Brickbat: To Protect and Serve

David Hooks had reason
to be a little nervous. Someone had taken items from a pickup at
his Dublin, Georgia, home and stolen
an SUV from him the night before. So when his wife
reported seeing armed men in camouflage in their yard around 10
p.m., he grabbed a shotgun. Minutes later, the men kicked in their
back door and shot Hooks dead. The armed intruders turned out to be
Laurens County sheriff’s deputies. They’d found Hooks’ SUV earlier
in the day and arrested Rodney Garrett. Garrett admitted stealing
the SUV but claimed the meth they found on him was not his but had
been stolen from Hooks’ truck. Based solely on that, they got a
warrant to search Hooks’ house. They searched the home for 44 hours
and found no drugs.