Cops lie to get no-knock warrant, kill 92-year-old lady, cover it up, now plead GUILTY! [View All]

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http://www.11alive.com/news/article_news.aspx?storyid=96052
cross-posted in LBN http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2824918

Hours after the release of an indictment that charged them with felony murder, two Atlanta police officers pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the death of a 92-year-old woman last November. A third officer indicted on lesser charges in the case did not plead guilty.

Typically, the officers would have a confidential informant go to the house and make a buy but they did not. Instead, Officer Smith went to a magistrate judge and, in order to get a no-knock warrant, lied by claiming that an informant had made a buy and that surveillance cameras were positioned outside the Johnston home.

When the officers went up to the house after dark, it took them about two minutes to pry the burglar bars off the front door. By the time they got inside, Johnston had a .38 revolver which she fired one time at the officers. The bullet did not strike any of the officers, as had been previously reported, and was found in the roof outside the house.

After the shooting, Smith and Junnier met and concocted the story that the informant bought cocaine at the house. They also told the informant to lie to investigators, but he later admitted that he never bought drugs at 933 Neal Street.


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The poor lady fired one shot, into the air as a warning. Then they killed her and covered it up. Bastards.