Quick Fix 6 | They Had the Wrong House

Greg tells Clayton about the time the police in Henry Country, GA served a No Knock Warrant to the wrong house and violated the civil liberties of a 79 year old innocent man.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I'm Greg Glad. I'm Clayton, English and this is
a war on drugs, Quick fix Clayton, I have the
crazy store. I'm about to tell you, Okay, yeah, all right.
I mean that that's kind of what we do over
here is true. Yeah, I always got a crazy story.

(00:21):
If I feel I'm gonna surprise you to this, you
know it's something yeah, yeah, high yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
I don't. I don't think we can get much crazy
what you get. This one really gets in everything we've
been talking about with the militarization of police, these swat
rais and kind of how ham fisted and you know,
people going in just not knowing what's happened. So here
it goes so Henry County. It's right outside of Atlanta.

(00:44):
It's a rural area in Georgia. Mcdonnaugh I think, yeah,
they have a swat team. They're on on a drug rate.
It's twenty eighteen. They have a no knock warrant for
an accused drug dealer. We know this because their body
cams and every officer, every cop has one. Wait for
the bank flashmans are going off. One guy just throws
one randoming into the woods. It seems like just s's

(01:06):
just to pop one off, just for fun. It's just
kind of like Roman candle style. Um. They throw flash
banks in the home of seventy nine year old Nrie Norris.
They grab Henree's arms. Seventy nine year old man has
heart problems. They twisted back and handcuffed. Um. Here's the thing,

(01:28):
seventy nine year old Nree Norris was not the target.
They had the wrong house. They walked right past the
target house without clearing it, so the no knock was
for the next door home and headed to the tree
line for the next house on the street. Henri's just
watching television squeaky clean. I think his daughter said, He's
never even had a parking ticket in his life. They

(01:53):
hit a house with a different color. It had a
separate driveway in its own mailbox and the names of
the people are on the mailbox. Well, you just got
missed it. Um. Henri had, like I said, heart conditions,
could have killed him, either from either force or just
the shock of that. Imagine. I mean, you've got explosions

(02:13):
going off in your house, You're doing it in flash bangs.
You You've got a whole team of people with guns
drawn like, yeah, and here's the kicker. They turn off
their cameras right when they realize that they fucked up. Yeah,
they they don't know how cameras work, right, And again

(02:33):
we're talking about what they did, and you know, seeing
this video just completely destroyed. Man. I hate to see
things like that. I feel bad for that man, like
just living his life. And all of this is possible
because of the War on drugs. Yeah, it is absolutely
because of the War on drugs. And this could happen
to you know, any of us. It's that it's that

(02:54):
getting in that front door, Like, how is this even
an option to be able to do this? Even if
they got the right house or anything, you know, they
got everything else, right. Um, the fact that this is
even a possibility is only because of the War on
drugs that we can have a no knock warrant and
raid someone's home because the suspicion of committing a crime.
This is what the War on drugs does. It allows

(03:14):
for these you know, civil liberty violations to happen all throughout,
regardless they have the right guy or not. War on
drugs touches everybody. Even in this case, this is somebody
who doesn't even have anything to do with drugs, but
still found explosives in his house and his dark kicked in.
I'm Clayton English and I'm Greg Glad and this has

(03:36):
been a war on drugs Quick Fix, thanks again for listening.