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Phoenix Police Raid Home of Local Police-Misconduct Blogger

This hasn't hit the national news yet.  Nonetheless, Prison Planet reports:In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department. Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging. Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe signed the search warrant that allowed at least ten cops to raid his home in North Phoenix on March 12 while handcuffing his female roommate for three hours as they tore the place apart. The justification for the warrant seems pretextual: Police officials said Wednesday that a Phoenix detective prompted the investigation after complaining about harassment, though they declined further comment? Phoenix Assistant Chief Andy Anderson said the harassment case is unique because of the connection to an unaccredited grassroots Web site...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).