Read the whole article because it’s hilarious.

  • @[email protected]
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    459 months ago

    I didnt know they could use the “I smell weed” excuse to raid buildings and stuff now.

    Thats just like, the magic words that make all rights disappear, innit?

    • Sabata
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      29 months ago

      If that fails, they can just say the MRI machine was the wrong color.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 months ago

      The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that smell isn’t enough of a connection to illegal activity. Weed is legalized there, as well. California apparently needs someone to take up a case.

  • @[email protected]
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    139 months ago

    Wait, but… It’s California? They don’t even do grow ops in la, they do it less than a day’s ride up the coast? You know, the biggest weed producers in the country? Hombolt?

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    189 months ago

    This officer likely faces more punishment for damage to his rifle than the damage caused by the raid.

  • @[email protected]
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    99 months ago

    Why did he leave the magazine though? What if he would have encountered some pet dogs later that day?

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    High energy usage and a smell of cannabis. If they got a warrant for this raid then there was also a judged who fucked up.

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    Hey, y’all need to chill out. The cops have qualified immunity because they are better trained and educated than the average civilian. Y’all think this was a medical imaging center!? You don’t know that! They could have been growing dangerous Marijuana that immigrated here illegally from Mexico to eat the dogs and cats!

    Thank God our boys in blue took the time to clear this potentially dangerous building of any possible threats! That MRI machine nearly got one of them until they disarmed and detained it!

    Just another dangerous day on the job!

    • Flying SquidOP
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      Do you know how racist you’re being right now?

      It’s the Haitians who eat the dogs and cats. The Mexicans take all of our jobs.

      Get it right. Jeez.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      They were absolutely trying to bust an MRI center, but were disappointed and confused when it didn’t mean Marijuana Resonance Imaging

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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    This officer should have gone to Trump University and and would have learned you can defeat magnets by just getting them wet. A cup of water, BOOM, no more magnet!

    Also, did the officer believe upon entering the outside room that they were somehow growing pot plants in the MRI tube behind an invisible curtain or something? Why would you need to walk into the room? Also, buying all that medical equipment would be a pretty big investment as just a front to grow a few pot plants. How does a warrant like that even get signed off on? Increased power compared to other non-medical buildings, and someone who thought they smelled pot? I’m sure it couldn’t have been someone in the waiting room that smoked up, or was around someone smoking before before going inside, right?

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    839 months ago

    The icing on the donut:

    The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

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        At all points. It was a gang that started wearing was given badges, not a ‘serve and protect’ force that (d)evolved into a gang.

        • @[email protected]
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          79 months ago

          Well I can only speak for where I grew up (not CA) in the 90s, and police were far less militarized back then.

          They may have always been racist pieces of shit, but things are definitely much worse than they were back then.

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            Oh, that’s def true, headlines about military equipment being bought by normal USA police departments keep popping up.

            The militarisation def doesn’t help with the problem.

            But I was referring more to the start, the colonial and early independent era, what existing groups were recruited/rebranded into the first police departments.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          True. It’s like if a street gang had really good PR and a super corrupt “union” to run cover for them.

  • Buelldozer
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    This is the dumbest damned thing I’ve read about all month. What the absolute fuck???