STU PITT BLOG: 2011-10-23

Here's What The War On Pot Looks Like: This Must Stop. - Toke of the Town

This footage is disturbing -- even sickening. But it's time to stop hiding our heads in the sand.

This is what the war on marijuana looks like.

Militarized, gung-ho SWAT team cops playing Rambo, kicking in a door, slaughtering the family dogs as they howl in pain, terrifying and scarring for life an innocent, seven-year-old child... for what?

To confiscate a small, misdemeanor amount of marijuana from Jonathan Whitworth.

Mission accomplished, eh?

No wonder these drug warriors have inspired national outrage, revulsion, and disrespect for law enforcement.

The officers fired seven rounds, inside a dwelling occupied by a woman and child (along with their "suspect," whose only "crime" was smoking pot).

The family's pit bull was killed and corgi was shot as the horrified child looked on.

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Serves Her Right for Accidentally Getting Hit by a Stray Bullet | The Agitator

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Woman gets hit with stray bullet, heads to hospital. NYPD officers decide she’s lying about what happened, arrest her, detain her for five days . . . then release her with no charges.

Takesha Griffin, 35, said she was handcuffed to a bench in the squad room or locked in a filthy holding cell at the 73rd Precinct stationhouse during a spirit-shattering stretch last month. Cops asked her repeatedly if she was ready to cough up the real story.
“They wanted me to lie,” said Griffin, whose lawyer filed a notice of claim on Tuesday. “It was like ‘The Twilight Zone.’ ”
During her lengthy confinement, Griffin said she urinated on herself when no one was available to escort her to the bathroom. She was also denied a sanitary napkin.
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