GRAND RAPIDS — Police found only “tablespoons” of marijuana in Grand Valley State University student Derek Copp’s off-campus apartment the night he was shot by police during a drug raid, his lawyer said this afternoon.“To my knowledge, the raid resulted in the seizure of a few tablespoonfuls of marijuana, and nothing more,” attorney Fred Dilley said in a statement.
He said his concern is the manner of the search carried about by the West Michigan Enforcement Team, or WEMET, on Wednesday night. Copp was shot in the chest, and is recovering after suffered injuries to his ribs, lung and liver.
Dilley is also concerned about “the apparent lack of justification whatsoever for the use of force much less deadly force in executing a search warrant. The campus and Allendale communities are asking why? Why burst into a college student’s apartment with a gun drawn for a few tablespoonfuls of pot.”
Why? Because it is standard operating procedure, that’s why! But usually the suspects aren’t shot. Usually their lives are ruined, their kids traumatized, their pets killed, and their property destroyed, and you never hear another word about it.
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And think about this, if he hadn’t been shot and had been busted for teaspoons worth of weed, his parents would probably have told him “Well you shouldn’t have been smoking pot!” It’s a shame that he had to be shot for the public to get angry.
This could have been you. This could have been me. This BS has got to stop. Now!