Police Raid Home of Los Angeles Teen Who Was Bailed Out Last Month

Jeremy Marks spent seven months in jail for videotaping police

Just over a month after he was bailed out of jail by a Google engineer, Jeremy Marks was rudely awakened by almost 30 Los Angeles police officers who raided his home, seizing computers, cell phones and cameras as they ransacked his family's home.

The incident took place Wednesday, according to a website called Liberation, which bills itself as the "newspaper for socialism and liberation."

So far, the Los Angeles Weekly, which has been on top of this story from the beginning, has not mentioned anything about a raid.

According to Liberation:

As the search ended three hours later, the house interior was unrecognizable. In addition to electronic equipment, Jeremy’s notes, papers and legal documents were seized—many of these documents are privileged attorney-client communications.

Every item used to communicate with the outside world about Jeremy’s case was taken from every member of Jeremy’s family, including his parents’ and siblings’ personal possessions.

The raid took place as Jeremy’s mother was attempting to gather herself and bring her kids and the neighbor’s kids to school. The neighbor’s children were at the front door when police came up with shields and shotguns ready.

Pittman recounted to Liberation at the scene that she shouted, “Let me get my granddaughter! Let me get my granddaughter!” as the police barged into the house. Pittman also demanded to wake up her son, Jeremy.

While it might seem far-fetched to some that police would go as far as raiding the home of a citizen who was arrested for merely videotaping police, we've seen it happen in the Anthony Graber case and in the case of a Phoenix man who was raided after he was critical of police on his blog.

The apparent raid on Marks' home was ordered by the district attorney's office who is trying its best to send Marks to prison for seven years for "attempted lynching" because it claims the teen yelled "kick her ass" during a struggle between a female cop and a 15-year-old male student who was allegedly smoking something.

But it's obvious who is doing the real lynching here.

Comments

Sadly, it doesn't seem far-fetched at all anymore.

Commenters Packratt and rightcoast helpfully provided a Reddit link

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut/comments/fapfq/la_police_continue_to_abuse_jeremy_marks_the_boy/c1ekfrx

with the Google engineer confirming over at The Agitator.

It's a good thing none of the family members resisted. 30 cops waving guns around in the presence of kids is a recipe for disaster. This was nothing more than jackboot tactics designed to intimidate Jeremy Marks into taking the rotten plea deal offered by the DA. I hope he tells the DA and cops to fuck off and takes it to trial.

hal

he may not have the money to take it to trial, the BUTTHEADS have all of our tax money to do things like this, now one has to wonder, where will it end? wasnt LA the part of calif where they couldnt even convict o.j.?
i mean with all that evidence and all....what a joke LA has become, they all should be in prison and ill make sure no one can find the key!

hal

I was reading a bit more on this story I had found online and let me tell ya, i sure hope we dont have any l.a. transplanted LEO's down here in south florida, hell no, we have our problems here but i don't think something like that would happen around this area of south FLORIDA, in the TAMPA area perhaps....but not down here.
but then again, maybe in the south miami beach area and the local media hasn't reported on it. like many area's of the country, the local Government's here are a joke, as is the media in this area!

Sure would like to see a copy of that search warrant. It would probably clear up some things.

Johnny Law, I appreciate your perspective on these cases.
I cant help but wonder what your take is for this site. My reading indicates people are being detained and arrested for nothing illegal. A painful acknowledgment for any good cop.

As a second amendment activist, I have seen the same conduct for open carry, legal in the state of Ohio.

Carlos, I posted the first comment on this story yesterday, and now it's not here. What gives?

I think this accidentally got posted twice, it shows up twice in my RSS reader.

hal

Michael Kerney: that happen to me a few times, posted twice, seems if i am not patient, and wait for it to go thru, and mess with it at all, it catches the same post, and posts it twice. seems to not happen if i am patient and wait for it to go thru, without doing anything else.
see this one didnt get post twice,,.. lol i hope

Sorry, my "this" was referring to this actual blog post, not the comments.

http://www.pixiq.com/article/police-raid-home-of-los-angeles-teen

and

http://www.pixiq.com/article/police-raid-home-of-los-angeles-teen-0

both show up in Google Reader (still) though Carlos has deleted the second post by now. I imagine there was some problem with Pixiq's blog engine or the RSS feed.

