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… “I heard a loud crash and men screaming, ‘Buffalo Police, police, police, search warrant, police, police,’ over and over again, yelling,” Maisha Drayton recalled. “I heard my son Xavier screaming, ‘Don’t shoot, don’t shoot,’ because he came out of his bedroom, and I heard them screaming, ‘Get on the ground, get on the ground.’ “

They put both Draytons in handcuffs while they searched for drugs. At the time, Maisha Drayton was the senior director of staff development at Evergreen Health Center, a nonprofit organization that helps people with chronic illnesses, and Xavier was 16. …

A female office asked Drayton, “You know why we’re here, don’t you?” Drayton testified at a deposition. “And she said, ‘Because there are drugs in your house.’ “

The officer said, “When we find these drugs, you’re going to jail and they’re going to take your kids,” Drayton testified.

But no drugs, guns or stacks of money were found. …

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    1 year ago

    Typical Buffalo PD, they probably finished off the night by concussing some old folks and beating the female officers.