A Georgia SWAT team shot and killed an armed homeowner during a
September 24 drug raid sparked by the word of a self-confessed meth
addict and burglar who had robbed the property the previous day. No
drugs were found. David Hooks, 59, becomes the 34th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year.



Garrett’s claims were the primary basis for the search warrant. But
investigators also claimed they were familiar with the address from a
2009 investigation in which a suspect claimed he had supplied ounces of
meth to Hooks, who resold it. Nothing apparently ever came of that
investigation, but the five-year-old uncorroborated tip made it into the
search warrant application.



Mitchell Shook, an attorney for Hooks’s family, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that deputies spent 44 hours searching Hooks’s home for drugs — yet they found nothing. The attorney also told the Macon Telegraph that the shooting didn’t happen the way the police say it did.



"She saw several men all in black and camo with hoods on,” Shook said.
"She ran downstairs, woke David and said, ‘The burglars are back.’ ”



"They may have seen him with a weapon, but it appears at that point in
time it was chaos,” Shook said. "They were shooting everywhere. There’s a
lot more to it than law enforcement has reported.”



So add another body to the pile. Four years ago, I described another fatality at the hands of a Georgia anti-drug task force — the death of pastor Jonathan Ayers. Eight years ago,
a narcotics team from Atlanta killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston
during a drug raid on her home, then attempted to plant drugs in her
basement to cover its mistake. The team had been relying on a tip from
an informant and did no corroborating investigation. In 2010, a Polk
County, Ga., drug raid team put a 76-year-old woman in intensive care
with congestive heart failure after raiding the wrong house. In 2008, a
Gwinnett County tactical team terrified a couple and a baby when they
raided the wrong home. In 2000, a Georgia police raid team shot and killed Lynette Gayle Jackson when she held up a gun as they broke into her home. Jackson had recently been robbed. In 2006, Deputy Joseph Whitehead was shot and killed
during a surprise raid on a suspected drug house. The men who shot him,
Antron Fair and Damon Jolly, argued that they thought they were being
robbed by a gang. They later pleaded guilty to murder to avoid the death
penalty. And, of course, last May, 19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh was critically wounded
when officers deployed a flash grenade in his crib during a drug raid
on his home. That raid, too, lacked much in the way of investigation.



That’s all just Georgia.



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Anyone who hasn't become increasingly uncomfortable with no-knocks, the "war" on drugs, etc is completely out to lunch and apparently wants their ass-wiped by the almighty state from cradle to grave...  

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Jesus Georgia, WTF are you guys doing over there?



Then again, TX is not much better.

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Having been the victim  of a cop lying to get a no knock warrant.  .I am not surprised.  I am sure as in most cases there will be no punishment



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End the insane war on drugs.  

At this point anyone who still supports this stuff is an unabashed statist.  

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War on drugs and officer safety duh

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We had a swat raid against a farm for not stacking firewood properly.

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So what happens if the police do one of these no knocks, get the wrong house, and someone shoots at/an officer thinking they are an intruder?  Lets say it's a state with a castle doctrine/ no duty to retreat.



Who if anyone is charged and with what crime(s)?

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a narcotics team from Atlanta killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a drug raid on her home, then attempted to plant drugs in her basement to cover its mistake. The team had been relying on a tip from an informant and did no corroborating investigation.



Why do authors lie about things like this? It just taints everything else they write.

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a narcotics team from Atlanta killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a drug raid on her home, then attempted to plant drugs in her basement to cover its mistake. The team had been relying on a tip from an informant and did no corroborating investigation.

Why do authors lie about things like this? It just taints everything else they write.

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Let me guess...no drugs found means the guy is white as snow and a model citizen?

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Let me guess...no drugs found means the guy is white as snow and a model citizen?

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"In 2010, a Polk County, Ga., drug raid team put a 76-year-old woman in intensive care with congestive heart failure after raiding the wrong house."
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So what happens if the police do one of these no knocks, get the wrong house, and someone shoots at/an officer thinking they are an intruder?  Lets say it's a state with a castle doctrine/ no duty to retreat.

Who if anyone is charged and with what crime(s)?

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So how long until Police just start calling in an airstrike on suspected "drug homes" instead of risking lives.

I mean drugs = terrorism..... so... drone strikes!

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Let me guess...no drugs found means the guy is white as snow and a model citizen?