drug warriors, either.Just my two cents.The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 11:39:11 PT nuevo mexican I don't know anything about the Pope as far as how I use certain terms. We studied this in Theology so I weigh words very carefully. Someone like OJ I would call a murderer even though he wasn't found guilty. (a pre-meditated act) If a cop shot and killed me and they were on a raid I wouldn't want them blamed but blame the system not the one who pulled the trigger. That's how I look at words and meanings. [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by nuevo mexican on November 28, 2006 at 11:20:47 PT Catholic school? And what about the pope? I blame the system too, but ignorance is never a defense!If this happened to you FOM, everyone here would forget what they learned in Catholic school, and would accuse the po-lice of murder, ESPECIALLY if you were 88 years old.(has anyone heard, she was black, btw)! C'mon, let's not parse killing, you shoot to kill, you are a murderer! End of story, and that is NOT being UN-compassionate, just ACCURATELY describing the truth!My heart goes out to this ladys' family, may they win a multi-million dollar lawsuit that puts the criminal po-lice out of biz-niz! And ends swat teams, AND the war on some drugs!If we used drug-testing on all politicians, there would be NONE! Pedophiles and predators, the GOP has revealed itself to be, and happy to do the drugs they incarcerate others for.Let's get busy passing mandatory drug testing laws for Congress, Bush, cheney, and the rest of the murderous, yes MURDEROUS criminals who've racked up about 600,000, to 800,000 innocent Iraqis', (remember, Bush LIED!), and we are supposed to give the benefit of the doubt to jack-booted, dressed to the nines, Nazi-wanna-bes!Not I, not I! Where's Kap? [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 10:51:52 PT nuevo mexican The term is one I won't use unless it is a willful, pre meditated intention of one person to take out the life of another. That's what I was taught in Catholic school. That's why the term murderer is one I won't use unless I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that was the case. I blame the system more then one or more persons. [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by nuevo mexican on November 28, 2006 at 10:41:33 PT Yes FOM, they ARE murderers..... and you know it, so please don't make me mad, you are better than this! I love you as do all here, don't make excuses for murderous behavior on behalf of goon squad nazis', we don't go for that, even on your message board!Sorry, please admit you're wrong!Oh, and the Nazi SS were 'just doing their jobs'!NOT!Maybe I misunderstood you?They are murderers, I call them Paid-murderers!With the murder in New York that just took place, and Gramma getting killed, Americas' self-defense button has been pushed, and we not take this crap anymore, unless some here LIKE it like this! And I know you don't!A spade is a spade is a spade! [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 09:38:57 PT Update On Story Police Shootout With Elderly Woman Prompts FBI Probe Tuesday November 28, 2006 Probe Sought In Police Shooting of Georgia Woman92-Year-Old Woman Shot To Death In Ga. By Police ATLANTA (AP) - The FBI will lead the investigation into the shootout between plainclothes police officers and an 88-year-old woman who was killed in her home, which was suspected to contain drugs, the Atlanta city police chief said Monday. Three officers were wounded when they entered Kathryn Johnston's home looking for cocaine based on tips from an informant, according to the search warrant released Monday by the Fulton County State Court. Police said the informant told officers he had purchased drugs in the home earlier, prompting investigators to get a warrant. But Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington said it was unclear whether there had been a drug deal or whether the suspected drug dealer actually exists. "That's what we're going to have to investigate and determine," Pennington said. "The officers are saying one thing, the confidential informant is saying something else." Monday evening, WAGA-TV aired an interview with a man who said that he was the informant, and that he had never purchased drugs at Kathryn Johnston's home. The man, whose identity was obscured by the TV station, also said that police had asked him to lie about providing the information, but that that was before he knew the elderly woman had been killed in a shootout there. Seven narcotics investigators and a police sergeant were placed on paid leave until the inquiry is complete, Pennington said. Pennington said the informant is in protective custody and would be a key part of the investigation. "There are many unanswered questions," Pennington said. "I promise each and every citizen that the truth will eventually be known, but we must have patience." After the shooting, officers said they found marijuana inside the northwest Atlanta home, but "not a large quantity," according to Pennington. Police had a "no-knock" warrant, which are frequently used to get inside a home before suspects have a chance to get rid of drugs, said Pennington, adding that his department would review its policy on such warrants and its use of confidential informants. The U.S. attorney's office, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Fulton County district attorney's office also will take part in the review of the circumstances surrounding the shootout. Sarah Dozier, Johnston's niece, has said her aunt lived alone. Johnston was described by neighbors and family as a woman living in fear in Vine City - a northwest Atlanta neighborhood in the shadow of the Georgia Dome. There were burglar bars on her one-story brick home, and she rarely let friends and neighbors inside. The medical examiner's office also reported Sunday that records show Johnston was 88, despite her family saying she was 92. Copyright 2006 by The Associated Presshttp://beta.abc3340.com/news/stories/1106/376635.