The RPD pointed out that an attorney for the Abbouds had released home security footage of the raid online, which the police said made releasing the body camera footage redundant. At the same time, the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might expose confidential information about search warrant execution or damage officers’ reputations.
You busted in a door and pointed an AR-15 at a baby. Your reputation should be fucking damaged.
Raleigh police “wrongfully executed a ‘Quick Knock’ warrant”—meaning they kicked in the door before the Abbouds had a chance to open it[…]
This is just a no-knock raid. Let’s not pretend knocking on a door a half second before pulling out the battering ram is some magical third category of warrant: no-knock raids should be banned, and whatever the fuck these cops did should be considered a no-knock.
Somehow the “your honor, the evidence will damage my reputation” seems to be work quite well when you’re a cop or millionaire.
I went to their Facebook page and nobody in Raleigh seems to even know this happened.
Can confirm. I live in Raleigh, and this is the first I’m hearing about this.
Every time we make a rule they make up some new bullshit to keep doing the things we banned.
Blame the Supreme Court. THEY are the dudes making up rules that let cops (and government officials) off the hook. Rules that don’t apply to you.
“If you don’t have anything to hide, what are you afraid of?” ;)
Man, the world has gotten to the point where obvious logical inconsistencies don’t even register as surprising anymore. Somewhere in my brain I still know that they should but I’m so desensitized to them that I can’t even laugh about how absurd they are.
It’s very dangerous for them to expose their complete and repeated incompetence to the public. One of these days the public might even think that cops might be capable of doing something wrong.
Yep. Dangerous. For them. Color me shocked
the RPD claimed that releasing the body camera footage might damage officers’ reputations.
RPD attorney Sherita Walton said that the raid was “valid on its face” and insisted that none of the officers did anything wrong.
State Bureau of Investigation agents confused Abboud with a neighbor who is also of Arab descent—the police refused to pay for the damage
“Releasing the footage might harm their reputations.”
Don’t you just station your troops in a different district and call it a day?
it will be fucking dangerous, yes. Professional suicide, even! And I like being the law, cuz it means you ain’t.
