Despite both screen door and storm door at the front entrance of Ms. Reynolds’ home remaining unlocked, SWAT officers used an entry tool attached to the front of an armored vehicle to puncture the screen door and rip it free from Ms. Reynolds’ home in its entirety.
In so doing, SWAT officers damaged the screen door beyond repair, heavily damaged the door frame surrounding the front entry, and tore vinyl siding from the exterior of Ms. Reynolds’ newly remodeled home.
SWAT officers then entered Ms. Reynolds’ home by turning the doorknob of the storm door which remained on Ms. Reynolds’ home, still unlocked, and pushing the door open in the manner a door is designed to operate .
Searching for a missing person supposedly
During the search of Ms. Reynolds’ home, SWAT officers opened and searched all the drawers in Ms. Reynolds’ kitchen and detached Ms. Reynolds’ appliances from the walls of her home.
SWAT officers flipped the mattresses off all the beds in Ms. Reynolds’ home and tore all of the clothes from the closets in the bedroom.
SWAT officers tore the cushions off Ms. Reynolds’ furniture and emptied the contents of open soda cans onto the floor.
When your parents and in-laws get older you find out what fire fighters do day to day. They go around helping old people. They’ve helped the older generation in my family probably 30 times and counting.
For 22 years, Ledell Lee maintained that he had been wrongly convicted of murder.
“My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man,’” he told the BBC in an interview published on April 19, 2017 — the day before officials in Arkansas administered the lethal injection.
Four years later, lawyers affiliated with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union say DNA testing has revealed that genetic material on the murder weapon — which was never previously tested — in fact belongs to another man. In a highly unusual development for a case in which a person has already been convicted and executed, the new genetic profile has been uploaded to a national criminal database in an attempt to identify the mystery man.
Lee also presented evidence that his trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel and that the presiding judge lacked neutrality: At the time, the judge was having an undisclosed affair with the assistant prosecutor. (They later married.) Lee’s counsel on appeal appeared in court so drunk that he slurred his words.
Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote allowing Lee to die. It was his first recorded vote cast as a justice of the court.
Yeah traffic stops are really weird. Like the roads are swarming with dangerous drivers who are never stopped ldo, but I guess the cops are just rolling around Black neighborhoods waiting for people to pause too long or not long enough at a traffic light.
I’m sure this isn’t a groundbreaking theory but it seems like a lot of policing issues stem from the systematic conversion of cops from the people who help you when something bad happens to the bad guys lurking behind the bushes trying to catch you speeding that are trying to reach into your pocket for fines.
I have had almost no interactions with police but reflexively pucker when I see one come in for a coffee because you know they are trying to CATCH YOU doing something.
Can’t we farm that stuff out to meter maids/parking enforcement folks? Everyone already hates them.
