“They’re family-oriented people, and I’m having a hard time believing this....
Officials said they had information leading them to believe he might have been armed, necessitating the special operations response during execution of the search warrant.
FROM WHO?
"MIGHT HAVE?"
So you JUST HEAR a RUMOR and it is SUIT UP and KICK the DOORS DOWN at 6 AM!?????
Couldn't be MORE DISCREET like nabbing the guy at a job site, huh?
Officials did not say yesterday whether drugs were confiscated, though at least two guns were found’’
So they FOUND NO DRUGS (otherwise they would have said so) and CLAIM they planted, 'er, "found" two guns!
ANY WITNESSES!!!!?
Related: Drug War Hits Home
This first case hit a room, folks!
"Police return fire, kill suspect in New Bedford" by Milton J. Valencia and John M. Guilfoil, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | November 6, 2009
NEW BEDFORD - A State Police special operations trooper was shot, and the alleged gunman was killed, during a heavy exchange of gunfire in a drug raid at the break of dawn yesterday. A mother and her developmentally disabled child were inside the house where the shooting erupted....
The 6 a.m. shooting occurred on Shawmut Avenue during the execution of a search warrant at a multifamily home as part of an investigation into drug dealing.
Sort of makes you wonder why they didn't break down Barney's door, huh?
The alleged gunman was identified last night as Thomas Garnett, a 32-year-old carpenter and the father of the disabled boy. The boy and mother were apparently on the second floor at the time of the shooting and were not injured. Neighbors seemed alarmed both by the predawn shooting and the fact that Garnett was the target of a drug investigation.
“They’re family-oriented people, and I’m having a hard time believing this,’’ said Judith McMullen, the property manager. She said she has heard no complaints of drug dealing.
“I don’t really understand what happened,’’ McMullen said. “It doesn’t seem likely. Maybe I’m missing a piece.’’
What, they "knock" on the WRONG DOOR again?
Yesterday afternoon, detectives assigned to the Bristol district attorney’s office, who were investigating the drug dealing, searched Garnett’s white Ford truck.
Officials said they had information leading them to believe he might have been armed, necessitating the special operations response during execution of the search warrant. Officials did not say yesterday whether drugs were confiscated, though at least two guns were found.
Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter said the shooting shows the need for toughened gun laws, particularly laws that allow for the immediate detention of a defendant found to have a gun.
Oh, what a CUI BONO STENCH as well as a TOTALLY FASCIST MIND SET!!!
Immediate detention of a "defendant?"
HE HADN'T EVEN BEEN CHARGED YET, fascista!!!!
All because the COPS MURDERED an INNOCENT MAN!!!!!!!!
“We have a situation where a state trooper was struck by gunfire - thankfully, he is safe and sound because he wore a vest - we have a situation where in the midst of the gunfire a woman and child were in the home,’’ he said. “If ever there has been an event in recent Bristol County history that captures the need for a change in law enforcement’s battle against illegal gun violence, this event captures it.’’
Sutter announced yesterday that he has turned the investigation of the shooting over to Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest because his troopers were involved. The gunfight erupted when troopers tried to execute a “knock and announce’’ warrant at the home, meaning the terms of the warrant required them to make their presence known before entering. Garnett and the house had been the target of an ongoing drug investigation. No other family lived at the two-story building, neighbors said.
Drug detectives and members of the State Police Special Weapons and Tactics Team, armed with shields and wearing body armor, entered the front hallway when someone suddenly fired multiple shots at them through the wall from inside the apartment, said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman....
Oh, THAT IS WHAT the POLICE SAID? Any WITNESSES?!!!!!!!!
Still under fire and “fearing for the safety of the team, a trooper or troopers discharged their weapons,’’ he said. The trooper who was struck did not know he was hit until afterward, when he was checking his equipment.
So HE MAY HAVE BEEN HIT by a RICOCHET from his OWN SQUAD, huh?
