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Police officers: Have you ever had to arrest a person that you personally did not think should be arrested? What was the situation?

A police officer commented with as bellow.

Only once.

Years ago I was working a regional task force that took down a major NE USA drug trafficking ring. One of the witnesses was a young lady who happened to be the girlfriend of one of the major targets and she provided valuable information to the local authorities to use in locating her then ex-boyfriend.

Although local police were providing security for fear that the young lady would be the victim of revenge, local police failed and she was murdered right in front of her child by three suspects. Evidence at the scene helped identify the three suspects, one of which was the ex-boyfriend also wanted on drug trafficking charges.

Two of the suspects were located at what at the time was the gang’s social club & recreation center and during the execution of the warrant a number of individuals were taken into custody, but one the suspects was exterminated when he tried to access a weapon. Another suspect in the assassination of the witness was taken into custody.

The girl’s mother was extremely distraught and, of course, rightly so. I had previously spoken to the daughter and the mother a few times during the course of events and seeing what happened truly broke my heart. The mother was now taking care of the granddaughter and while waiting for the city to settle her claims, some of us took up a collection to help her.

One day the woman called me and asked me if I could visit her as she had something extremely urgent to tell me. I was at lunch and I told her I would be there ASAP. When I arrived the woman opened the door and acknowledging that she was fine, I stepped in and froze — it was clear to see there had been a blood bath and what appeared to be a couple of dozen large bloody chunks of meat on the floor. It was the ex-boyfriend of her daughter.

The woman immediately told me, “I had to do it.” I asked if she were injured and if there were others in the house and she replied “No” to both questions. I then told her not to say anything else and to sit down and remain seated while assistance arrived.

I told local police that I would be the one to take her to our operations center and I took her and her granddaughter and, although she was technically under arrest, I refused to handcuff her. In fact, what I wanted to do was give her a medal and a ticker-tape parade. In route she started telling that the ex-boyfriend had just appeared in her home uninvited and started talking to her about her daughter had to be “taken care of” because “she wouldn’t just STFU” and that he now expected the lady to have learned the lesson to keep her mouth shut, too.

To this day I have no idea how she did it, but she produced a knife and without warning drove it into him over 75 times and sliced him up into shish kebab. And, in my opinion, rightly so.

At our offices I made it clear that the woman had not said a word and that she had invoked her right to remain silent. Nobody was permitted to question her and I told her to keep her mouth shut. I was not going to tell anybody what she said. I let her stay with her granddaughter until it was time to take her to jail and only at the entrance of the jail I put her in handcuffs because that was a requirement.

We later spoke with the state’s attorney and I’m not sure how or what he did, but within a day or two the woman was home with her granddaughter. The only thing she was ever convicted of was mutilation of a corpse with a slap on the wrist (and a pat on the back) and even that was ultimately expunged.

The granddaughter ultimately went on to college, graduated with honors and is to this day still living with her grandmother.

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