Plea deal on table for officer in fatal no-knock drug raid

[Jacey]

This was talked about several months ago when it initially happened.

Recap- A no-knock warrant was served on an alleged drug house in a bad neighborhood. An elderly woman fired her pistol on the officers who were breaking into her house and was killed. Many on here said it was a justified killing, haven't recalled seeing any updates.

A former Atlanta police narcotics officer has reached a tentative plea deal with federal and state authorities in a botched drug raid that resulted in the shooting death of an elderly woman, according to a person close to the investigation.

Gregg Junnier could have faced state murder charges in the Nov. 21 raid at the home of Kathryn Johnston. The deal was reached Tuesday after federal and state prosecutors met with Junnier and his legal team at the offices of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2007/04/12/metshoot0412a.html

This isn't exactly something new with Atlanta police, a related article.

Police shooting sparks outrage: Family says men were not armed

Civil rights activists and family members of a 26-year-old man shot and killed outside a bar Sunday by Fulton County police accused officers of excessive force.

"They murdered my son," Roy Pettaway Jr. said Sunday regarding the death of his son, Ron.

Fulton County police Cpl. Gary Syblis declined to address the allegations, but said Ron Pettaway and his brother, Roy Pettaway III, 27, also wounded in the shootout, got into an altercation with officers when they arrived to break up a fight at the Frozen Palace at 2395 Flat Shoals Road near College Park.

Family members and supporters said the brothers were unarmed. Police declined to say whether the men were unarmed, adding that they are in the early stages of an investigation into the shooting.

"[Roy] saw his brother with his hands behind his back before any shooting happened," the Rev. Markel Hutchins, a family spokesman, said late Sunday outside the bar at a news conference.

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2007/04/16/metshoot0416b.html

 

[nightflight]

I fear police.

 

[Mr.Pious]

no-knock warrant, that is a terrible idea...

Lets bust into an alleged drug dealers house without announcing who we are, I doubt he would have a gun or shoot intruders.

 

[CaDan]

It looks, reading between the lines, that the false statements made under oath by the cops to get the warrant have been discredited.

SpaceCat hopes they go for the perjury conviction, too.

 

[StrangerThings]

Too bad that old woman didn't kill a few of those criminals with badges on her way out.

 

[Jacey]

Should I be shocked and surprised that no one who supported the cops is back to admit they were wrong?

 

[CaDan]

Should I be shocked and surprised that no one who supported the cops is back to admit they were wrong?

No. Just vaguely amused.

It's the only way to stay alive and sane.

 

[RacismIsBad]

I remember seeing this case awhile back, it's sad to think that there were so many saying this old woman got what she deserved.

 

[Morcova]

He shouldn't have been offered a plea deal.

 

[CCGirl]

Too bad about the plea deal.