For police, the episode was a frightening reminder of the dangers of executing search warrants, particularly the “knock and announce’’ warrants that are set by clerk magistrates and judges because of constitutional rights against unreasonable searches, but have been a source of concern for officers’ safety.
Yeah, A GUY is LAYING THEIR DEAD and the TONE of the AGENDA-PUSHING PAPER is the POOR COPS!!!!
This article IS TOTALLY REEKING of an APOLOGY for TYRANNY!!!!
“It’s dangerous police work, and it’s a difficult balance for officers to be as community-friendly as they should be and as safe as they must be,’’ said New Bedford police Lieutenant Jeffrey Silva. He was speaking of shootings in general because his department was not involved in yesterday’s raid, but said the potential for facing an armed encounter is an increasing concern among police....
This ABSOLUTELY REEKS and CUI BONO, huh?
Detectives spent the day searching for evidence in the area. Streets were cordoned off late into the afternoon.
Didn't they KNOW WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR?
WHAT DRUGS was this guy ALLEGED TO HAVE DEALT and WHY is the STATE and MSM SILENT on the subject?!
Because there WERE NO DRUGS?!!!!!
Garnett moved into the home in the spring with his boy, who neighbors said was about 8 years old, and the boy’s mother. It was not known yesterday whether Garnett was married to the woman.
What difference would that make? Pfft!
In 2003, he served three months of probation for pushing a girlfriend during a dispute, but it was not know yesterday whether the girlfriend is the boy’s mother.
Oh, then HE DESERVED to DIE, didn't he?
Look at how the Globe DIGS UP DIRT on SOME PEOPLE, but NOT OTHERS, hanh?!!!!
Neighbors said Garnett, the woman, and the boy seemed like a wholesome family.
Then they PROBABLY WERE!!!!
Lydia Cambra, 87, who lives across the street, said she saw them outside. Neighbors said the boy is blind and hearing impaired....
The shooting rattled the middle-income neighborhood of narrow streets and multifamily homes....
Yeah, I'LL BET IT DID!!!!
A friend, Jay, who would not give his last name, said he knew nothing of the drug-dealing allegations against Garnett, and called him a family man.
Using the BARNEY FRANK EXCUSE, I see!!!!
“They just kicked down that door, and all everybody heard was a barrage of bullets,’’ he said.
Another neighbor, Brenda Lagasse, 47, said she heard a dozen gunshots and ran outside.
“SWAT was here, police were here, paramedics were here, and I overheard the police say they had a warrant,’’ she said. “He started shooting, and the cops retaliated, and that was that.’’
HOW COULD SHE KNOW THAT if she HEARD SHOTS and RUSHED OUT?
The Glob "witness" is FULL of SHIT!!!!!!!
The boyfriend of Garnett’s sister, Robert Overton, said in a telephone interview last night from Georgia that though he never met Garnett, he was well loved by his family. “My girlfriend loved her brother,’’ Overton said. “He was a nice, honest, sweet guy that all the family loved. They took [the news] bad.’’ Overton said the family left their home in Harlem, Ga., yesterday to fly to Massachusetts. He said no one in the family knew anything about a drug raid, only that Garnett had been shot.
--more--"Of course, if it had BEEN SOME ILLEGAL the COPS WASTED the AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBE would have had a follow-up.
And HERE is the FLIP SIDE of the FASCISM:
"Drug use called epidemic in Mass.; OxyContin, heroin imperil public health Commission seeks help for addicts" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | November 6, 2009
Abuse of OxyContin and heroin in Massachusetts has reached epidemic levels and must be attacked with the same fervor now being directed toward controlling the H1N1 flu virus, a special state commission said yesterday.
Oh my f***ing....
UN-FLIPPING-REAL!!!
Trying to tie that FRAUD FLU FASCISM to DRUG ABUSE!!!!!
