I ignored this story as just another “local cops do bad” until I saw it linked about ten times over the weekend, attesting to the power of having video:<\/p>\n
Dallas News: Did Garland police officers violate a homeowners\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights?<\/a> by Tanya Eiserer<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The surveillance cameras at a Garland home captured something unexpected: Police officers rummaging through duffel bags, searching a pickup parked in the front driveway and turning a surveillance camera in the back yard.<\/p>\n In early February, the officers were looking for Jon Locke\u2019s brother, Christopher, a convicted felon with an arrest warrant accusing him of fraud. Jon Locke says his brother doesn\u2019t live with him and he and his wife are upset that police officers took it upon themselves to conduct searches on his property without permission.<\/p>\n \u201cI just want an apology,\u201d said Jon Locke, 32.<\/p>\n Joe Harn, a Garland police spokesman, declined to comment, citing the ongoing internal affairs investigation. But a Garland police internal affairs investigator who met with the family told the Lockes that he did not have a problem with the actions the officers took and also acknowledged that he thought one of the officers had opened an unlocked back door to look into the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Videos here<\/a>, linked from YouTube.<\/p>\n Back to blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" b2evALnk.b2WPAutP Continue reading