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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) by tibman on Friday July 29 2016, @07:40PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 29 2016, @07:40PM (#381695)

    Don't forget that alcohol was once illegal here. For some drugs it may be racism, surprisingly. Think of it like.. lots of people doing drugs but the police only incarcerate the people they don't like. What's that? My foil hat is on too tight? Ah, yes.. you're probably right :D

    Still waiting for pot to be made legal here. Seems like it would be fun to try, judging from peoples comments. I pretty much break zero laws (try to anyways!) so unless they legalize it i will continue to be oblivious to it. But i like your idea of usage. Do whatever you want as long as it doesn't infringe other people's rights.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @08:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @08:39PM (#381715)