Early this morning, Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl was arrested in Plano, Texas for the misdemeanor charge of possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. He had a single joint in his car.

A single joint? Don’t the cops have something better to do than pick on the MTV ‘celebrity’? Isn’t there some redneck driving with an open beer in the next car over? Come on now…

I’ve never heard of him before this, honestly, but I must say… He’s got a pretty mugshot.

It looks like Michael Jackson isn’t only the King of Pop, but also the King of Pot and several other drugs that should have landed him on Celebrity Rehab. First reported by Pop on the Pop, police discovered two bags of marijuana, a bottle of Restoril, a medication used to treat insomnia, and empty bottles of the sedatives Ativan and Valium.

According to unsealed search warrants, several empty, unlabeled drug bottles were also found in the home shortly after his death. A search warrant served four days after Jackson’s death also states that “family members of the decedent notified Los Angeles County Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter that they had located a quantity of tar heroin in Jackson’s bedroom on the second floor of the residence. Winter notified LAPD detectives of the found evidence.”

It later turned out that the substance was not heroin, but he still had enough drugs in his house to have a pretty rockin’ party.

Kathryn Johnston, a 92 year old resident of Atlanta, Georgia, was shot to death in a drug raid gone bad in November 2006. Three Atlanta police officers are now facing felony charges of conspiracy to violate civil rights resulting in death, voluntary manslaughter, and making false statements.

Officer Arthur Tesler allegedly filled out an affidavit stating that a confidential informant purchased crack cocaine at Johnston’s home. When later questioned by authorities, the informant denied ever being at the residence, which prompted further investigation by local authorities and the FBI. Upon investigation, authorities learned that Tesler, along with Gregg Junnier and Jason Smith had been falsifying documents for quite some time.

The raid that led to the death of Johnston was based off of false paperwork stating that drugs were present in the home. When the police came to raid Johnston’s home, they used a no-knock warrant (obtained through falsified statements). Thinking she was being robbed, she shot her old-style pistol once, way over the officers’ heads and through her front door. The police returned fire, shooting 39 times and hitting her five. After she was dead, Officer Smith planted marijuana in the home to cover his tracks.

All three officers, along with several others from the Atlanta Police, including a sergeant, have been fired and arrested for these preposterous acts.

All three officers apologized for their role in her murder. During the court proceedings, ex-officer Jason Smith said, I pray daily for Ms. Johnston. I also pray other officers in Atlanta will have the moral fortitude I didn’t have. The officers are splitting the cost of Johnston’s funeral, which totaled $8,180, and are now facing jail time: Jason Smith was sentenced to 10 years, Greg Junnier and Arthur Tesler were sentenced to six and five years, respectively. After serving their prison terms, all three men are to serve three years of supervised release.

This poor woman is yet another victim of the War on Drugs, and I can’t help but feel that this is also a hate crime. Ten years for planting evidence, lying under oath, obtaining a warrant under false pretenses, and murdering a 92 year old black woman – does this really seem like justice to you? If rolls were reversed – Johnston an elderly white woman, the cops black – I strongly believe there would have been a much different outcome.