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[francoi...@spirtech.com]

by his brother in the murder,
# and he committed suicide by jumping into Boston Harbor.
#
# An elderly Methodist minister, described as a quiet and dignified man
# who has for decades comforted and counseled people throughout the
# Caribbean and struggled against drug abuse on the islands, died Friday,
# when a SWAT team burst into his apartment unannounced, looking for drugs.
#
# They misread a floor plan by "an informer."
#
# The same Drug Control Unit was investigated for a death in 1988, and it
# was revealed that their officers routinely FABRICATED INFORMERS to obtain
# search warrants.
#
# The agents chased the 75-year-old minister to his room, then broke through
# his bedroom door...he became so frightened while being handcuffed that he
# began vomiting and collapsed. He died a few minutes later.
#
# The Reverand Accelynne Williams was a scholar who could read Greek and
# Hebrew.

The New York Times, CyberTimes, April 29, 1997

The Police and Civil Liberties

A unanimous Supreme Court affirmed the importance of civil liberties
yesterday when it ruled against exempting ALL drug raids from the Fourth
Amendment's requirement that police executing a search warrant knock and
announce their presence before entering someone's hom