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 09:24:42 PT Man's Best Friend Dogs were used like you said Hope to help not hurt society. [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by Hope on November 28, 2006 at 09:22:54 PT Winston Churchill once said something to the effect that the Brits would beat the Germans because they wouldn't live in a country where militarized police might break your door down at three o'clock in the morning. Raids on people's homes and nightime raids were born of the War on Drugs. Seizure and forfeiture of money and property were born in this country of the War on Drugs. It's a vile thing and I'm so bitterly ashamed and disappointed that it's happened to this once brave and bold about freedom nation.For you younger people, police didn't used to use dogs on people either. It was so Nazi like. They only used blood hounds and search dogs and rarely. I'd read enough and seen enough movies and documentaries about what happened with the Nazis in World War II that I was stunned beyond belief when I saw our officers start using dogs. Brrrrr. Nightime raids, raids at all, dogs, siezure, it was unheard of in this country. It looked to me like somehow the Nazis did get this country...and spoiled her terribly. It makes me sick...literally. [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by Hope on November 28, 2006 at 09:11:36 PT It was undercover and plainclothes officers who killed the groom in New York and shot his companions. The man, I believe, thought the cops were armed gangsters going to get him and he was trying to get out of his parking spot...where he was blocked by the van with the undercover officers.I liked what I read about the rules in New York about shooting into cars. They aren't supposed to...according to their rules. The theory is if you have time to set up a clear shot at a vehicle, you have time to get out of the way of it.Surely they didn't bust into the lady's house in plainclothes. They probably had armor and helmets and shields.It was dark, she'd been awakened, and I'm sure the elderly woman couldn't see well. It is amazing that she hit the D(e)arth (in)Vaders at all, much less as many times as she did.Poor dear woman. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 08:52:24 PT Oh Did you see they were plain-clothes police? [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 08:51:34 PT FoM I think so, I think it's at the minimum negligent homicide, if they had at best an unreliable informant and no corroborating evidence to justify an illegal home invasion, and a death resulted -- that's the standard. [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 08:50:21 PT Whig You can say that. I don't think that though. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 08:50:01 PT CNN is in Atlanta That should help keep legs on this story. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 08:49:00 PT FoM Can I say this here?They are murderers. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by FoM on November 28, 2006 at 08:45:59 PT Update: Informant Says Cops Told Him To Lie Update: Informant Says Cops Told Him To Lie About Shooting Of Elderly Atlanta Woman***William Macklin - All Headline News Staff WriterNovember 28, 2006 Atlanta, GA (AHN) - An unidentified police informant is in protective custody following a television interview in which he said officers had told him to lie about buying narcotics at a home where an elderly woman was shot and killed during a drug raid. Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington said at a press conference Monday, that the informant's comments contradicted statements made by officers who were at the scene when 88-year-old Kathryn Johnston was gunned down by plain-clothes officers. "The officers are saying one thing, the confidential informant is saying something else," said Pennington, in his first public comments about the shooting. Police had claimed that the informant told them he had bought narcotics from a drug dealer at the house where Johnston was killed. During an interview, however Monday on WAGA-TV, a man who identified himself as the informant said officers concocted the story after the shooting. The features of the informant were obscured during the televised interview. Police Chief Pennington said the informant had made similar comments to the police department's Internal Affairs unit. Three police officers were wounded during the Nov. 21 drug raid. Officers said Johnston was killed after she opened fire on investigators. Pennington told reporters that officers said they recovered a small amount of marijuana during the raid. Investigators had said they went to the house seeking to bust a cocaine sale. They entered the home on a "no-knock" warrant. The shooting has prompted the Atlanta Police Department to review its use of such warrants. Johnston's family and neighbors said the elderly woman had an intense fear of being assaulted, and that she lived cloistered behind locked doors and barred windows. Family members gave Johnston's age as 92, but a report by the medical examiner said records show she was 88. The seven narcotics officers and a police sergeant involved in the incident have been suspended, with pay, pending the outcome of the investigation. The names of the officers have not been released. The shooting has angered many Atlanta residents and prompted a wide scale investigation involving the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Fulton County District Attorney's office.Copyright: All Headline News http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005657297 [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by whig on November 28, 2006 at 08:44:26 PT OverwhelmSam Think of all the returning Iraqi vets who could be hired as militarized police. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by OverwhelmSam on November 28, 2006 at 08:20:48 PT Ignorant Police Brutality Law enforcement in this country sucks. In New York the police shot fifty rounds at and killed an unarmed 23 year old man days before his wedding. The police cited paranoia as the reason for the summary execution. If police officers don't have enough balls to do their job without killing innocent citizens, perhaps America should screen their applicants better and call for an end to paranoid police brutality. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by OverwhelmSam on November 28, 2006 at 08:14:31 PT Gee, Too Bad These Officers Survived As dirty as they are, they probably planted the marijuana in the lady's house after the shoot out. The lies are so typical of prohibition enforcement, which is based on lies in the first place. If there is any justice at all in America, these narcs will be locked up for many years. