South Florida family sues FBI for early morning raid without warrant

[RagingInMiami]

This went down in a poor, black neighborhood where civil rights are never a priority.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13386035.htm


Ta'shika Randle was 13, developmentally disabled and fast asleep when the FBI arrived at her Fort Lauderdale home early one morning before school.

Moments later, a federal lawsuit says, she awoke to find a gun pointed at her head and strangers shouting orders.

A team of FBI agents and police officers went to the home at 1445 NW Eighth Ave. at dawn on April 14, 2004, to arrest Ta'shika's uncle, Fabian Corriette, on a federal drug charge.

But the agents didn't have a search warrant when they roused Ta'shika, her grandmother and another uncle who owns the home and is her legal guardian, the lawsuit says. And Corriette wasn't there.