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Police Claim Recording of Marijuana Dispensary Raid is Illegal

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

darkfeline writes:

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: 4, Funny) by mendax on Sunday August 09 2015, @11:57PM

    by mendax (2840) on Sunday August 09 2015, @11:57PM (#220484)

    These cops should be shitting in their pants about now. No judge in his right mind would suppress that video. There is no legal basis for doing so. So, the result will be the following:

    • All these officers are going to be fired;
    • All will have charges, both state and federal, pressed against them, for their abuse of power, destruction of property, and just abuse under color of authority;
    • All will be going to jail or prison depending upon their culpability;
    • They are going to lose their qualified immunity and be sued into oblivion for violation of civil rights of those in the shop, especially the person in the wheelchair;
    • The city is going to be shelling out a lot of money to pay for these bastards.

    I won't shed any tears for them. But their families are another matter. I have compassion for them.

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    It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @01:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @01:29AM (#220503)

    Wrong. They'll get off scot-free because they're cops. Cops literally get away with murder, you really think raiding a drug dealer will result in any kind of punishment?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @06:19AM (#220565)

    Actually they'll probably get a few weeks paid leave of absence until all this blows over then life will resume. But I'm cynical like that.