Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner
Chicago, IL — Elizabeth Harrison, 82, used to tell kids to “respect the law.” Then on March 17, a gang of Chicago cops raided her home, busting down the door and holding her at gunpoint. Because of this trauma, Harrison had to be rushed to the hospital.
The great-grandmother said police must have had the wrong house, but they insist it was the correct address based on intelligence. No one believed her when she said she was a widow and lived alone. Harrison was made to sit in a chair, overwhelmed with anxiety, while they searched her home for drugs.
“They were there with the guns drawn: “Put your hands up! Put your hands up! Put your hands up!” Harrison said…
“They wanted me to produce this young man that they were looking for. And they would not take no for an answer that I didn’t know him,” she said. “I almost had a heart attack.”
As police swarmed the block, Harrison’s daughter who lives nearby rushed to the house.
“They had her sitting in a chair, and her breathing was like (heavy breathing sounds),” said Linda Channel, her daughter.”
The police were so incompetent, that the guy they were looking for showed up and said, “You all came to the wrong house. I live at 126, and this is 136.”
The cops found no drugs at Harrison’s home, of course. She described the ordeal to ABC7 while her heart rate was being monitored at Roseland Hospital. Now she questions the trust she had in police.
“I always tell my young people, ‘Respect the law,’” Harrison said. “But to have them come in and do what they did to me, something is wrong. Really wrong.”
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) maintains that they raided the correct address based on intelligence. Police are not apologizing to the traumatized great-grandmother, but they will pay for the broken locks and front door.
With stories like this, it’s no wonder Chicago racked up a $662 million police misconduct bill since 2004. As we reported a few days ago, that means taxpayers pay out $7,000 an hour, 24 hours a day, to compensate victims and their families.
The family of Laquan McDonald received $5 million last year after video emerged of a Chicago cop ruthlessly gunning him down, repeatedly firing into his body as he lay on the ground.
CPD officers have a history of shooting men as they run away, then lying about it until video proves them wrong. Homan Square is nothing short of a black site, where 7,000 people have disappeared over the course of 11 years.
For Chicago cops, scaring the life out of a great-grandmother living alone is just another day on the job.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/chicago-cops-hospitalize-great-grandmother/#8R1BsQTlxX2Ru10j.99
*** “I always tell my young people, ‘Respect the law,’” Harrison said. “But to have them come in and do what they did to me, something is wrong. Really wrong.” ***
What’s wrong, ma’am, is that too many people respect the law and its pig enforcers. If everyone DEMANDED that unjust laws be repealed, and that there be zero tolerance for abusive or unprofessional behavior among police, these incidents would happen rarely if ever.
82 years is a long time to wake up to the truth about the pigs, but better late than never.
Maybe they were just casing the joint. Or practicing for the real thing. Testing the waters if you will. Incompetence my a$$
“But to have them come in and do what they did to me, something is wrong. Really wrong.”
YA THINK???
Wakey, wakey.
“The Chicago Police Department (CPD) maintains that they raided the correct address based on intelligence.”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Now THERE’S an oxymoron!
“Wakey, wakey.” Where have I heard that before? It’s buggin’ me #1, I just can’t get it out of my mind!
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
“Wakey wakey, eggs and bakey.”
I actually liked the first movie better.
There is a simple explanation for this, They are a gang of ego driven swine ,criminals of the first order and don’t give a shit about anything but a pay check! Why don’t they arrest hitlery? The CIA/ FBI are of the same order of thugs and do the same things. The government has become a severe infection on the ass of the citizens and we are suppose to view them as hero’s, now that is a sick joke. I hope she sues the pigs but then of course it will be our tax dollars that pay the fine!
No one’s safe as long as there are wild pigs roaming the streets. We won ‘t get a rest from these lunatics until they’re wiped out.
$7000.00/hr 24 hours a day in victim compensation being paid for by taxpayers. Don’tcha think it is time to end obsequiousness for lawmen? They are not upholding any laws, merely breaking many and causing great harm while bumbling about.
I frequently have seen Sheriff Deputies in unmarked cars heading for a confrontation. Anybody can read those attitudes, as they bumble along the highway in a line not looking at all suspicious or conspicuous. They got it all figgerd out, see. They got the bigass guns, and you best stay out of the way, or you pay.
My grandma was sacred to me. If ever a cop did something…… ain’t visiting there now!
Must be some justice somewhere, just not in Chi-Town.
let me tell ya about these so called “anonymous tips” and “raids based on intelligence” most are 100% grade A free ranged organic BS.. they will say it was a tip or some other thing to justify busting down the door of someone just so they can either search their house for “contraband” or “illegal weapons” or sometimes just to kill the person. most of these raids of the wrong house were done on the “anonymous tip” and they swear up and down their intelligence was correct.
You bring up a very important point. Many here have heard about the “parallel construction” that Snowden revealed was being used by the DEA and the “justice” system to hide their unconstitutional use of surveillance intel provided by the NSA. We mustn’t forget that the local pigs will do the same sort of thing.
For example, the pigs might view a house through a thermal imaging camera to check for “hot spots,” which can indicate someone growing weed indoors. It’s my understanding that this is officially illegal without a warrant. However, the pigs can always do it anyway, then lie and claim they raided a house on the basis of an anonymous tip or some other allowable evidence.
I recall reading somewhere about how a group of activists, suspicious that the pigs were illegally using thermal cameras, started growing some perfectly legal plant inside a house as a decoy. Sure enough, the pigs raided them, only to find out they’d been had. I’m not sure what the aftermath was, but this is a good example of a key element of counter-surveillance: the use of decoys and deception.