Why armed drug cops took ‘every belonging’ from a Michigan soccer mom

[ghostsinthemachine]

Annette Shattuck wasn't home when the masked men entered her house and ransacked it. But her 56-year-old mother was, clipping coupons and watching over Annette's four children under the age of 10, Shattuck recalled last week before the Michigan House of Representatives.

"After they breached my door, at gunpoint, with masks," she said, repeating what her family told her, "they proceeded to take every belonging in my house. And when I say every belonging, I mean every belonging." That included, she said, her husband's tools, the lawnmower and a bicycle. They took credit card statements, tax returns, and the public assistance card Shattuck used to help feed her family. They even took $90 worth of birthday money out of her daughter's "pink bedroom," as it's listed in a summary of seized property compiled by the police.

"My children's artwork was on the floor with boot-prints on it," she says, recalling what she saw when she returned home. She testified that they hung her lingerie from the ceiling fans. The men took her vehicles, which she said included the car seats for the smaller children.

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[Ilsa]

1. These pigs are OUT OF CONTROL.

I'd love to see their reactions if their own homes were trashed and everything stolen.

[on point]

2. They should each be hit with personal $100K fines paid to her, and the city $1 Million

and then fired.

Thieves acting under color of authority. This is EXACTLY what the Magna Carta and Constitution were intended to protect against. The state taking, with out cause or due process.

[Maedhros]

3. "We do what we must, because we can..."