In a scene similar to those found in horror films, an eleven-year-old girl shrieked in terror as the shower curtain was ripped away, leaving her exposed to a large male stranger. The man wore body armor and aimed an assault rifle at the naked, terrified child… one wonders what perverse person would do this to a child.
Downstairs, the offender’s comrades were looting the house. Sterling Harrison, the girls 19-year-old uncle, was sitting in front of a game console when three of the invaders burst into his upstairs room, bound him, and shoved him down the stairway. Her terrified siblings – one thirteen years of age, the other seven – were herded together and held at gunpoint in the living room along with the rest of the family.
The invaders were no burglars, kidnappers or criminals of the illegal kind… They were police officers, as you’ve come to expect. As usual, nobody in the home was suspected of committing a criminal offense. No evidence of criminal misconduct was found. The SWAT raid was carried out after 10:00 PM, in violation of municipal ordinances. The rationale for this act of state terrorism? The apparent drug-related arrest, made nearly
two weeks earlier, of Mordsen Box, the 11-year-old girl’s divorced father. The man hadn’t resided at the address for several months.
And guess who lives nearby? This after-dark military raid took place at a residence located less than three miles from the White House.
Thirteen days before the raid, Mr. Box was arrested by Metro D.C. Police after five ounces of marijuana were allegedly found in his possession following a pretext traffic stop. Officer Taylor Volpe, who conducted the stop, claimed – falsely, according to the family’s lawsuit against the MPD – that the rear license plate of Box’s car was partially obstructed by a plastic cover.
Once the stop was underway, Volpe asked if there was “anything illegal” in the vehicle. Like countless others in similar situations, Box made the tragic mistake of answering a question the officer had no right to ask. He stated that he wasn’t “aware” of anything illegal in his car, and that Volpe could carry out the search “if you have to.”
“OK, so I can look?” Volpe asked. Soon after, he found the marijuana, and helped himself to the $180 in cash that was found in Box’s wallet. His expired driver’s license listed 1054 Quebec Place NW, as his home address.
The police had already paid two visits to the home while searching for Box. On both occasions family members explained that Box didn’t live at the address; however, this did not stop them coming back.
Invoking his “experience,” “knowledge,” and “training,” Volpe insisted that a search of the residence was justified by the supposed likelihood that a large quantity of narcotics and drug proceeds would be found at the residence. For too many judges, the rote recitation of such claims will obviate the need for actual evidence.
“In many dozens of other warrant applications sworn by MPD officers to different Superior Court judges in the one-year period, MPD officers similarly claimed under oath, based on the same `training’ and `experience,’ that a broad category of people referred to as `drug traffickers’ attempt to hide the evidence of their criminal activities in other places that are not their own home,” according to the lawsuit filed by lawyers on behalf of Harrison and her children. “These statements of `training’ and `experience’ thus purportedly give agents of the District’s government the ability to raid and search multiple homes and other locations for every traffic stop or street arrest in which they find contraband.”
In July 2013, just weeks after the Harrison’s home was invaded, Volpe
was given a “Rookie of the Year” award by the 5
th District Citizen’s Advisory Council of the MPD. Those to whom that award is given “are acknowledged … by cops who know
good police work when they see it (and work alongside it),” observed the Council. If breaking into a family home and holding a naked kid hostage is your idea of good police work, then with any luck, it will soon be time for the
public to do the
bad police work.
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Hence the need to learn the ‘fundamental principles of law’, purpose of govt. and law, elements to a crime, etc…
And how to perform ‘administrative remedies’ like ‘PresumptiveLetters’, liens on bonds, personal assets, certificates of dishonor and writs of quo warranto, etc., to remove our bad public servants from office.
I am showing how to do these, and I am winning where others think impossible, btw, at:
Facebook.com/PresumptiveLetters (And other FB pgs. Links in image at top of pg).
this is one of the reasons are country is in ruins.did they even have a search warrant?if they didn’t that’s against the constitution.but many political officials have broken the constitution countless times and got away with it.this saddens me every day i turn on the news and a new problem has arrived.this is against every thing i believe,it also breaks the 4th amendment:the Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.it makes me angry that we live in a corrupt democracy filled with liars and cruel people.this comming from a fourteen year old shows that i will speak up for my country and her people.if you agree with me,reply and share
WTF