Alameda raid mistakenly targets TV reporter's home

[Blue_Tires]

Source: SF Chronicle

ALAMEDA --

Police and FBI agents arrested a drug suspect in Alameda on Wednesday, but not before mistakenly trying to raid a home across the street belonging to a network TV reporter and her political consultant husband.

Alameda and Martinez police, together with FBI agents, pounded on the door of CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens and her husband, Alex Clemens, at their home on Lina Avenue at about 7 a.m.

Alex Clemens, a political consultant and lobbyist in San Francisco, said he peered out the window and saw "four guns raised at my face." Several agents pulled him outside and put his hands behind his back, apparently preparing to handcuff him, he said.

He told them that his wife was upstairs nursing their 7-month-old daughter and mentioned that she was a correspondent for CBS News.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/15/BAD11L4P5U.DTL

[Dawson Leery]

1. Worthless bastards!

:argh:

[saras]

2. At least it wasn't the DEA. They have a bad habit of shooting people in the wrong house.

[KansDem]

3. Or cops in Utah

...for holding a golf club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFEHlkr0lHs

[Javaman]

4. This won't end well for the Stasi.

A reporter and a political consultant? All they would need to complete the circle was a son that was a lawyer.