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05/17/2003 Archived Entry: "Woman dies after wrong-house flash-bang raid"

SAD, FAMILIAR STORY. Woman dies after NY City police charge into her apartment in a no-knock, no-think, flash-bang, wrong-house drug raid.

(Saturday evening) It just gets weirder and weirder. ABC news is now reporting that:

• The drug dealer they were allegedly raiding was already in jail;
  
• The "registered informant" had (typically, in these cases) never provided a stitch of actually useful information; and
  
• The warrant hadn't authorized use of a flash-bang grenade (which is usually required).
  

New York's Mayor Bloomberg is "deeply saddened" over the woman's death. Yeah. No politician will ever be "deeply saddened" by this kind of thing unless it kills his own aging mother or affects his chances of re-election. Nobody in authority really cares about this kind of "collateral damage" from the insane -- but oh-so-profitable and power-building -- drug war.

Posted by Claire @ 11:34 AM CST
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