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On June 14, 2023, the United States Marshals Service listed Joshua Smiley on the “15 Most Wanted” list. He was the 26 year-old male suspect in an August 2021 shooting death of a man in Mobile, Alabama. On June 20, 2023, about a week after Joshua Smiley was put on the most wanted list, he was peacefully apprehended in Avon, Indiana – a suburb of Indianapolis. It was no big deal. They found him in just a couple of days, called him out, he came out and was arrested with no issues. It was a success. So why did the US Marshals raid Cathy George’s home in Sandy Springs, Georgia three months later?
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Congressman, legislator, judges, prosecutor, and cops. Everybody that is suppose to be public servants end up hurting the public far more than any criminal could or would. The biggest insult is we're paying them for this type of tyrannical behavior and contempt towards the public, yet no one seems to be doing anything to change our highly flawed and biased system. Where are the bills?
It seem like the people get a new law every year taking away more and more of our freedoms while cop get protect for all manner of harm they cause to the community. A shootout in rush hour traffic to catch jewelry store thieves. And despite bullet from both side, only bullets from the police that kill two innocent bystander caught in the cross fire.
Yet not a single legislator with talk of restricting these 19th century cowboy behavior by the cops endangering the lives and safety of the public.
To Protect and Serve? I think not. More like to Kill and Terrorize.
The Supreme Court has given the federal government near absolute immunity in practice. They have ruled that citizens can only sue when the legislature has written a law that allows lawsuits for the situation.
Get Afroman on this case.
Imagine being this frickin stupid? I guess you would join SWAT.
And what cost of all those constables to the public, i presume they cost the same as English police constables for example £85 -£90 an hour per officer. This is without doubt a modern day version of Entick v Carrington 1765, this case was the inspiration for the fourth amendment.
Nathan Carrington and the other three Kings Messengers had no valid search warrant to search the house and newspaper business of John Entick.
Seemingly nothing has been learned. All the best from England in sorting out this debacle .
Wow! Then we talk shit about other countries. Smh.
What kind of Keystone Cops bullshit is this?! But since they're Fed's, Trump's dumb ass moat likely gutted their funding & numbers so they can fuck up like this. Spent all thr Govt'd money on ICE & CBP.
What would you do without the low IQ armed Government agents? These cops are not even qualified to run a nail salon.
Good cops do not exist.
The woman might need to consider finding another attorney. This attorney does not seem to know much about anything. It has been almost three years this coming June 2026. And still no action or trial? Get another attorney before it is too late. No one involved in this is going to apologize. Law enforcement and government is never going to admit they are wrong. They are the epitome of the human ego. Use your energy in a more constructive fashion, not in demanding an apology.
She should get 10 mil no questions asked
Yer and will you fix my door?
As fast as I'm concerned, the top 15 most wanted, are the 15 cops who did this, they should be apprehended and brought to justice.
We're in a sad position. When police and prosecutors and judges get immunity. When lawsuits actually do happen, we the people have to pay it. Imagine knowing you can't get fired from a job even when the company gets sued. You can hurt someone and still not be criminally charged. As long as you're a part of the criminal organization known as the Thin Blue Line=(Cops).
She lived in this kind of condo because she thought it was a safe place. The government proved that was a lie.
Each officer should have to carry some type of insurance to cover civil suits instead of tax dollars spent. Termination and certification revocation ( end qualified immunity) on any officer that violates an individuals rights. Citizens are held accountable for their actions and law enforcement should not get a pass just because they are actors acting as stewards of the courts.
When stupidity intersects with incompetence and insanity.
I lived there. We referred to them as the DeKalb County roundup Rangers because they were such asshats. They only lived to give out tickets and made up shit to get ticket money even as far back as 1978…
the cops haven't commented because they are still making up a fake story and printing up some fake documents
Couldn't find their butthole with their own finger.
The bootlicker who gave these cops entrance to the entire complex are now criminals , and asking them for keys and what not in the first place is criminal , before any of the other nonsense took place…
egregious, criminals, they all need to be charged.
What a coincidence that you make this video now, watching the new episode of Marshals and it’s literally the same type of story, top 15 fugitive but arrested 5 days ago in a jail cell 1,000miles away.
Apparently even Hollywood is making shows about U.S. Marshals chasing people who are already in jail
All that money doesn’t buy intelligence we see
With an INSANE president it's not surprising you get insane government agents.
The gov is your biggest enemy
Oh – It’s pronounced
Deh-Kab County. The L in DeKalb is silent!
She had a legal firearm in the property what happened did these idiots find it or run serial number etc
Sue the uniform’s off those obviously stupid people. The title of police officer has become synonymous with stupidity, corruption and grossly incompetent. They have become the criminals to fear.
Da fck???! 😮
WHAT??????? I haven’t watched the video yet and I am already facepalming. Come on be honest is this Monty Python?
Edit: 10 to 15 minutes to search a 2 bedroom flat for a person?! This is Monty Python. Life of Brian where the Romans search the home and find nothing.
these stories just keep getting worse and worse in terms of how stupid and lazy these cops are
It’s not stupidity.
It wasn’t an accident.
It’s Sandy Springs.
Trying to stay mainly white.
Trying to keep those Rich people shopping:
I used to work there. Great place to work in Luxury Jewelry.
It’s just racism.
No one wants to say it but…
12:11 well, thanks to qualified immunity, there is no consequence and with no consequence, there is no justice.
That's so so so incredible.
Looks like police is NOT THERE to help citizen's but ONLY to cover each other.
Dekalb county 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 these guys are the main reason i moved my black ass to hawaii
If she sues the condo company in their individual capacity, they would then have to subpoena the officers to testify, provide a copy of the warrants and etc. Qualified immunity doesnt mean that they don’t have to testify, nor does it mean that you can’t sue them after suing the building complex. Thats the most simplistic way to maneuver past the qualified immunity or the hurdles.
This screams "deliberate"
I'm not trying to downplay what happened but I'm trying to wrap my brain around a supposed gun owner talking about "the nozzles of machine type weapons" 🤯
Thats what happens when the illustrious law enforcement officers share a single brain cell. Absolutely Unbelievable.
Isnt this a good place to go after their bonds
Guess that's why these idiots are on a SWAT team; they couldn't make it as Door Dash drivers.
Atlanta and Feds used that for a mass training action!!!
Man, the Feds are getting fat. Half those officers on the raid are morbidly obese. WTF?
I thought that the video about the officer mistaking the sound of an acorn hitting the roof of his patrol car
for a gunshot—and subsequently shouting I'm hit! I'm hit! while opening fire on his own vehicle until his firearm was empty could not be topped. Boy, was I wrong.
A friendly reminder this was under the Biden US Marshals admin.
So they barged in without a warrant. They were probably drinking and stroking themselves about how macho they are, that they believed themselves. And from there, they suited up and stuff, all sustained by their own macho hot air
Long story short, forget pets America, open fire and dump as may rounds into the the front door is possible. Only in America do people value pets more than their own lives. It’s disgusting