Posted in
Chronicle Blog by
Scott Morgan on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 5:02pm
Derrick Foster is the latest person facing prosecution after mistaking a drug raid for a robbery and firing on the intruders, who turned out to be police. He's gainfully employed, has no criminal record, and wasn't involved in any drug activity. But, of course, police are pushing the theory that he wanted to kill some cops on purpose. Concerned that Foster's innocence could result in him being found…innocent, the local police union is going around
intimidating potential character witnesses.
In yet another
raid-gone-wrong, police heard that Ronald Terebesi, Jr. was smoking crack in his house (smoking, not selling). So they threw a flashbang grenade in his window, smashed down his door with a battering ram and killed a disoriented man who "charged" at them. 33-year-old Gonzalo Guizan is now dead because police went nuts in order to stop a guy from smoking crack.
And kids, what do we learn from this lesson? Jimmy - "that the drug war is bad for the USA as it kills more inocent citizen by mistake then safes from anything. Besides that it made us incarcerated more then a fair amound of our citizens for non-violent marijuana offences!"