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The trial of Ryan Frederick, the Chesapeake man who shot and killed a police officer during a narcotics raid on his home, will remain in local courts, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Special prosecutor Paul Ebert had requested that the trial be moved to a different location because of the publicity the case has generated and the passion it has evoked in Frederick’s home town. But Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge Marjorie A.T. Arrington preferred to keep the trial in Chesapeake, though she said if lawyers could not satisfactorily seat a local jury she would consider moving the trial.

Frederick, 29, is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Detective Jarrod Shivers last January. Shivers, 34, was one of several officers attempting to forcibly enter Frederick’s home on Jan. 17 after an informant told police that Frederick was growing marijuana plants. Frederick has maintained that he thought intruders were breaking into his home and fired two shots through the door in self-defense.

His trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 20.

Has maintained that he thought intruders were breaking into his home? That’s because intruders broke into his home.

Whatever happened to a warrant and the 4th Amendment?

www.buffalonews.com

Armed with a battering ram and shotguns, Buffalo police looking for heroin broke down the door and stormed the lower apartment of a West Side family of eight.

The problem is that the Wednesday evening raid should have occurred at an apartment upstairs.

And, that’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to Schavon Pennyamon, who lives at the mistakenly raided apartment on Sherwood Street with her husband, Terrell, and six children.

Pennyamon alleges that after wrongly breaking into her apartment, police proceeded to strike her epileptic husband in the head with the butt end of a shotgun and point shotguns at her young children before admitting their mistake and then raiding the right apartment.

She says she’s left with a broken door, an injured husband, jittery children and — what bothers her most — still no apology from police.

“They know they did something wrong and they were still ignorant,” said the 29-year-old Pennyamon. “At first, I just wanted an apology. Now, because they want[ed] to be ignorant and rude, I have to take it to the next level.”

She filed a report with the department’s Professional Standards Division and also contacted Mayor Byron W.

Brown about the incident. Pennyamon said Friday evening she also has retained a lawyer and intends to pursue legal action.

I just woke up to this story. A little hazy from sleep, I had to read it twice. Another family victimized by the War on Drugs and the US Police State while piglets go on “paid vacation” as the situation gets investigated internally. I can recall two incidents in the last month where police raid the wrong house with excessive force all in the name of the War on Drugs: Minneapolis and Berwyn Heights.

Three strikes and you’re out, right?

…right?