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DEADLY DECEPTION: Two Atlanta cops plead guilty in woman's death, blame pressure from police brass | ajc.com

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What started with a few bags of marijuana being planted near a suspected street dealer quickly spiraled out of control. Narcotics officers lied to a judge, illegally broke into 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston's house, fired 39 shots at her —- and then one handcuffed her as she lay bleeding before he planted drugs in her basement.

The events of Nov. 21, outlined in court documents, were almost an "inevitable" outcome of a troubled police unit, a federal prosecutor said Thursday as two former Atlanta narcotics officers pleaded guilty and promised to cooperate in a wider probe of the department.

Thank God they caught 'em!

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