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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - National Football League legend Jim Brown, already at war with a Los Angeles judge he accuses of racism, Thursday took on the city's police department, accusing it of staging an ``armed invasion'' of his home.
Brown, inviting reporters to the pool side area of his spacious West Hollywood home, Brown accused police of sending 30 officers, 14 patrol cars and a helicopter to provoke and carry out he called an armed invasion during a private birthday celebration for a friend's daughter on Jan. 28.
A police spokesman said that the department would not comment on the allegations until an internal investigation was completed. Brown and his wife said they would file a formal complaint against the department early next week.
The alleged incident took place three weeks after Brown was sentenced to six months in jail for refusing to attend court-ordered domestic violence counseling after he was convicted of vandalizing his wife's car but found not guilty of terrorizing his wife, Monique.
Brown, 63, is free on bail while appealing the jail term. He has called for the judge to removed from the case, claiming she was ``the leader of a radical and extremist group of white upper class women who target men of color, including Jim Brown.''
With his wife and a dozen supporters at his side, Brown told reporters that party-goers noticed policemen hiding in the bushes with guns drawn around 9:30 p.m. and went to inquire as to their presence.
Bo Taylor, an acquaintance of Brown's who claims to have confronted the officers, said that the police would not confirm whether a complaint from neighbors had been received or if an entry warrant had been issued.
According to Brown, three unidentified young men then attempted to start a fight inside the house to ``give the police an excuse to enter.'' The young men were removed without incident, and the police left shortly thereafter, Brown said.
``My wife and I are in a battle with the government. The LAPD has initiated an agenda against yours truly, and they decided last Friday night to set this house up for some sort of violent confrontation,'' Brown said.
``I believe that if I had walked up that hill and done anything, I would be dead today.''
Brown's attorney has appealed his six-month vandalism sentence, but the former star running back said that if forced to serve time, he would do so ``with dignity and pride
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - National Football League legend Jim Brown, already at war with a Los Angeles judge he accuses of racism, Thursday took on the city's police department, accusing it of staging an ``armed invasion'' of his home.
Brown, inviting reporters to the pool side area of his spacious West Hollywood home, Brown accused police of sending 30 officers, 14 patrol cars and a helicopter to provoke and carry out he called an armed invasion during a private birthday celebration for a friend's daughter on Jan. 28.
A police spokesman said that the department would not comment on the allegations until an internal investigation was completed. Brown and his wife said they would file a formal complaint against the department early next week.
The alleged incident took place three weeks after Brown was sentenced to six months in jail for refusing to attend court-ordered domestic violence counseling after he was convicted of vandalizing his wife's car but found not guilty of terrorizing his wife, Monique.
Brown, 63, is free on bail while appealing the jail term. He has called for the judge to removed from the case, claiming she was ``the leader of a radical and extremist group of white upper class women who target men of color, including Jim Brown.''
With his wife and a dozen supporters at his side, Brown told reporters that party-goers noticed policemen hiding in the bushes with guns drawn around 9:30 p.m. and went to inquire as to their presence.
Bo Taylor, an acquaintance of Brown's who claims to have confronted the officers, said that the police would not confirm whether a complaint from neighbors had been received or if an entry warrant had been issued.
According to Brown, three unidentified young men then attempted to start a fight inside the house to ``give the police an excuse to enter.'' The young men were removed without incident, and the police left shortly thereafter, Brown said.
``My wife and I are in a battle with the government. The LAPD has initiated an agenda against yours truly, and they decided last Friday night to set this house up for some sort of violent confrontation,'' Brown said.
``I believe that if I had walked up that hill and done anything, I would be dead today.''
Brown's attorney has appealed his six-month vandalism sentence, but the former star running back said that if forced to serve time, he would do so ``with dignity and pride