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- From: Matt.Giwer@f326.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Matt Giwer)
- Subject: WOD: Scott raid update 3/3
- Message-ID: <1993Jun28.224931.21888@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 22:49:31 GMT
-
- * Forwarded by MATT GIWER from the f-Politics conference.
- * Original from GARY STEINWEG to MATT GIWER on 06-23-93.
-
- L.A. TIMES, MARCH 31, 1993
-
- This is an update on the L.A. County Sheriff's deadly raid on 61
- year-old reclusive millionaire Donald P. Scott's scenic 200 acre
- Malibu Canyon ranch. Mr. Scott had refused on several occasions
- to sell his property to the state. He was then raided and shot
- to death when he responded to his wife's screams with a gun in
- his hand. Mr. Scott, having just had eye surgery, could not see
- very well, but started to lower his gun when officers at a
- distance identified themselves and told him to drop the gun. It
- is at this time he was shot.
-
- Shortly after the shooting, Mr. Scott's attorney accused the
- assault team (consisting of L.A. Sheriff's Deputies and Federal
- Drug Enforcement Officers), of staging the raid simply to seize
- land that was otherwise unavailable. The Sheriff's Department
- was, of course, indignant that anyone could suggest such a thing.
-
- A 5 month investigation by Ventura County Dist. Atty. Michael
- Bradbury has just been completed. It is his findings that the
- raid WAS staged in order to seize Scott's $5M ranch and there was
- NO LEGAL JUSTIFICATION for the raid. His evidence includes a
- copy of the pre-raid briefing which contained local area property
- value appraisals and the key finding that the Deputy securing the
- search warrant used FALSE information to do so, then led the
- multi-agency assault team to the isolated ranch in hopes of
- finding drugs.
-
- It is my understanding that even with this evidence, the District
- Attorney is reluctant to prosecute any of the assault team
- individually. Scott's widow and attorney, on the other hand, are
- demanding that the officer who shot her half-blind husband be
- tried for murder.
-
- COMMENT: The common defense for shootings of this type consists
- of "the officer's life was in danger." That seems to relieve the
- shooter of any personal responsibility.
-
- Unfortunately, with the various government assault teams more and
- more using flash-bang tactics in the dead of the night, the death
- toll of INNOCENT people will continue to rise, ...and no one will
- be held accountable.
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