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Show UTAH INDEPENDENT August 13, 1971 Page 11 GUN CONTROL BECOMES TERROR Continued From Page 10 scene of the raid indicated that Ballew did not fire his gun at the agents, but rather in a direction away from the raiding party. There was even an attempt to make it appear the Mrs. Ballew had refused to respond to initial demands that the door be opened. This is an extremely crucial point, because agents executing federal search warrants have no authority to break down a door unless they have first been denied admittance, which would technically have been the case had there been no answer from Mrs. Ballew or her husband. At first, it was claimed that, all that could be heard inside the Ballew apartment was scuffling after the order to open the door had been given. But it was later revealed, in the written statements of two of those who participated in the raid, that in fact they did hear Mrs. Ballew answer twice, in fact - but were simply unable to understand what she was say ty study of the incident, released on July thirteenth, exonerated And this in turn adds credence to Mrs. Ballews contention that the county policemen who parthere was so much ruckus that ticipated in the raid, with Montshe could not understand what gomery County executive James the agents were saying. Thus it P. Gleason asserting in a related appears that there was no legal statement: I have asked myself justification for the agents to if there is anything that couldve conclude they had been denied been done differently and I just admittance. For all they knew at have to answer that there was the time, those muffled and in- not. Incredible! On July twelfth, a grand jury audible words of Mrs. Ballew could have been something like, investigation of the incident beJust a minute while I get a gan in Montgomery County. No robe. Actually, of course, she one really expects much to come had simply attempted to find of the inquiry, although one inout who was at the door. teresting, and perhaps significant, development has already 0 1 her government-sponsore- d investigations of the incident come to light: namely, that the have been held, most of which federal agents involved refused have tended to exonerate those to testify before the grand jury. who participated in the raid. Why? Because the grand jury reOne July 13, 1971, the fused to grant them immunity Washington Star reported that a from possible future prosecution federal investigation on the raid in the case! (It should be liad exonerated both federal noted, in contrast, that the did agree to testiagents involved, a Treasury De- . county police partment spokesman said yester- fy.) It sort of makes one wonder day. And a Montgomery Coun just what the federal agents ing. ' C Kay Cummings candies might have to say if granted Telephone news reports emanating from Liberal media in Washington liave attempted to make it look like the local police were more at fault than were the federal agents who had responsibilliy for the raid. And an outfit immunity. The matter of how the county police became involved in this tragic incident also needs further investigation and clarification. It has been established that federal authorities invited the police into the case, but as of July twelfth, both County Executive Gleason and Police Chief Watkins were refusing to reveal exactly who authorized this participation on a federal warrant. As an angry;. Congressman observed: One wonders . . . what business the Fed- itself the Montgomery Coalition Against Racism has demanded that the Maryland Human Relations. Commission launch an official investigation of Police brutality in the incident. One spokesman for the group told the Commission that Ballew, even though he is white, was the victim of the calling eral agents had inviting county police into the apartment at all. The county police had no jurisdiction in this case; it was a Federal warrant, addressed to Federal officers, and alleging a Federal offense. Montgomery County police had no conceivable Inracist attitude. cluded in this widly anti-poliCoalition are such organizations' as Citizens Against Repression, the National Welfare Rights polices ce Organization, SANE, and the American Civil Liberties Union. And what of Kenyon Ballew? At first he was given only a forty percent chance to live. But, as of this writing, he is listed as being in good condition. 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