Police to face murder charge in that death of a 92 year old ATL woman.

[AK-74me]

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Police Face Charges in 92-Year-Old Woman's Death
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Posted Feb. 8, 2007 – Prosecutors in Fulton County say they plan to seek justice for the 92-year-old Atlanta woman who was shot to death in her home by Atlanta Police by seeking criminal charges against three officers involved.

The proposed indictment against officers Gregg Junnier, Jason R. Smith and Arthur Tesler accuses them of felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, burglary, making false statements and violation of oath.

Smith is accused of falsely telling detectives that he instructed an informant to make a police-monitored drug buy at the house. Tesler is accused of lying to the FBI when he told them he witnessed such a drug buy. Junnier is accused of falsely stating that the two other officers met with the informant.

Shortly after the shooting, a local TV station interviewed an unidentified man who said he was the informant. He said the officers told him to lie about what happened and offered to pay him.

The woman, Kathryn Johnston, was shot to death on Nov. 21 after three officers, who were not in uniform, allegedly kicked down her door without knocking to respond to a report of drug activity in Johnston's home.

The woman's niece, Sarah Dozier, said she bought her aunt Kathryn the gun to protect herself and that her aunt had a permit for the gun. Dozier said that she opened fired on the officers because they didn't identify themselves and she was scared.

An autopsy found that she had been shot five or six times.

Narcotics officers said an informer had claimed there was cocaine in the home, but none was found.

Attorneys for the officers call the indictment "overbroad," but in a letter to the victim's family, District Attorney Paul Howard wrote, "The death of Mrs. Johnston constitutes one of the greatest tragedies ever to occur in Fulton County. I will not rest until every person responsible for her death is held accountable."

 

[smoothmarine187]

I see another riot coming...........

 

[itsbob]

I see another riot coming...........

White people taking to the streets becasue some of their own have been wrongfully accused??

 

[vraiblonde]

Okay, but if there were no indication of drugs in the house, why would the cops be there in the first place? I don't think some anonymous person can call in a drug report, and the cops just come busting down your door.

It also doesn't seem plausible that the cops set up a 92 year old woman.

Someone make sense of this, please.

 

[itsbob]

Okay, but if there were no indication of drugs in the house, why would the cops be there in the first place? I don't think some anonymous person can call in a drug report, and the cops just come busting down your door.

It also doesn't seem plausible that the cops set up a 92 year old woman.

Someone make sense of this, please.

Sounds more plausible to me that someone set the cops up..

 

[nomoney]

I don't think they go busting in or show up just on an anonymous tip. That's not enough for a search warrant. Question is; why whould any one give a 92 year old a gun in the first place.

 

[smoothmarine187]

White people taking to the streets becasue some of their own have been wrongfully accused??

all the people that will take to the streets when the cops are let off.

 

[chernmax]

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[Bustem' Down]

White people taking to the streets becasue some of their own have been wrongfully accused??

No, I have to go to work in the morning and don't want to waste my sick days.

 

[desertrat]

I don't think they go busting in or show up just on an anonymous tip. That's not enough for a search warrant. Question is; why whould any one give a 92 year old a gun in the first place.

Protection?

 

[sparkyaclown]

Sounds more plausible to me that someone set the cops up..

or maybe the 92 yr. old woman

 

[nomoney]

Protection?

it really protected her didn't it?

 

[smoothmarine187]

it really protected her didn't it?

At least she died knowing that she put a couple of rounds into those pesky porkers.......

 

[chernmax]

it really protected her didn't it?

Yes but it was 3 to 1 and the police had assualt weapons, pistols, body armor, tactical equipment verse her gun, robe, fuzzy slippers and 92 years of speed...

 

[Coventry17]

I don't think they go busting in or show up just on an anonymous tip. That's not enough for a search warrant.

Unfortunately, yes it is. You'd be very surprised at how little personal privacy you actually have. A search warrant would be issued and would only be found invalid in court if the cops and/or court's agent (judge or a commissioner) were acting maliciously in granting the search.

 

[itsbob]

It's purely a case of age discrimination..

If she was 38 and blasting away at the cops, no problem.. no charges filed.. but because she was 92, they're going to send the cops to jail..

Where's the outrage from AARP!!?

 

[closetrebel]

Okay, but if there were no indication of drugs in the house, why would the cops be there in the first place? I don't think some anonymous person can call in a drug report, and the cops just come busting down your door.

It also doesn't seem plausible that the cops set up a 92 year old woman.

Someone make sense of this, please.

it is also plausible that the officers could have just made a mistake and went to the wrong house like they did in New York a few years back when executing a "no knock warrant" on an apartment and the 80-something woman who lived there had a heart attack. the officers confused the apartment number or received faulty information and went to the wrong building.