Erud wrote:Jackpine Savage wrote:TSKNIGHT wrote:
Confirmation of my thoughts on this being a fishing expedition. LE had no idea if their suspect was at any one of the apartments. They were hoping to get lucky.
Definitely have a problem with the search warrants being allowed at all in this instance, No-knock or not.
I think I'm starting to understand why the metro is what it is. Trying to get a murderer off the street is considered a fishing expedition.
Which part of what you quoted do you disagree with?
TSKNIGHT wrote:Definitely have a problem with the search warrants being allowed at all in this instance, No-knock or not.
The cops are trying to track down a murderer. They know he lives at this address. They have a description of the get away vehicle, and going through video surveillance they tracked it to this address. They find out he frequents three different apartments at this address. They found items at this address that were related to the murder. Search warrants weren't at all justified? WTF!
Here's some light reading on the overall situation:
https://heavy.com/news/mekhi-speed/ Some nice photos. Some indication that Speedy was involved in gang activity.
I'm still withholding judgement on the no-knock too. I think the drug no-knocks for preserving evidence were BS. And they damn well better have the right address. But I think no-knocks probably have a place to protect cops and the general public.
No knock, innocent? killed, cops fault.
Knock on door, gun fight ensues, stray bullet kills innocent, cops fault.
Take down in a public place, gun fight ensues, stray bullet kills innocent, cops fault.
Never the fault of the thug culture.
If this keeps up they are going to run out of cops.