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Oklahoma narcotics officers plan their next raid.
Earlier this month, officers from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs raided a home in Mustang, Oklahoma, looking for Cory Davis. The cops didn't find Davis, which is no surprise; while the police tossed the house, the man they were looking for was cooling his heels at a prison boot camp where he's resided since November of last year.
Whoops.
Glenn Speck, who lives at the raided home with his wife Terry Speck and is Davis's uncle, is just a bit miffed that police harassed his wife while he was at work, invaded his home and pawed through his property -- without good reason. An environmental chemist who is both technically savvy and no stranger to public controversy (he often participates in debates over global warming), Speck was willing and able to put police on the spot for the misfired raid.
As it turns out, the entire incident was captured on the Specks' video security system.
It should be pointed out that Glenn and Terry Speck were relatively lucky. Heavily armed and armored police pounded on the door and waited for 51-year-old Terry to answer before charging in, rather than kicking it down, shooting the dog and tasing the inhabitants. Such restraint is increasingly rare these days, especially in drug cases.
Oh that's right ... According to Glenn Speck, the heinous crime that Cory Davis committed to provoke this raid involved the sale of one-half ounce of marijuana.
By the way, a simple search on the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Website turns up Cory Davis's incarcerated status.
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Comments
LOL! What a bunch of keystone kops, ROTF!!!
A half ounce??? Really!
Who is suppose to pay for this madness?
Do you actually think that this will make even the slightest dent in the usage of marijuana? With the economy falling around our collective ankles, do you think this is a wise use of public funds? How much did this effort cost? ...where does it end? Now, while the police are playing with the little boys, who is trying to catch the big boys...the real criminals? Look, lets drop the marijuana prohibition...it's not worked in over 70 years...it's a wasted effort. 22.5 TRILLION dollars spent and .... well, I can go to the corner convenience store and get ANYTHING that I want! ANYTHING! What a wasted effort. I can NOT afford my taxes since my factory job went to mexico then china. How am I suppose to pay for this level of law enforcement... selective law enforcement. Apparently, one can come across the border illegally, but you can't ask about citizenship...but have some weed and .... I can't afford it anymore.
I'm BROKE!!!, pennyless, USA
But procedures were followed; surely none can be held responsible as long as 'procedures' were observed...yes lucky for the subjects of the raid, no one was killed by agents 'in fear for their lives'.
The very first thing the Specks need to do is get a lawyer to call on the judge and find out about that warrant. Someone under oath said they had reason to believe Corey Davis was there. Clearly someone lied to the judge under oath to get that warrant. Whomever it was needs to be put on trial for lying under oath. If the local parasites don't want to pay ball and cover for each other. Fine file a civil lawsuit and file with the federal government which would be the FBI to go after the oath liar for federal civil rights crimes.
This is the kind of case a person could have settled very quickly depending on how much media spotlight they could shine on the cockroaches. Nevertheless, someone lied under oath to the judge. No way around it.
Like lots of offences, perjury isn't much of a crime when done by a 'team player'...the government team. Laws aren't made to be enforced...against the enforcers.
In order to get a warrant police will withhold exculpatory information, stretch the truth and outright lie. Judges appear to just be a rubber stamp on search warrants anyway. Modern 'law enforcement' is a means justifies the ends sort of thing. That the means and/or the ends often happen to be absurd in a so-called free society causes little concern.
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