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Police who raided a marijuana store, destroying security cameras and the DVR, harassing the store's customers, consuming edible marijuana products, and playing darts, were caught on camera. The cops claim that said recording is illegal because the cops had an expectation of privacy after destroying all of the security cameras.
I wish I could make up this stuff.
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Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @04:19PM
While true, the very fact that the police officers involved are wiling to let him go thru with it shows their level of depravity knows no boundaries. At some point you just need to admit it and take your punishment. "Hey, it was a bad idea, we are sorry"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @04:36PM
Yes, if you're caught with your hand in the cookie jar. But these guy's jobs are on the line, and I presume they will be subject to criminal and/or civil charges, so they are going to be a lot more aggressive in trying to get this evidence tossed out.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Sunday August 09 2015, @04:55PM
If they're going to this level of "aggression" to "protect" their mere jobs, then they have already demonstrated that they utterly lack even an hint of the moral character required for the job in the first place.
Then again, their inexcusable behavior has already demonstrated that.
What I'd like to know is what sorts of criminal negligence prosecution will be brought against their supervisors as well as whoever hired them in the first place. I mean, you don't really expect me to think that this is the first time this lot have done something like this, or that not a one of them showed any previous signs of violent criminal tendencies?
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Monday August 10 2015, @02:43AM
"I mean, you don't really expect me to think that this is the first time this lot have done something like this, or that not a one of them showed any previous signs of violent criminal tendencies?"
You bring up an interesting point. (pure, unadulterated, unfounded, unsubstantiated speculation to follow) It makes me wonder if this has occurred in other dispensaries. Only they got all the cameras? I was curious why there was a second totally separate security system running. Perhaps victimized dispensary owners have warned other owners to install secondary systems for this very reason?
"If they're going to this level of "aggression" to "protect" their mere jobs, then they have already demonstrated that they utterly lack even an hint of the moral character required for the job in the first place."
Well, they exceeded that level of aggression DOING their jobs, and the simple destruction of the security system is evidence of their high moral character, some of the most appalling footage I have ever seen.
Imagine the slippery slope it would create if the evidence is suppressed. Unofficial criminals could then use this defense if they missed a camera during a robbery.
As far as the people who hired them, I don't see fault there as long as they qualified without prior incidences. You simply can't know another persons character from a resume, interview. Years ago my son, a manager at a local burger joint here in town, hired a guy who ended up murdering a co-worker in the trash compactor. The guy was good on paper, interviewed well, worked hard, worked well. Right up until the night he snapped. So, no, I can't hold the people who hired them responsible. You simply can't know the mind of another.
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