“The Commonwealth is in the midst of a serious and dangerous epidemic,’’ the panel, known formally as the Massachusetts OxyContin and Heroin Commission, said in a 71-page report released yesterday at the State House.
Isn't that a PHARMACEUTICAL?!!!!
“The Commonwealth is losing men and women on its streets at a rate of 42 to 1, compared to what the state is losing in two wars overseas,’’ the panel said in its executive summary.
That isa TOTALLY BANKRUPT and MORALLY DEGENERATE COMPARISON! Yeah, it is the STATE LOSING men and women in the lying wars overseas -- NOT FAMILIES!!!
The ELITE ARROGANCE is ASTOUNDING!!!!
Thus is life in Massachushitts!
“Addiction is a medical disorder, and we have a public health epidemic on our hands that is larger than the flu pandemic.’’
You know, LYING is a MENTAL DISORDER, too, and I SUGGEST YOU GET CHECKED OUT!!!!
The report compared the number of US service men and women from Massachusetts killed in Iraq or Afghanistan and the number who died from overdosing on one or both of the drugs between 2002 and 2007. During those years, 78 service people lost their lives while 3,265 died from drug-related causes, the panel found.
“We have a health crisis here,’’ said state Senator Steven Tolman, who chaired the commission. “None of them [addicts] want to be sick. You could have a son or a daughter who was brought up properly with all the morals and values, and, when they get hooked on the stuff, it doesn’t matter; it’s all out the window.’’
Berkshire District Attorney David F. Capeless, a commission member, said prosecutors believe that fighting substance abuse will reduce crime....
The panel made 20 recommendations, including:
■Strengthen the existing prescription-monitoring program so that public health officials learn more quickly about patients collecting multiple prescriptions for the same drug and about doctors who appear to be writing more prescriptions than necessary.
■ Limit criminal sanctions against substance abusers who seek medical help for using illegal drugs and create a Good Samaritan law to shield anyone helping drug users in trouble get to a hospital before they die.
■Increase support for the three “recovery high schools,’’ where teenage substance abusers recover in a supportive educational, age-appropriate environment. The schools are in Boston, Beverly, and Springfield.
■Invest in substance abuse diversion programs that steer the addicted away from costly prisons into less expensive recovery programs.
It ALL SOUNDS GOOD except for the get-up-your-ass part!
“If the H1N1 virus killed 3,000 people in a five-year period in Massachusetts, the crisis would be center stage,’’ the commission found. “Because of the stigma surrounding substance abuse, this epidemic is left in the shadows.’’
Sigh. How many we losing to regular flu a year?
Speaking for Governor Deval Patrick’s administration, Michael Botticelli of the Department of Public Health said the agency is planning to launch a pilot jail diversion program this year.
“What we are anticipating is that this would actually be cost effective for the Commonwealth,’’ he said. It costs $45,000 a year to incarcerate someone, he said. “The cost of treatment is dramatically lower.’’
Oh, NOW THEY FINALLY DISCOVER the VALUE of TREATMENT as opposed to PRISON!
And HOW THEY SCORNED the VOTERS for DECRIMINALIZING WEED!!
The STENCH of MASSACHUSHITTS HYPOCRISY overrides any weed smell!
In 2007, there were 105,552 admissions to DPH-funded substance abuse programs in Massachusetts, and the total spent during fiscal 2005 on substance abuse and addiction in the justice system was $1.084 billion, equal to 5.3 percent of the state budget, the commission said.
Oh, WE NEED LESS LAWS, Massachusetts!!! ]
Capeless said he and other commission members know that increasing public support for noncriminal solutions to prescription and heroin drug abuse will not be easy.
EXCUSE ME?
WTF is he TALKING ABOUT?
We are FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!!
“But it can happen to anybody, to any family, whether a big city, or rural, whatever economic status, region, or socioeconomic status,’’ he said. “We’ve heard from people from all walks of life....
So when the argument is ADVANTAGEOUS for THEM they will trot it out!
