By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 14:05:00 | Updated at 2024-10-31 13:36:24
23 hours ago
Shocking video shows Ariz. grandma falsely arrested by US Marshals at gunpoint: ‘I felt like I was being kidnapped’
NY Post ^ | October 30, 2024 | Alex Oliveira
Posted on 10/30/2024 6:56:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman who they thought skipped out on probation 25 years ago — but they got the wrong person and instead pulled their guns on a grandmother who had never heard of the suspect.
“I truly felt like I was being kidnapped,” 66-year-old Penny McCarthy told ABC 15 after the outlet obtained bodycam footage from the arrest.
“Turn away. Turn around. Turn away. We’ll discuss it later. Turn away. You’re gonna get hit,” the officers roared at her.
“Can you prove you’re the police?” McCarthy asked — but the officers refused to even show any identification or warrant until she allowed herself to be cuffed, the footage showed.
“You see that we’re the police,” officers instead replied.
“How can I see that?” she responded.
“If you turn around again, you’re gonna get tased,” an officer warned. “I am so disappointed in my government. It’s not funny.”
McCarthy was going about her day at home outside Phoenix on March 5, when a van full of people claiming to be US Marshals pulled up and pointed heavy rifles in her face, telling her she was under arrest.
Astonished, McCarthy asked them to verify that they had the right person — pleading with them to just “tell me who I am” — but the officers refused, and instead yelled at her to give herself up.
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U.S. Marshalls got some 'splainin' to do!................
1 posted on 10/30/2024 6:56:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
To: Red Badger
“The US Marshals are above the law. That’s what it says to me. And the United States government allows that to happen,” she lamented.
2 posted on 10/30/2024 6:57:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
>>“I truly felt like I was being kidnapped,” 66-year-old Penny McCarthy told ABC 15
That’s because she truly WAS being kidnapped...
3 posted on 10/30/2024 6:59:58 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
To: Red Badger
Is there any Federal Agency that Harris-Biden hasn’t bastardized?
4 posted on 10/30/2024 7:00:08 AM PDT by donozark (If the intelligentsia are so smart, why are they always the first ones to be shot?)
To: Red Badger
government goons. your tax dollars at work.
5 posted on 10/30/2024 7:00:48 AM PDT by wny
To: Red Badger
A purposeful “whoops” that will affect others.
6 posted on 10/30/2024 7:03:03 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: Red Badger
Why’d they get stuck with “heavy rifles”. US Marshalls should have “high-powered” rifles.
7 posted on 10/30/2024 7:03:17 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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