Some of the Atlanta police officers involved in last November’s fatal shootout with an elderly woman had raised concerns about such raids two months earlier. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that when officers raided 80-year-old Frances Thompson’s home in September, she confronted them with a toy gun because she thought she was being robbed. Police later determined that the people coming and going from Thompson’s apartment were not buying drugs … they were church members visiting because Thompson’s son had just died. Soonthereafter several narcotics officers scheduled a meeting with their boss to voice their concerns. Two months later, plainclothes officers raided 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston’s home, killing her when she opened fire on them.
