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posted by martyb on Friday July 29 2016, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the sometimes-stereotypes-are-inaccurate dept.

AlterNet reports:

A 64-year-old man in Orlando was handcuffed, arrested, strip searched, and spent hours in jail after officers mistook the glaze from his doughnut for crystal meth.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that, after pulling Daniel Rushing over for failure to stop and speeding, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins noticed "a rock like substance" on the floorboard of the car. "I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic", she wrote in her report.

The officers asked if they could search Rushing's vehicle and he agreed. [...] [Rushing said] "They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth'."

[...] The officers conducted two roadside drug tests on the particles and both came back positive for an illegal substance. A state crime lab made further tests weeks later and cleared him. Rushing says he was locked up for about 10 hours before his release on $2,500 bond.

A cop who can't identify doughnut residue? What is the world coming to?

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by PocketSizeSUn on Friday July 29 2016, @07:30PM

    by PocketSizeSUn (5340) on Friday July 29 2016, @07:30PM (#381685)

    If the road side test kit was accurate more cops would be doping the samples that they are send to the crime lab, which is worse.
    Lesser of two evils. Let the cops have their fun and hope the courts will clean up the mess.
    Fits the agenda too. People with money know enough to *never* allow a public defender to defend them ... so we keep locking up poor people and dumb people and make the ignorant middle class foot the bill.

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