Comments on: Records Sealed in Canton Drug Raid Death

By: tiffany

tiffany — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:52:18 +0000

how dare some of the people that say move on, its been two years and our family still has not got over my dad’s death, no murder,regardless of his pass he was a changed man and a good man that was willing to help anybody & every body!! everybody has a pass that doesn’t give them the right to do what they did to my father it was ”murder” i don’t care how you look at it and still two years later our family hasn’t been told any thing i mean nothing, what all because they want to protect a informant come on thats not right and that’s why they trying to cover up the truth, so before you make a dumb *** comment get your facts right!!!

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The Agitator » Blog Archive » Morning Links — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:38:45 +0000

[...] family of Darryl P. Ross, an Ohio man killed in a drug raid last year, has filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal [...]

By: Dave W.

Dave W. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:28:17 +0000

They just decided that there will be no criminal charges against the police.

By: someone who cared

someone who cared — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:10:09 +0000

I don’t give a damn what kind of info they thought they had that did not consitute killing him. I was involve with him for a year and a half on a personal level and we remained friends, he was not that kind of person. i agree with his family… we have a bunch of trigger happy cops and they were just itching to kill someone that day… He will be missed by all that knew him.

By: ktc2

ktc2 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:31:28 +0000

Yup, Bush and his criminal gang have provided the SOP for government thugs everywhere.

By: The Johnny Appleseed Of Crack

The Johnny Appleseed Of Crack — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:52:05 +0000

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

By: skootercat

skootercat — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:48:54 +0000

Interesting thought PSYOP, but I think too many well meaning people would be made examples of before any cessation of police madness. In the Netherlands before relaxation of drug laws, activists played the “Marihu Game” driving the police crazy with false arrests and searches for look-alike drug transactions. Today, most states have laws making lookalike drugs real drugs in the eyes of the law. It’s shocking we don’t/can’t remove the most egregious legislators from office for lack of oversight? The same old farts keep making the same bad laws and don’t ever question police tactics.

By: PSYOP

PSYOP — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:57:26 +0000

CI’s are absolutely disgusting! It’s my opinion that if you’re going to accuse someone of a crime, you shouldn’t be allowed to hide who you are. That’s how police states work!

What would happen if a large number of people started calling in fake tips and mailing small packages of drugs to high-ranking police and politicians? Would enough dogs, people and cops get killed to bring an end to those legitimized organize crime rackets we call police departments?

I was sizzling pissed when I read the words of the police spokesperson in the Calvo case, “the Calvos were unfortunate victims of drug dealers/evildoers who exploited the US mail system…” WTF? What? No, no. They were victims of police who routinely exploit the Bill of Rights to wage war on American citizens. Sadly, most people probably believed the former, not the latter. I really worry about the future of our once-great country…

By: Nick T

Nick T — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:53:46 +0000

Sorry, Tom, there was a delay in my post going up. Great minds or some such crap…

By: Honeyko

Honeyko — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:52:22 +0000

Expect this trick to soon be standard procedure all over the country.

The police are a mafia, pure and simple.

By: Nick T

Nick T — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:50:30 +0000

God forbid they just redact any identifying information on the CI while still handing over the records. That would be way too just and appropriate.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:19:51 +0000

I can understand the interest in protecting the CI from violent retaliation. However that could easily be achieved by redacting his name from the records. The fact that they are sealing the entire record reeks of cover-up.

Why isn’t shedding light on the circumstances that resulted in this man’s death a compelling state interest? –I think we know the answer.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:57:09 +0000

Of course they’re going to seal the records! They have to have time to get their stories straight. There’s no chance in hell that this family will get their case to court, especially in Ohio.

The 6th anniversary of my sons murder during a botched raid is approaching and this stuff still continues to amaze me! What can we as citizens do to stop the madness??

By: Danno49

Danno49 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:40:42 +0000

Silly people. The guy was a convicted felon. It doesn’t matter if he paid his debt to society long ago, he was definitely up to something and therefore deserved to die. So there really is no need to look at the facts of the case. You already know what you need to. Move along. Nothing to see here.

/sarcasm

By: Cappy

Cappy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:20:32 +0000

Sealed = Covered Up

By: Red Green

Red Green — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:50:03 +0000

Sealed for how long? Until the rat related cases come to a close? What about FOIA? Inevitabaly we could find out why an innocent man was murdered by the state…again.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:48:11 +0000

Somehow, I don’t think this is what the courts had in mind with the Miranda ruling.

By: Kieffer

Kieffer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:34:35 +0000

“The state of Ohio moves to have this information sealed due to specificity of the facts surrounding the transactions that have taken place in this matter. The revealing of these facts … may put certain parties in jeopardy,” the order says.

“Certain parties.” Yeah, like the city of Canton.

Looks like they’ve taken a page from the Bush Administration Handbook on Justice. Fuckers.

By: Highway

Highway — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:05:57 +0000

This is really saddening. So are they protecting their CI from being outed because they know that it’s some criminal lowlife that they’re paying? And they don’t want the reporters to find out who they are?

Let’s face it: the cops are creating a whole group of people, their CI’s, who are basically getting ‘protection’ in return for being spies for the cops. I’m guessing that they’re learning from the Ryan Frederick tragedy, and not letting anyone get to those CI’s to make their case look as bad.