Wow. The APD is screwed! Now the informant they used to justify the raid is saying he was told to lie about buying drugs at the old lady's house. Balko has the details at
www.theagitator.com.
So, did the cops get him to lie, or is he lying now?
Doesn't really matter, either way.
From Balko:
Attack the informant's credibility and you admit that you conducted a high-risk, forced-entry raid based entirely on a tip from an informant you now say is unreliable. You admit you did no corroborating investigation. You admit you didn't even send an officer to check to see if the informant was right about, for example, an external surveillance system. And all of this ineptitude led to the death of an innocent woman, not to mention to three officers getting wounded.
And that's if the guy's lying about the cover-up. If he's telling the truth? Now you're talking about a major-league *expletive deleted*it storm. If this guy's telling the truth, not only did the officers originally investigating this case lie, but the officers investigating after the shooting then lied to cover it up. That means you not only have corruption problems with your narcotics officers, but you have problems with your internal affairs unit, the cops who are charged with investigating the other officers.
In another update, it looks as though the judge's signature may have been forged the warrants.
