Seems execessive, doesn’t it?

One student said she was in the middle of shampooing someone’s hair when law enforcement barged in and served a search warrant.

“A frightening sight to see all these cars and suv’s coming over here this morning and blocking everything off,” says neighboring worker Cheryl Bankert.

Bankert watched from next-door to the building that law enforcement raided early Wednesday morning.

She watched people wearing guns and bullet proof vests wondering what happened.

“It really scared me because I didn’t know what was going on over there,” Bankert says.

What was going on was the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector Generals serving a search warrant for a pell grant fraud.

Don’t snicker. A pissed off beautician can do some damage with perm solution and nail file.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 25th, 2006 at 1:40 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Police Militarization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.