Documents Reveal: Cops Planted Pot on 92-Year Old Woman They Killed in Botched Drug Raid

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from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via AlterNet:


Documents Reveal: Cops Planted Pot on 92-Year Old Woman They Killed in Botched Drug Raid

By Rhonda Cook, Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Posted April 30, 2007.



Atlanta resident Kathryn Johnston's death has finally been exposed to be a case of police coverup in clear example of the insanity of the war on drugs.

According to federal documents released this week, these are the events that led to Kathryn Johnston's death and the steps the officers took to cover their tracks.

Three narcotics agents were trolling the streets near the Bluffs in northwest Atlanta, a known market for drugs, midday on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.

Eventually they set their sights on some apartments on Lanier Street, usually fertile when narcotics agents are looking for arrests and seizures.

Gregg Junnier and another narcotics officer went inside the apartments around 2 p.m. while Jason Smith checked the woods. Smith found dozens of bags of marijuana -- in baggies that were clear, blue or various other colors and packaged to sell. With no one connected to the pot, Smith stashed the bags in the trunk of the patrol car. A use was found for Smith's stash 90 minutes later: A phone tip led the three officers to a man in a "gold-colored jacket" who might be dealing. The man, identified as X in the documents but known as Fabian Sheats, spotted the cops and put something in his mouth. They found no drugs on Sheats, but came up with a use for the pot they found earlier.

They wanted information or they would arrest Sheats for dealing.

While Junnier called for a drug-sniffing dog, Smith planted some bags under a rock, which the K-9 unit found. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/51151/

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1. terrible-----to end a long life in this matter----deciet!

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2. They murdered here. Let them get some of that 'righteous'

justice the repubs babble about all the time. Maybe even a trip to death row. I mean, it's fair for all of us. Should be fair for them.