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Comment by hvidgaard

That is absolutely terrifying to read!

  The striking thing about the footage is, again, the utter mundanity of the raid.
  A family was just violently raided over an unmeasurable amount of pot. A man was
  arrested over that pot. The money he needed for his business was taken from him.
  Yet there’s no shame or embarrassment from the officers. There’s no panic that
  the whole thing was captured on video. That’s when it hits you.  They don’t think
  they’ve made a mistake. This is what they do. The lead officers later tells the
  camera, matter-of-factly, that the raid turned up “a personal use amount of
  marijuana.” Perhaps realizing that he was also on camera back at the police
  station promising a much larger stash of drugs, he adds, “It happens. Drug
  warrants are, you know, 50-50.”
If they raid a home on the pretense that he has a large stash and is selling, fine. But when it turns out to not be true, they better pay for damage - no matter what else they find.
parent hvidgaard 10 years ago

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