Berwyn Heights, MD Mayor Cheye Calvo, who was handcuffed by police after they shot and killed his two dogs in a baseless marijuana raid on his home, will criticize the overuse of SWAT-style drug raids this Thursday (9/11) at the Cato Institute in Wash, DC.

These kinds of stories - no knock raid, wrong house, gun fire exchanged, pets, innocent people, officers dead - seem to have become regular occurrences. This is not unavoidable.

Victim of botched paramilitary drug raid to speak out