Another day, another warrantless Gestapo raid

Here’s what happened to a perfectly innocent woman who came home from work to prepare what she thought was going to be a romantic dinner:

After leaving her operating room scrub nurse duties at Sarasota’s Doctors Hospital on Wednesday, Louise Goldsberry went to her Hidden Lake Village apartment.

Her boyfriend came over, and after dinner — about 8 p.m. — Goldsberry went to her kitchen sink to wash some dishes.

That’s when her boyfriend, Craig Dorris — a manager for a security alarm company — heard her scream and saw her drop to the floor.

Goldsberry, 59, said she had looked up from the sink to see a man “wearing a hunting vest.”

He was aiming a gun at her face, with a red light pinpointing her.

“I screamed and screamed,” she said.

Basically, the cops broke in, yelled obscenities at her, and threatened to shoot her.

Turns out they were federal marshals (you know, the clowns who have lost thousands of encrypted radios), and they were looking for a man who wasn’t even thought to be in her apartment, just somewhere in the complex (which he wasn’t). Apparently thinking someone is in the building is enough reason for these taxpayer-funded maniacs to conduct warrantless and fruitless door-to-door searches.

They remained cuffed for close to half an hour as the apartment was searched for a wanted man who wasn’t there, never had been, and who was totally unknown to them.

They are lucky they weren’t killed.

Anyway, here’s what is called “the officer’s story”

Matt Wiggins was the man at the door.

He’s with the U.S. Marshal’s fugitive division.

I asked him what happened. He said they had a tip that a child-rape suspect was at the complex.

That suspect, Kyle Riley, was arrested several hours later in another part of Sarasota.

The tip was never about Goldsberry’s apartment, specifically, Wiggins acknowledged. It was about the complex.

But when the people in Goldsberry’s apartment didn’t open up, that told Wiggins he had probably found the right door. No one at other units had reacted that way, he said.

Oh, so now it’s “suspicious” not to open your door and just let the cops search willy-nilly?

I guess people keep trying to reassure themselves that the innocent have nothing to fear from the Gestapo.

I’m tired of seeing these things happen on a daily basis in America.

But where can I go?