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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Monday August 10 2015, @02:52PM
Their job is to enforce the laws, not write them or repeal them, not pick and choose which ones they think should be enforced at any given moment.
Not true. In the U.S., each branch of government (legislative, judicial, executive) has unique abilities that act as balances against the abuse of powers in the other two. The police (which are part of the executive branch) absolutely have the right to pick and choose which laws to enforce; as a city, state, and nation the law enforcement community has the authority to ignore unconstitutional/unjust laws such that they are never brought to trial.
Lawmakers hate it, as they like to think that their "I will make it legal" powers are absolute; unfortunately for them, the founding fathers anticipated the results of an out-of-control legislature and built a solution into the system when our nation was founded.
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