The Police Strike Again/Grandmother Gunned Down

[bibadiva73]

Has anyone posted this?? An 88-year-old Atlanta woman was killed as police started shooting at her house. She was firing back in self-defense, I guess, because she thought it was criminals. This is so sad.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/23/atl...ing/index.html

Very sad situation indeed.

First off anyone who knows me here on A/C knows good n' got damn well what I'm 'bout. I'm pro black to the fullest. Now w/that bein' said I can say that if that was indeed the right house then I can't fault the officers for what they did. It'd still be sad b/c a precious life was taken, but it'd be just that; sad.

Now that's only if they had the correct house...if her house was indeed where the drug dealer lived. They come n' knock the door down n' are greeted with a hail of .357 bullets, what are they going to do other than shoot back? You think they had time to see through the bullets n' realize it was a petrified 92 year old holding the gun? I don't know 'bout you, but if a kid is shootin' at me n' I have a gun I'm going to try to blow his fkn head off before he blows mine off first.

"Police have not released the search warrant or the affidavit supporting it. Cobb said Georgia's open records law allows police to withhold evidence -- including 911 tapes and search warrants -- during an open investigation."

The real question is do you believe they actually had the right house n' recovered any narcotics whatsoever? I've thought about it n' watched the 92 y/o's outraged niece n' quite frankly I don't. You see that excerpt above I've copied from the article? That there means that they aint gotta show or tell us ****. How you feel 'bout that?

[MzKwietStorm]

This is definitely a sad, sad story. But 92 or no 92, if you start shooting at the police, they're going to shoot back and based on the story, only one officer shot back. I have to agree with Xenocide on this one. But if it turns out it was the wrong house, there's going to be hell to pay down there.

[bibadiva73]

Well, the latest news is that one of their informants said he was told to lie and say that drugs were purchased at the house before. They are trying to cover this up when they know they made a mistake. I smell a major lawsuit...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/28/atl...ing/index.html

[jimihaze]

They knew they came to the wrong house. Everybody knew which house was the crack house including the police. they just killed an elderly person who was afraid and trying defend herself from the police and the thugs around her.

[RaInEdomThoughtz]

11Alive News has learned from sources that Fulton County’s district attorney will pursue criminal charges against police officers in the death of Kathryn Johnson.

It was a no-knock warrant that was being served by Atlanta narcotics officers when Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed. The officers claimed that Johnston opened fire on them when they entered her home.

On Wednesday, law enforcement sources confirmed that three or four of the officers involved in the shooting could face state charges from District Attorney Paul Howard’s office -- possibly up to and including murder.

Questions arose after the November shooting on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta about the information Atlanta narcotics officers used to obtain the no-knock warrant to enter Johnston’s home.

Officers say they had to pry burglar bars off her front door before barging in. That apparently gave Johnston enough time to arm herself in self-defense.

What happened after that is still unclear, but sources say the actions of at least some of the officers serving the warrant could result in murder charges.

So far, the FBI has been leading the investigation into the case. But sources say that U.S. Attorney David Nahmias and Fulton County D.A. Paul Howard will meet to discuss the investigation results, and that it is all but concluded that the charges will come from Howard’s office.

11Alive News has also learned that Howard will take the investigation into the shooting to a Grand Jury in the near future.

Howard and Nahmias will not release the results of the investigation until that Grand Jury returns indictments. Family spokesperson Rev. Markel Hutchins pushed for a federal investigation originally.

“This family has never sought vengeance,” Hutchins said. “What they sought was justice.”

Sources say the case could go to a Fulton County Grand Jury in the next week or two. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean there will be no federal charges brought in the case. According to sources, federal civil rights charges are pending the outcome of the case the state brings against the officers.
Source

[Tuncher]

for what is all about !

[afrocentric]

I want to make sure that i don't repost the same subject.

Theres is an update news about the 92 year old grandmother that was gunned down by the Atlanta polices officers. They have been found quilty. The case is still pending for the third officer. Read herehttp://www.bet.com/News/Atlantacopsp...ionUnpublished

I was shocked when i heard about this incident. I wanted to go thru that tv and
deal with those bastards! How can someone shoot someone's grandmother down? They should have been sentenced to death. I know that it won't bring her back. IMO, they got off easy! What do yall think?

[Babydoll]

The first I heard of this story was on the news this morning.

That was crazy.

I think they got what murderers usally get.

[SistaJosie79]

Question.....

Whatever happened to *Shoot To Wound*?