Cops Terrorize Innocent Couple at Home on Off Chance a Fugitive Might Be Present
A US Marshal at the scene was offended the coupe went to the press
After leaving her operating room scrub nurse duties at Sarasota's Doctors Hospital on Wednesday, Louise Goldsberry went to her Hidden Lake Village apartment.
Her boyfriend came over, and after dinner — about 8 p.m. — Goldsberry went to her kitchen sink to wash some dishes.
That's when her boyfriend, Craig Dorris — a manager for a security alarm company — heard her scream and saw her drop to the floor.
Goldsberry, 59, said she had looked up from the sink to see a man "wearing a hunting vest."
He was aiming a gun at her face, with a red light pinpointing her. …
Then she set the gun down and walked out, shaking and crying, and also was quickly handcuffed.
They remained cuffed for close to half an hour as the apartment was searched for a wanted man who wasn't there, never had been, and who was totally unknown to them.
They were shown his picture.
Then they were released, the police left, and that was that.
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Seems like this kind of thing is happening more frequently.
Like the malicious SWAT-ing of poltical partisans.