Monday, September 12, 2011

Here's a sheriff and a bunch of deputies who should first be charged

for their criminal acts, and then sued. And have to pay the award out of their own damn pocket.
Geoffrey Asher just returned home from buying auto parts, and after coming out of a shed where he stored the parts, a sheriff's deputy was pointing a gun at him.

He didn't know the deputy had followed him for speeding, and officers didn't have the right to arrest him, then break into his home to search for evidence of crimes they had no reason to believe he even committed.
Bad, right? Just wait:
But Asher never agreed to a search, and the Lumpkin County sheriff and his deputies spent seven hours rummaging though his home before they got a judge to sign a warrant, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Gainesville.
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He told the deputy to holster his gun if all he wanted was to write a speeding ticket, and when the deputy threatened to shoot him in the head, Asher told him to calm down and "wait for adult supervision," according to Karzen.

Deputies searched Asher's pickup and found handguns, all legally owned and which he used for target shooting, the attorney said.

Lumpkin County Sheriff Mark McLure soon arrived and used a credit card to slip the lock of Asher's front door, according to court documents.
Sheriff McLure, you are a disgrace to that badge you wear. You should be fired immediately. The same for your fellow sorry excuses for lawmen that were your deputies.

"Most of what I've seen were reasonable, honest mistakes by good cops," he said. "This was the first time I was involved in a situation where law enforcement officers knowingly violated someone's rights and lied about it in court."
Assuming the EffingBI and DoJ don't prosecute these people for the violations of rights, I'd think they could be prosecuted on the state level for perjury since they lied under oath. And they should be.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

if fines and penalties came out of the department retierment fund....
Na that won't happen.

Phelps said...

Felony B&E if nothing else, to make sure that the criminal never wears a badge again.

I wouldn't shed a single tear if an unknown resident inside had shot him in his empty head.

Mark Mcclure said...

Police brutality and misconduct are good for the economy.

We cops kill more than 1500 Americans each year.
We send another 55,000 to the hospital.

Think of all that wonderful economic activity.
All those ambulance rides.
All those good jobs for doctors, surgeons, nurses and MRI techs.
All those billable hours for local attorneys and judges.

And the "police brutality bonds" the taxpayer can pay back with interest.

I'm a hero!

Comply or Die!