Overkill Is the Default Setting in Today's Police State
POSTED August 10, 8:33 PM


Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife walk their black
Labs before they were executed by P.G. County
SWAT.


As many of you no doubt are aware, the home of Berwyn Heights, Md., Mayor Cheye Calvo was raided on July 29 because someone delivered at 32-pound box of marijuana to his front steps. I wrote about it here after it happened, and just yesterday the Washington Post reported that the mayor and his family have been cleared of any supposed wrongdoing.

Of course, they weren't offered so much as an apology by the county, and both of Calvo's dogs are still dead, killed instantly as P.G. County stormtroopers invaded his house while executing an illegal search -- police were granted a standard search warrant, though spokesmen at the time of the raid said they were granted a "no-knock" warrant.

As I explained yesterday in an article on LewRockwell.com, overkill is the default setting for many, if not most, of today police departments. Surely the police were aware that anyone could have deliverd a package to the mayor's house unbeknownst to the family, or that, as mayor, Calvo very likely could have been the target of a political attack. But it mattered not, as P.G. County SWAT -- endorsed by (now-resigned) Police Chief Melvin High and Sheriff Michael Jackson, who still fails to see any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the police force -- decided to initiate a violent home invasion anyway, turning a peaceful situation into an otherwise deadly one. All over a box of dried plants.

This case is nothing short of an atrocity. If the police think nothing of violating the property rights of a peaceable mayor, how much do you think they actually care about you? Every P.G. County commander who either authorized or had knowledge of this raid should be fired immediately and indicted on criminal assault charges.

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