Failing His Way to Higher Office
Radley Balko writes in Reasonabout P.G. County Sheriff Michael Jackson. He’s the guy who, among other things, led and defended the police actions in the set up and raid of Mayor Calvo.
Radley Balko writes in Reasonabout P.G. County Sheriff Michael Jackson. He’s the guy who, among other things, led and defended the police actions in the set up and raid of Mayor Calvo.
In the Washington Post, Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, MD, writes about his experience: I remember thinking, as I kneeled at gunpoint with my hands bound on my living room floor, that there had been a terrible, terrible mistake. … In the words of Prince George’s County Sheriff Michael Jackson, whose deputies carried…
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Imagine that. The Agitator pretty much sums it up. And here’s the story in the Washington Post. The best line is: “In the sense that we kept these drugs from reaching our streets, this operation was a success.” But, uh, you already had the drugs, remember? Then instead of taking them off the streets you…
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If you want to keep a bad drug raid from hitting the papers, I guess you shouldn’t do it to prominent white folk (see picture). Doug Donovan in the Baltimore Sun reports: [The Mayor of Berwyn Hights, Prince George County, Maryland] Calvo’s home was raided by the county Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and narcotics officers…
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This is crazy. I hate the war on drugs. Here’s part of the storyin the Washington Post. A police SWAT team raided the home of the mayor in the Prince George’s County town of Berwyn Heights on Tuesday, shooting and killing his two dogs, after he brought in a 32-pound package of marijuana that had…
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