… “I heard a loud crash and men screaming, ‘Buffalo Police, police, police, search warrant, police, police,’ over and over again, yelling,” Maisha Drayton recalled. “I heard my son Xavier screaming, ‘Don’t shoot, don’t shoot,’ because he came out of his bedroom, and I heard them screaming, ‘Get on the ground, get on the ground.’ “
They put both Draytons in handcuffs while they searched for drugs. At the time, Maisha Drayton was the senior director of staff development at Evergreen Health Center, a nonprofit organization that helps people with chronic illnesses, and Xavier was 16. …
A female office asked Drayton, “You know why we’re here, don’t you?” Drayton testified at a deposition. “And she said, ‘Because there are drugs in your house.’ “
The officer said, “When we find these drugs, you’re going to jail and they’re going to take your kids,” Drayton testified.
But no drugs, guns or stacks of money were found. …
Well, good thing I’m poor! No stacks of legally earned cash for the Buffalo PD to ‘arrest’!
I’m worried that sooner or later they will start taking ATM cards because “You might have bought drugs with it”. At least that’s easier to cancel than cash.