Workers from the Department of Human Services along with the sheriff’s deputy and an officer from the Grayling City Police went to Reddie’s apartment with a court order to remove the minor child because Reddie had allegedly smoked marijuana in the presence of his son. Reddie was agitated and had allegedly threatened police when confronted with the marijuana accusation earlier in the day on Feb. 3.
A resident of the apartment complex, who lived across the parking lot from Reddie, said he saw police go into the apartment and within a few minutes he heard gun shots.
“I heard two shots,” said Brian Jackson. “A friend who lives in the building heard the shots and ran into the hall to see two young children run out. He said Reddie was face down on the floor.”
This is a heartbreaking story. Imagine this poor child seeing his father murdered in front of him … and over something as trivial as smoking marijuana. Just heartbreaking.
A former New York City police detective found guilty of planting drugs on two innocent people was spared prison time after a dramatic courtroom mea culpa Thursday.
“I can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore,” Arbeeny tearfully told Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach, according to The New York Daily News. “Sir, I am begging you, please don’t send me to jail.”
Shocking, right? It’s no surprise that this cop got off with a slap on the wrist. What I wonder is what happens to the convictions of all the people Jason Arbeeny arrested for drugs during his career.
I have a suspicion this happens all the time. And this strict punishment will surely dissuade any other cops from continuing the practice. Yeah… It’s a miracle that this even saw daylight to begin with, but that it ends with such a pathetic “punishment” means that it will continue.
hmmm ..
The American Mafia as we know it did not exist before Prohibition, either. Prohibition had far-reaching effects on almost every aspect of American life, all negative.
Shortly after midnight on December 26, 2001, Maye, then 21, was drifting off to sleep in his Prentiss duplex as the television blared in the background. Hours earlier, he had put his 18-month-old-daughter to sleep. He was soon awoken by the sounds of armed men attempting to break into his home. In the confusion, he fired three bullets from the handgun he kept in his nightstand.
As he’d later testify in court, Maye realized within seconds that he’d just shot a cop. A team of police officers from the area had received a tip from an informant — later revealed to be a racist drug addict — that there was a drug dealer living in the small yellow duplex on Mary Street. It now seems clear that the police were after Jamie Smith, who lived on the other side of the duplex, not Maye or his live-in girlfriend Chenteal Longino. Neither Maye nor Longino had a criminal record. Their names weren’t on the search warrants.
I hope my little girl grows up in a world without a “War on Drugs” and a death penalty. What a sad, sad story.
An illustrated booklet by the author of Go the F*CK to Sleep!, Ricardo Cortes.
Police officers in Lansing, Michigan are in hot water after an investigative report by local ABC News affiliate WXYZ.
According to the report’s source, officers with the OMNI Drug Task Force executed a search warrant on the home of Rudy Simpson in June 2008, and found a small bag of marijuana and half a pain pill that he’d been prescribed.
While talking about what they should do, officers began to eye the expensive recording equipment around Simpson’s home, ultimately deciding that they could very well take everything if they wanted thanks to the drugs they’d found.
Noam Chomsky on Marijuana
