This story causes incredible anger and frustration within me, and I am not one of the people who have been wronged by this incident. I have only heard and read the story. What happened? You can read the story here and here, but following is a brief passage from the story describing the incident.
"Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package. In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple.
Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients."
Apparently what had been happening in the community is that certain delivery company drivers (in this case a FedEx deliveryman) were being paid by drug dealers to make fake deliveries to the front porches of unsuspecting homeowners, where the packages would be taken before the homeowner arrived. In this case, the Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, Cheye Calvo, got home before the intended recipient of the drugs was able to pick them up, and he brought the package inside the house since it was addressed to his wife.
The Prince George's County Police Department, which had been investigating the dealer/deliveryman scheme, did not strike during the delivery of the drugs. They struck after Mayor Cheye brought the package inside the house. In front of the mayor's mother-in-law, who was in the kitchen cooking supper for the family, the Prince George's County Police kicked in the door and killed 2 family dogs. The actual perpetrators of the crime have been caught and charged. However, the Prince George's County Police say that they "did nothing wrong."
DID NOTHING WRONG... DID NOTHING WRONG!!!! They destroyed property, terrorized an innocent family, and killed their dogs. DID NOTHING WRONG!?!!!! HELLO!!! Has the entire world gone mad? How can this police department even begin to defend these actions? Police are out of control. They think that they can do anything to anyone without cause and then claim that they have done "nothing wrong." This is insanity. What the Prince George's County Police Department did was VERY WRONG, and some heads need to roll. The fact is that incidents like this one are happening all over the country. This one received attention because it happened to a mayor. It needs to stop here, and it needs to stop now. Police need to become accountable for their actions once again. You and I need to demand it.
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