Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 18, 2008

Last July 29, Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Maryland was changing for an appointment when .a group of heavily armed police charged into his house

They dragged him downstairs in his underwear, handcuffed him, and detained him face-down on the floor at gunpoint along with his wife and mother-in-law.

Calvo and his family were the victims of an increasingly common outrage, a no-knock drug enforcement raid at the wrong address.

He filed freedom of information act requests regarding the conduct and training of local paramilitary police. Five months later, Calvo is still being stymied by the county police and sheriff's department, who insist that an internal review of the matter is sufficient.

Mr. Calvo, incidentally, is the Mayor of Berwyn Heights. If an elected official confronts police obstructionism of this kind, what chance for justice does a common citizen have in similar circumstances?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.