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posted by janrinok on Sunday August 09 2015, @03:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the sauce-for-the-goose dept.

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:37PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday August 09 2015, @05:37PM (#220329) Journal

    But they weren't doing their job. Unless you think their job is vandalizing shops.

    Of course if they should get through with it, things could get interesting, when every criminal wants evidence to be dropped on the base that they didn't expect it to exist. ;-)

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Sunday August 09 2015, @06:11PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday August 09 2015, @06:11PM (#220343)

    If they are making any use whatsoever of their official authority (e.g. identifying themselves as police or flashing a badge around), yes, they are doing their jobs. They might well have been committing a crime while doing their job, but they were acting in their official capacity and have no expectation of privacy.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @09:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @09:40PM (#220417)
      https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242 [cornell.edu]

      Under Color of Law - yet another charge...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @11:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @11:13PM (#220466)

        Layman summary - if government officials use any kind of punishment other than what is specifically stated to be done per the relevant law (any deprivations of rights, privileges, or property) to anyone, citizen or not, they are to be fined or imprisoned for a year; if assault (threats) or battery (physical harm) occurs with it (eg, police beating people in their custody, using threats and force to steal phones/cameras), up to ten years; if murder, rape, kidnapping (eg, enforcing void laws), or attempts of those occur, life or death.

        I'm not sure I've ever seen a cop not guilty of breaking this law. Good find.

  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday August 09 2015, @08:54PM

    by tathra (3367) on Sunday August 09 2015, @08:54PM (#220390)

    But they weren't doing their job.

    then they're guilty of trespassing, breaking & entering, theft, vandalization, destruction of property, and assault. case closed.

    • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Monday August 10 2015, @02:18AM

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Monday August 10 2015, @02:18AM (#220512)

      And tampering/destruction of evidence. Their wanton destruction of the security system caught by a back up system pretty well shows they thought they were destroying the evidence of them destroying the evidence so the evidence wouldn't show them destroying the evidence.

      ow, my head hurts now...
      Time to pack a fat bowl.

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