Warrant for Grand Valley student shot during drug raid

[Bozita]

Source: AP

Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Warrant for Grand Valley student shot during drug raid
Associated Press

Grand Haven --The Ottawa County prosecutor's office has authorized an arrest warrant for a Grand Valley State University student who was shot and wounded during a police raid on his off-campus apartment.

The warrant for 20-year-old Derek Copp is on an unspecified drug-possession charge. Police say they found a small amount of drugs in the Allendale, Mich., apartment.

WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids spoke with defense lawyer Fred Dilley's office, which confirmed the warrant but declined further comment.

Ottawa County sheriff's Deputy Ryan Huizenga is accused of shooting the unarmed student in the chest during the March 11 drug raid. The Spring Arbor, Mich., native is recovering.

Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20090415/METRO/904150419/1361/Warrant+for+Grand+Valley+student+shot+during+drug+raid

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Here's a related story that hit the wires yesterday:


http://www.detnews.com/article/20090414/METRO/904140400...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Deputy back at work after GVSU student shooting
Associated Press


West Olive --An Ottawa County sheriff's deputy accused of shooting an unarmed Grand Valley State University student during the execution of a search warrant at the student's off-campus apartment is back on the job.

Thirty-seven-year-old Ryan Huizenga was arraigned Monday in a Holland courtroom on a misdemeanor charge of careless discharge of a firearm.

The student was shot in the chest on March 11 but is recovering.

Huizenga initially was put on paid leave but then was placed on unpaid leave last week before returning to work Tuesday performing administrative duties.

Undersheriff Gregory Steigenga says Huizenga was reinstated because it could take a long time for the case to wind its way through the court system.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Who in the hell writes these headlines??????

"Warrant for Grand Valley student shot during drug raid"

Who/what was shot? A warrant or a student?

I have...........nothing else.

[Occulus]

2. Okay, wait, wait....

From the first blurb:

"The warrant for 20-year-old Derek Copp is on an unspecified drug-possession charge. Police say they found a small amount of drugs in the Allendale, Mich., apartment."

And from the second blurb:

"Thirty-seven-year-old Ryan Huizenga was arraigned Monday in a Holland courtroom on a misdemeanor charge of careless discharge of a firearm."

Will anyone lay money on the charges for the "small amount of drugs" being more serious than, um, shooting an unarmed man in the chest?

Also, notice how the article says "drugs" and not the correct "marijuana". They always do their best to conflate and confuse cannabis with harder drugs, don't they?

Why is that? :think:

We just can't have people knowing a cop shot an unarmed man in the chest over a few tablespoonfuls of pot, now, can we? No, we need to call it ":drugs" to make it sound dark and eeeeviiiil.

[downindixie]

3. I don't care if the student had an ounce,

there was no reason to shoot him.This shit has got to stop,but more than likely will increase until we say enought together.

[Romulox]

5. Wait. Is an ounce a lot?

:shrug: ;)

[DRoseDARs]

6. Not if it's your last ounce...

*Please note I do not, nor have ever, used drugs. Nor do I much care about them other than the insane and irrational (but I repeat myself) application of drug laws against non-violent offenders.

[pattmarty]

4. The police in the US today are basically thugs. These ass holes........

...........would be right at home in a South American dictatorship. All of the so called "rights" we once had regarding police went out the window with rulings of the Supreme Court and Federal appellate courts over the last 20 yrs

[Kelvin Mace]

7. WHAT?

Thirty-seven-year-old Ryan Huizenga was arraigned Monday in a Holland courtroom on a misdemeanor charge of careless discharge of a firearm.

I'm surprised the charge wasn't "littering"

[ixion]

8. this crap has got to stop... end the failed 'war' on drugs

and stop militarized cops killing non-violent offenders.