Police Chief Apologizes - You See, Police Raided The Wrong House

[matcom]

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Clarksville Police Chief Mark Smith said he will offer two Old Trenton Road residents a written apology for officers mistakenly raiding their home Friday night.

"I want to publicly apologize," Smith said Monday during a press conference, adding that Friday's mistake was the first time in his 28 years with the department that officers broke in to the wrong home.

"There is certainly no pattern here," he said.

According to Smith, the police tactical team received information that a drug dealer lived at 343B Old Trenton Road, but they ended up going to the house next door that only had the letter "B" on the outside -- which turned out to be 341B.

The residents of 341B, Teresa Guiler and James Elliott, who are both in their 50s, were sitting in their home watching television when the masked men stormed into the house.

Guiler, whose arm was in a sling from a previous injury, told police that they had the wrong man as they pointed a gun at her and Elliott, who is deaf and had recently received a liver transplant, she said.

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20040914/localnews/1229874.html

[arwalden]

1. You See... I hate it whenever anyone says "you see".

[underpants]

2. You know who they SHOULD HAVE called?

[Endangered Specie]

3. Must have been alot of doughnuts in their house.

[miss_kitty]

4. "normal procedure"

"Smith said that although he feels terrible about the raid, he insists the officers never used excessive force. But because Elliott resisted, officers had to control him by "bringing him down," he said...
"What justification can you give to kick a 54-year-old man who's down on the ground," (atty) Meeks said about Elliott, who is a Vietnam veteran. "All he saw was men in masks with rifles. He was terrified. Then to get knocked down and stomped. They picked him up like a suitcase. The Police Department said they acted in normal procedure, but that's not normal."

whenever they do shit like thisthey seem to ALWAYS do it to the exact antithesis of the people they're looking for.
great recon work. deaf, with a new liver. arm in a sling. i wonder how long it took them to clear...

[el_gato]

5. Nazis in masks weilding guns

Fuck him and the whole stinking pig sty.

[Surf Cowboy]

6. It's inflammatory, but I gotta agree, very Nazi-ish.

Jackboots aplenty!