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by afterburner on November 28, 2006 at 07:22:53 PT It's about Time: FBI Investigating How is it justified to break into a person's home like thugs? No wonder the grandmother shot. And they killed her for defending her home and self. Maybe, the publicity of this tragic event will finally wake the masses up to the folly of endangering police and residents with such strong-arm tactics. We and they did vote for change. Now, let's hold them accountable. "The times they are a-changin." [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by doc james on November 28, 2006 at 06:00:24 PT: I AM ALMOST 60 NOT 64 WHAT THE F*** does it matter how old poor gram was, 88 is damn close to 92. I am so sick of hearing of innocents dying from these overzealous gun-toting bast****! Sorry to say this but I'm wishing gram could of taken a few of those pricks with her. Gram is another statistic in the war against a plant. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Hope on November 27, 2006 at 21:49:15 PT More over at The Agitator Pennington has suspended seven narcotics officers and asked the FBI to investigate.http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027273.php [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by FoM on November 27, 2006 at 21:38:19 PT Wayne We had a very nice Thanksgiving and I hope you did too. The story is very sad. A person that lives that long should die of natural causes not the way she did. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Wayne on November 27, 2006 at 21:08:57 PT national outrage? Hello all, I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving...I know most of you don't trust and/or don't like to listen to most major media outlets, but I just thought I would inform you that Ms. Johnston's story is currently front-page news on CNN.com. They have the full story too, and are keeping it updated. There is a little bit of the usual media spin, but for the most part the story is pretty straight-forward, at least as far as the updated information is concerned.They show a picture of her too. And guess what...something the story has thus far failed to point out: She's black. Big shocker there. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by freewillks on November 27, 2006 at 20:07:14 PT More ? How come you may not use "hear say" in court but you can strip away the rights to search and seizure laws with "hear say evidence"? How do you suspend an entire narcotics unit with pay?I would think that the statements of an informant would be probable couse for an arrest warrant for perjury! [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Hope on November 27, 2006 at 19:26:41 PT Informant denies telling police he bought drugs... http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027272.php#027272 [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by goneposthole on November 27, 2006 at 18:58:48 PT What can be done Implement a 'no bust' policy.Why not?Some newer news:Nov. 1, 2006The true stories of how American troops, killed in Iraq, actually died keep spilling out this week. Now we learn, thanks to a reporter's FOIA request, that one of the first women to die in Iraq shot and killed herself after objecting to harsh "interrogation techniques." black op radio [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by freewillks on November 27, 2006 at 18:56:28 PT Sorry Kids! your grand mothers canabis smoking got her killed. The world is now much safer that we ended this dirt poor old, pot smoking woman's life. By the way vote for me when you turn 18. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by whig on November 27, 2006 at 17:28:54 PT freewillks Good questions! [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by freewillks on November 27, 2006 at 17:15:01 PT driving me insane! will manslaughter charges be pressed on the informant? As a direct result of his bad info a great grandmother lays in some freezer waiting to be laid rest.Why when the cops always kill some one they always find a small amount of cannabis? meanwhile a great grandmother lays in some freezer waiting to be laid to rest.Why did only three Officers of the law execute a no knock warrant? I thought they had SWAT teams to deal with drug crazed great grandmothers.What are the odds of a 88 year old great grandmother shoting all three highly trained and armed narcotics officers before being murdered? good aim gram! Cannabis must have improved your reaction time.Wonder if she had her glasses on during the shoting? could be three dead cops. Why was he unable to get a flight back to Atlanta sooner? 6 days to get a flight? I bet the rental car company's where out of cars too. grey hound must not offer service to Atlanta. When 3 of your employee's get shot after a bogus raid, I would think the person in charge should tend to his job. Mean while a great grandmother is waiting to be laid to rest.Did the 3 narcs have to submit to drug testing after a fatel shoting? WHY NOT? what do you Bet they tested this dead GREAT GRANDMOTHER for drugs, after removing all her organs to make sure she was not hidding any drugs in her body. If records show she was 88 then why did the judge sign a NO KNOCK warrant? Common sense tells me that an 88 year old might not react so well to someone crashing in the front door. besides the information the judge reviewed was based on a rock solid informant whom he would have trusted his grand children with.Was the informant tested for drugs? after all them crack heads will say anything to get high again. or maybe he was high on cannabis.......what was i saying, oh yea maybe he was high on cannabis and a kinda forgot the address? [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by zandor on November 27, 2006 at 15:51:42 PT Well....... I guess this is another criminal that Bush can chalk up to a success in the war on drugs.What a shame this is to our American culture. Some stranger say's she is a crack dealer and they get a stupid judge to agree. I wonder who is dumber the person who said she was a crack dealer or the judge who believed him?Once again when they kill innocent American citizens they get rewarded with a paid vacation at tax payer’s expense.Disgusting, totally disgusting behavior. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by whig on November 27, 2006 at 15:01:36 PT gw What does your button say? [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by global_warming on November 27, 2006 at 14:28:19 PT re: records show "..records show Johnston was 88, despite her family saying she was 92.."Records show that she had little marijuana, records show that grown men who were posing as three narcotics officers shot and killed this women.This women is "dead", "why"?Did the marijuana kill her?It's like that vote and the buttons everyone has to push to survive, oops its too late I pressed the wrong button.Time to reflect on our place and role in this complicity that effects all of us. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment