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Plainclothes police officers, armed with guns and a no-knock search warrant, have killed a 92 year old women. ⇒

   29 November 2006, early morning

And to be clear, the 92 year old retiree wasn't a drug dealer -- at all. She was a damn good shot, however, leaving 3 officers wounded from this whole debacle. I was reading the most recent issue of Harpers on the bus yesterday, and in it Garret Keizer makes the "progressive's" case for owning a gun.

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  1. Quoting out of order from this article

    The shooting came on the same day that the district attorney in neighboring DeKalb County announced she would ask for a grand jury to review police department investigations of 12 deadly police shootings there this year.

    “This seems like another tragedy involving drugs,” [Fulton County District Attorney Paul] Howard said.

    Hmmm, it would seem like it’s another tragedy involving deadly police shootings, not drugs…Fulton County really needs to talk to DeKalb County.

    by haran on November 29 2006, 10:21 am   #

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