San Francisco police chief defends controversial search of reporter’s home

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The chief’s explanation offers the fullest explanation yet of why police arrived at Carmody’s home, armed with a sledgehammer, to seize his notebooks, computers, hard drives and other equipment.

Carmody, a veteran journalist, has said he obtained the report from his source and sold a package of his reporting, which included the document, to Bay Area TV stations.

Although he stressed he wasn’t defending the conduct of his rank and file, Scott sought to justify their tactics, including the use of a sledgehammer. “There are some lessons to be learned here. We’re very humble about taking a critical review of this.”the agency would return Carmody’s equipment.

 

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Signs of the Times. This is how it starts, then books, then speech, then businesses, then property, then id's, then tattoos, then name tags, then camps, then deja vu all over again.

So was there a warrant at all? Or was it “Cops being Cops” right johncardillo ?

hrazaamom Wow. I hope the cops got a digital copy image of the hard drive. Because that's the accepted practice of the FBI.

An explanation without evidence is an excuse ... a lie ... empty SFPD

SFPD chief is a felon now.

SF police chief should be behind bars over this

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