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American Conservative<\/h3>\n

Did Maryland Police Shoot and Kill a Sleeping Man?<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

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An initial police press release claims “firearms offenses” were involved, but now the authorities are being mum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

March 14, 2020<\/div>\n
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|<\/span>\u201cThe constitution is dead\u201d was the last tweet<\/a> ever sent by 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp.\u00a0 On Thursday morning at 4:30 a.m., a Montgomery County SWAT team killed Lemp during a violent attack on his family\u2019s home<\/a> in the affluent Washington suburb of Potomac, Maryland.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why did the SWAT team attack the home as Lemp was sleeping? The initial county police press release referred<\/a> only to \u201cfirearms offenses.\u201d County police spokeswoman Mary Davison refused to disclose either the details of Lemp\u2019s alleged offense or the affidavit used to justify the raid.\u00a0 Instead, she notified me that my press inquiries were being handled under the Maryland Public Information Act which entitles government agencies to delay responding for weeks or months.<\/p>\n

Even the search warrant used to justify the raid is reportedly sealed for 30 days. This Blue Wall of Silence is doing nothing to slow the cascade of allegations on social media that Lemp was murdered.<\/p>\n

According to Rene Sandler, a former prosecutor<\/a> who is representing the Lemp family, Montgomery County police fired into the bedroom where Lemp and his pregnant girlfriend were sleeping without warning. The gunfire was followed by two flash-bang grenades.\u00a0 The Supreme Court of North Carolina last month labeled flash-bangs a \u201cweapon of mass death and destruction<\/a>,\u201d and a 2019 federal appeals court decision<\/a> noted that flash bangs are \u201cfour times louder than a 12-gauge shotgun blast\u201d with \u201ca powerful enough concussive effect to break windows and put holes in walls.\u201d Criminal defense lawyer Clay Conrad observed in 2010<\/a>, flash-bangs are \u201cjust an assault. These things are designed to blind and deafen\u2026 You\u2019re intentionally injuring people.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when gunfire and bombs ring out at 4:30 a.m., it is not surprising that someone gets killed in the commotion.\u00a0 Montgomery County police have offered no explanation for the timing of the raid. Instead, they issued a press release late on the day of the killing announcing a \u201cpolice-involved shooting\u201d<\/a> \u2014 a weasel phrase preferred by police departments and much of the media nowadays.<\/p>\n

After Lemp, who was a software developer<\/a>, was wounded, the police handcuffed the surviving family members and his girlfriend while conducting an exhaustive search of the house. Lemp was pronounced dead at the scene. On Friday evening, the police department posted photos of five firearms<\/a> (none of which were apparently illegal in themselves) they seized during the raid but omitted including a photo of Lemp\u2019s bullet-ridden corpse.\u00a0 The police also modified their story to assert that Lemp had \u201cconfronted\u201d the police officers<\/a>.\u00a0 But this could simply mean that he stood up after the shooting or took a step towards the window from where shots were entering. The police department has not asserted that Lemp had a firearm or any other dangerous device when he was slain.<\/p>\n

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Is the version of events that Sanders offers unfair to the police?\u00a0 SWAT team members were reportedly wearing body cams. The ACLU of Maryland is demanding<\/a> that the police \u201cmust be transparent and release all body camera footage\u201d of the raid on Lemp\u2019s home.\u00a0 The county government\u2019s refusal to answer questions or to disclose the body cam footage is doing nothing to help its credibility.<\/p>\n

Why was Lemp targeted?\u00a0 Lawyer Sandler said that the search warrant referred to Lemp as a \u201cprohibited person\u201d \u2014meaning that he was prohibited from owning firearms. That could mean simply that he had a permit to use medical marijuana \u2014a violation that would apply to tens of thousands of Maryland gun owners who use marijuana despite federal law prohibiting gun<\/a>ownership combined with pot smoking. A check of Montgomery County court records<\/a> [EDIT NOTE: APPARENTLY UNABLE TO SAVE SPECIFIC PAGE WITH RECORD] revealed one offense for Lemp:\u00a0 a speeding ticket from last year. Court records state that Lemp was only 5\u2032 8\u2033 and 145 pounds but he was towering enough to terrify a SWAT team into opening fire without warning.<\/p>\n

Lemp was apparently a member of some online pro-gun groups and had allegedly expressed interest in joining a militia. His Instagram page<\/a> shows two photos with the motto \u201cSic Semper Tyrannis\u201d\u2014the Virginia \u201cThus Always to Tyrants<\/a>\u201d state motto, including one photo showing firearms held high. Checking his Facebook page<\/a> on Friday morning, I was surprised that he and I had seven mutual friends, including a savvy libertarian lawyer lady from California. Did Lemp\u2019s political beliefs or associations have any role on his fatal targeting by the Montgomery County police?<\/p>\n

Maryland has a long history of deadly SWAT raids that kill innocent people or dogs \u2014 lots of dogs. After Maryland police wrongfully raided a mayor\u2019s house and killed his canines in 2008, the legislature required police to report on every SWAT raid.\u00a0 Between 2010 and 2014, police in Maryland conducted over 8000 SWAT raids<\/a>, killing nine people and injuring almost a hundred, as well as killing 14 animals.\u00a0 Those grim statistics helped spur the Maryland legislature to end SWAT recordkeeping.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County police have refused to disclose the name of the police officer or officers who killed Lemp.\u00a0 Maryland police are protected by the so-called \u201cLaw Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights<\/a>\u201d that prohibits questioning a police officer for 10 days after any incident in which he used deadly force.\u00a0 A 2019 George Washington Law Review <\/i>nationwide survey<\/a> revealed that 98% of police chiefs believed that delaying interrogations of police after a shooting can impede\u00a0 investigations but police unions\u2019 clout prevails on this issue. One police chief commented that \u201cshowing evidence in advance allows [police] to tailor their lies to fit the evidence,\u201d while another police chief observed that that process simply gives police suspects \u201ctime to fabricate a better lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another barrier against finding the truth out about is the Potomac SWAT raid is that Maryland treats police falsifying evidence as the equivalent of jaywalking. A Baltimore police officer was found guilty in 2018 of \u201cfabricating evidence in a case<\/a> in which his own body-camera footage showed him placing drugs in a vacant lot and then acting as if he had just discovered them.\u201d\u00a0 The man who was arrested for those drugs was locked up for six months before the charge was dropped and he was released. The policeman kept his job because, as the Baltimore Sun <\/i>explained, \u201cUnder Maryland law, officers<\/a> are only removed automatically if convicted of a felony. Fabricating evidence and misconduct in office are both misdemeanors.\u201d\u00a0 An ACLU lawyer groused that<\/a> he \u201ccannot imagine a more screwed-up, idiotic way of trying to manage a police department or any other public office\u201d than continuing to employ a cop convicted for fabricating evidence.<\/p>\n

Was Duncan Lemp correct that \u201cthe constitution is dead\u201d?\u00a0 One answer will be found in whether Montgomery County police face any consequence for his death. Unfortunately, the legal playing field in Maryland is profoundly tilted in favor of official killers.<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of\u00a0<\/i>Lost Rights<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/i>Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>. He is also a\u00a0<\/i>USA Today\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i>@JimBovard<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}