Georgia Cops Terrorize Black Woman in ‘Gestapo-Style’ Raid for a Fugitive Who Was Already In Jail — Before Ransacking Her Home and Fleeing the Scene Without an ApologyOnce again, American law enforcement agencies exposed their incompetency by raiding the home of an innocent Black woman in Georgia in search of a fugitive accused of murder who had been arrested four months earlier.
But not only had federal agents arrested Joshua Smiley in Indiana on June 20, 2023, they boasted about the capture in a press release which was reported by various local media sites at the time.
But for reasons that have yet to be explained, at least 15 law enforcement officers from the U.S. Marshals Service and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office raided the home of Cathy George at 5 a.m. on October 24, 2023, terrorizing the woman who had no connection to Smiley.
“I wasn’t shown any ID, I wasn’t shown any warrant, I wasn’t shown a search warrant, an arrest warrant, a badge,” she said in a video interview with the Institute for Justice, the national law firm that filed a lawsuit on her behalf.
“I had no clue who they were.”
The federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the U.S. Marshals Service, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and the 15 cops who raided her home, accusing them of violating her Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendment rights.
The 15 cops who ransacked her home while dressed in riot gear and terrorizing her at gunpoint threatened her with arrest if she did not inform them of the whereabouts of Smiley, who has no known ties to Georgia.
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