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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: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Friday July 29 2016, @07:34PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday July 29 2016, @07:34PM (#381691) Journal

    "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.

    Yea. 11 whole years of "expertise" led you to believe doughnut glaze is a narcotic. I highly doubt anyone can be that mentally disabled.

    Oh this was in Florida? Well then, I stand corrected. Carry on.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 29 2016, @07:41PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 29 2016, @07:41PM (#381696) Journal

    You're missing what it really says.

    Real message here: that 11 years of training is WORTHLESS.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:18AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:18AM (#381825) Journal

      No' not worthless.. Think of all the money the state made thanks to all her prior arrests!
      Her expertise is *priceless*

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 29 2016, @08:03PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday July 29 2016, @08:03PM (#381699)

    If it was ancient glaze from old donuts, that had been on the floor of his car for a couple months, and hardened up into bits of "rock like substance," it sounds like it would look like certain drugs at first glance. Sounds reasonable to me.

    The more worrying part is that both of the test kits they used at the scene also claimed it was a drug.

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday July 29 2016, @08:13PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Friday July 29 2016, @08:13PM (#381703)

    Well, fat+sugar is addictive in a way that either alone are not.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @10:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @10:59AM (#381927)

    Well that explains all the stakeouts in the Florida Krispy Keme parking lots.