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Cops Gone Wild - Prince George?s County

By Mark Jakubik

The Baltimore Sun reports on another instance of jack booted thuggery, this one perpetrated by the Prince George’s County, Maryland Sheriff’s Department. Having allegedly intercepted a package containing marijuana that had been mailed to the home of the mayor of the town of Berwyn Heights, the sheriff’s department evidently presumably concluded that someone in the mayor’s home - possibly the mayor himself - was a dangerous drug dealer, and a violent criminal. I say presumably, because there is no other explanation - nomrational explanation, at least - for what the sheriff decided to do. Seems the department thought it was necessary to stage a violent, paramilitary style raid on the mayor’s home. In the course of this “police” action, members of the sheriff’s SWAT team shot and killed the mayor’s two dogs, and generally terrorized the inhabitants of the home...continue to full post

Full post as published by Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).