When a reporter would not betray his source, police came to his home with guns and a sledgehammer
by Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2019
4 minutes
The banging jolted Bryan Carmody awake. Outside his San Francisco home Friday morning, the longtime journalist saw a throng of police officers with a sledgehammer, trying to break down his front gate.
Carmody told the eight to 10 officers he would only let them in with a search warrant. Police confirmed a judge signed off on their barging into his home. Then the officers drew their guns and scoured his residence. When police left, they carted away his notebooks, computers, cameras, phones and even his fiancee's iPod from her college days.
"I knew what they wanted," Carmody told the Los Angeles Times. "They wanted the
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