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ABC's Pierre Thomas tagged along with federal marshals in Atlanta to see how they served arrest warrants on three fugitives. His anchor Charles Gibson introduced the report by telling us that the targets were violent. Yet the first arrest was of a suspected car thief who was also addicted to methamphetamines and crack cocaine. He was tasered by the marshals when they tackled him. The second bust, at close to midnight, brought "a sad surprise." The marshals busted down a door and brought out a sleeping child before they found their man. The third saw marshals drag a man from his house and throw him to the floor. He was an "innocent associate who grew up with the suspect." Their man was next door in the garage.
Thomas, ABC's justice correspondent, did not even extend to the trio the disclaimer that COPS grants on FOX-TV about the presumption of innocence. He called them "career criminals."
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