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Title: Police raid victim Ryan Frederick convicted for act of self defense
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Published: Feb 5, 2009
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Post Date: 2009-02-05 16:21:05 by bluegrass
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In Chesapeake, Virginia, Ryan Frederick was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a burglar who was breaking down his door. It could have been worse; Frederick faced capital murder charges in the case, since the burglar was Jarrod Shivers, a police detective who was participating in a misfired marijuana raid on Frederick's home. But it also could have been better. Frederick could have received the same slap on the wrist that police officers usually get for killing innocent people during SWAT raids gone wrong. The case has been mired in controversy since the beginning. The raid was apparently sparked by a report from a freelance burglar who had earlier broken into Frederick's residence during the course of his work as a police informant who served as Fourth Amendment-evading eyes and ears for local law-enforcement. That burglar reported seeing marijuana plants growing in Frederick's home. In fact, while the resident apparently did grow a few illegal plants at one time for his own use, the crop the burglar spotted appears to have been an unrelated and perfectly legal plant -- at least, police found only a small baggie of grass when they raided the place. And raid they did. Ryan Frederick was in bed when he heard his door being knocked down. Fearing a return of the earlier burglars, he retrieved a gun and opened fire on his assailants, killing Shivers. During the trial, Frederick's neighbors testified that police made no audible announcement of their law-enforcement status, giving the man inside no warning of who he faced. For his act of self defense, Frederick was convicted of voluntary manslaughter by a jury, which rejected stiffer charges, but also recommended a maximum sentence of ten years. It's impossible to treat this incident outside the context of similar violent, paramilitary raids, which have resulted in dead people, dead pets, terrorized familes and growing divisions between good people and the law-enforcement officers who use such tactics. In the past few days, I've heard from Anita Culosi, whose son Salvatore, an optometrist, was gunned down by police in Fairfax County, Virginia, in the course of a SWAT raid over alleged sports gambing. I've also heard from Cheye Calvo, Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, whose two dogs were killed during a misfired SWAT raid on his home. Both Culosi and Calvo are pursuing justice in their respective cases, as well as reforms to ensure that nobody else has to go through what they've suffered. Which brings us back to Ryan Frederick. Frederick was lucky; unlike Salvatore Culosi, he survived the ordeal. But whereas Officer Deval Bullock was suspended for three weeks without pay for killing Culosi -- a penalty many of his fellow officers found too harsh -- Frederick will likely spend years in prison for killing Shivers. Treat people as if they're the equals of police officers? What a radical idea. Here's a more radical idea: Curtail the use of D-Day-style SWAT raids for the enforcement of laws against nonviolent activity.
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#1. To: bluegrass (#0)
The American people are a bunch of degenerate filth. What kind of society convicts a man under these circumstances? A society full of degenerate, government worshipping zombies who spend their days watching Cops, DEA, Law and Order in its various flavors and CSI in its various flavors.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
Their day is coming
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files No doubt the Jury was "carefully chosen" to exclude anyone who actually believes that citizens have rights. I have sat in a Jury Pool and I testify that they carefully exclude anyone with any sense. They want pliable milksops incapable of thinking for themselves.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
I've been called to jury duty four or five times and have never got that far. It's been cancelled every time. If I ever do get an interview, I will pretend to be the stupidest milksop in my county to get on that jury. One of the things on my "list of things to do before I die" is to vote not guilty in a drug trial, regardless of the evidence.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
The system is slimy and it's leeches are blood sucking reptilians. ;-)
4um Traitor Used to be cops would loudly announce their presence, at which points criminals would relax, since they knew the police, unlike their rivals, would not shoot them. But with asset forfeiture, announcing their presence costs the police department a lot of money. So now the police are, effectively, gang rivals.
An "Income" Tax trial would be excellent.
4um Traitor Sadly, they're for the greatest part murdering thieving robopig tazerbots.
4um Traitor Oh yes, there are several that would be good. An income tax trial, a federal or state weapons trial, a drug trial, I'm sure there are others.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 The purpose of the legal system is to protect the elites from the wrath of those they plunder.- Elliott Jackalope
Interesting twist: Frederick made local news in 2005 when he sued Dr. Sidney Loxley for $1.7 million, accusing the Chesapeake physician of medicating his mother to the point that she became addicted and later died of an overdose. Frederick’s mother, a former Chesapeake Sheriff’s Department employee, died in 2003. ... A Chesapeake doctor and his wife are under arrest, facing a 91-count federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk. Sidney S. Loxley, 62, and his wife, 39-year old Carol Dean Loxley, were also arrested Wednesday. A federal grand jury returned the indictment last month. In it, Dr. Loxley, his wife, and Orthopedic Surgeons, LTD are charged with 83 counts involving controlled substances, including conspiracy to traffic and trafficking resulting in death; seven monetary counts, including laundering and transactions in criminally derived property; and one count of removal of property to prevent seizure... "There are certain parties who are aggrieved at me over custody issues, over previous working relationships, over my finding out they embezzled from me ... (They) have joined together and made a complaint about me that is totally frivolous and fictitious." Loxley says, "They got nothing, unless somebody planted something somewhere, and eventually, they're gonna let me alone."
Indeed, indeed
4um Traitor Ah. There's more to this story than the press is letting on. Good find.
The doctor, Sidney Loxley, was later convicted in federal court of conspiracy to illegally dispense narcotics and was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. Frederick and his sister sued. The case was terminated early last year, but the court record does not give a reason.
It might be worth talking to Ryan Frederick and finding out the real story.
Sister then left the country to live with her husband in Armenia. I kid you not.
Linkie?
His sister, Amanda Frederick Arakelyan, provided some insight into the past few years of her brother's life, however, through documents she posted online to support her attempt to get her husband, a native of Armenia, into the United States. In January 2006, Frederick's grandmother died, and his sister had just moved to Armenia to be with her husband. It was a difficult time for Frederick, according to Arakelyan's application, which describes her brother's troubles as one of the main reasons she, along with her husband, needed to return to the United States. The document said Frederick was diagnosed with depression. "Since (Frederick's) sister has left he is finding it increasingly difficult to pay all of his bills and needs his sister present to help him," the application said. A complicated path led to a killing on his doorstep Kid's dad had passed away too.
They even used to knock!
We're all Ryan Frederick now.
I need a sign "We SHOOT no-knocking raiders"
4um Traitor "DUCK SEASON!" "RABBIT SEASON!" "OPEN SEASON."
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
#2. To: bluegrass, IndieTX, Lodwick, All (#0)
#3. To: Hayek Fan (#1)
#4. To: Original_Intent (#3)
No doubt the Jury was "carefully chosen" to exclude anyone who actually believes that citizens have rights. I have sat in a Jury Pool and I testify that they carefully exclude anyone with any sense. They want pliable milksops incapable of thinking for themselves.
#5. To: Original_Intent (#3)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#6. To: bluegrass (#0)
#7. To: Hayek Fan (#4)
One of the things on my "list of things to do before I die" is to vote not guilty in a drug trial
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#8. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#6)
So now the police are, effectively, gang rivals.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#9. To: Rotara (#7)
An "Income" Tax trial would be excellent.
#10. To: bluegrass (#0)
#11. To: Hayek Fan (#9)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#12. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#10)
Frederick’s mother, a former Chesapeake Sheriff’s Department employee...
#13. To: bluegrass (#12)
#14. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#13)
#15. To: bluegrass (#14)
#16. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#15)
#17. To: bluegrass (#16)
#18. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#6)
Used to be cops would loudly announce their presence
#19. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#17)
#20. To: winston_smith (#18)
They even used to knock!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#21. To: PSUSA (#2)
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"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
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