Hey J Law,
You mean like how the cops illegally seized legal documents they would have access to in the court proceeding?

Bone chilling. The cops are being watched by the world on this one and this is how they react.

The kid may be poor now but he won't be for long. If the cops don't wack him and his mother first. Might as well just do them on the front lawn for f**k sake.

You have no idea what the police seized or why. If they seized something based on probable cause in a signed search warrant then there was nothing illegal about the seizure.

Maybe that word doesn't mean what you think it means.

Stop acting like you know what is going on.

I REALLY want to hear you justify the actions of these Nazis this time Johnny Law. Although a search warrant on an innocent teen 8 months after the fact is most likely how your force would operate. In your mind.

School us ungrateful/undeserving civilians.

Pretty Please.

I can't justify it because I don't know what probable cause was used to get the warrant and I don't know what items the warrant allowed them to seize.

It's the same reason you can't condemn it. Lack of information = lack of information.

Stop being a stubborn moron and just admit you don't know what you are talking about (again).

Oh and +1 for getting frustrated and throwing out the predictable Nazi comment.

Cops = doughnuts = nazis = teen in jail for 8 months for committing no crime.

"In addition to electronic equipment, Jeremy’s notes, papers and legal documents were seized—many of these documents are privileged attorney-client communications."

Until evidence is provided showing this to be a lie, we do know in general what was seized.

hal

now then, we are talking "search warrants", legal or illegal. and i am sure i will be corrected...etc., if the warrant was not produced before the search, everything found in that same search, even after the warrant was produced could not, or/and should not be able to be used in any criminal court of Law!
if this was not true, then police could do searches all day long, then get the "search warrant" hours or even days after the "search"! in some cases, that could be what they are very well doing!
Makes one think hard about that type of crap, and if someone in the house they own, has a video/audio going 24/7 and catches police doing this, [ say the tape shows the cops saying, hell with you, we dont need to show you crap, we are not even required to have a search warant], could they be charged with wiretapping? it goes without saying the cops didnt know they were being recorded, and if they did they sure as hell would not have given consent!
{after THAT search, of course the police to CYA, produce one}

Police aren't required to show the search warrant prior to entering the home. They just have to provide a copy when they are done.

For example I have sat on a house and watched it to make sure the bad guy doesn't leave while another detective is getting a warrant signed by a judge. Once the warrant is signed, the detective called me and we hit the house immediately and without the warrant in hand. It doesn't have to be physically present.

The same goes for arrest warrants. I have arrested people on traffic stops for warrants that pop up in my computer but I don't have the actual warrant with me. Some sidewalk lawyers have tried to demand to see it before complying and they ended up with additional charges.

Just how hard is it to park your crime copter on a house?

Inquiring morons want to know.

Why didn't they show the search warrant before searching?

Really fishy!

Next, watch out for fabricated evident!

I wonder if they rent or own? If they rent, odds are the landlord will now evict them and sue for the damages done. Cops will do this, make a family homeless, go after the wage earner (cops call employers and tell them to terminate them), wipe out a family's finances, basically leave them down and out on the street. They call in social workers to remove other children, putting them in foster care. I've seen this tactic before, the cops tried it with me. I sent my family to a friend out of state who lived out in the sticks. We fought back but then it was a small PD, not LAPD.

This is all training they receive courtesy of the feds. It's really too bad the cops don't go after REAL criminals with such zeal! We wouldn't have much crime if they did.

Photography is NOT a crime! We have the same problem in the Bay Area with BART right now. People got a murder by a BART cop on video and now they're removing cell service.

hal

BART has the power to shut down CELL towers, very interesting, its the PMD's and not BART. bart is just doing as they are told, just like COPS do.

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