The Rise of Unwarranted Paramilitary Raids in America

The Rise of Unwarranted Paramilitary Raids in America | Felonious Ramblings:

"It’s the day after Christmas in 2001. You’re 21 years old. After finally putting your 18-month-old daughter to sleep, you’re relaxing in your favorite recliner, nodding off in the flickering light of the television show you’re only half-watching and the string of Christmas lights around your front window. When you hear the sounds of someone trying to kick in your door, you run to your daughter’s bedroom; when someone does break in and kick down her bedroom door, you shoot.

It turns out the man you shot is the (white) police chief’s son, and as he dies of internal bleeding en route to the hospital you (a black man) are arrested, beaten so badly you bleed from your ear for a week, and are left on death row for five years following the bogus conviction (until a judge overturns what was obviously a wrongful sentence). The drugs the cops were looking for — using a warrant that named no one in your household — were never discovered. This is the case of Mississippian Corey Maye, who is still locked up."