Commentary

Fight Abusive Police and Prosecutors

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, November 30 2011

Even the worst of political adversaries – the most misguided, misleading and even mendacious – should be free from dangerously abusive SWAT-team actions. Barbara Arwine, executive director of the execrable Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, had her home searched by a gun-wielding SWAT team from Maryland’s Prince George’s County Police Department on November 21. Originally she claimed the raiders refused even to produce a search warrant and said “The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply here.” Prince George’s now says they did indeed…

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