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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @10:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @10:42AM (#220622)

    The police is generally not an expert on lawmaking so it might be not be reasonable to expect them to know what is just and what isn't. However, in cases where it indeed is, and obviously so, your line is known as the Nurenberg defense.

    The fallacy there is that one entity being responsible for the outcome doesn't mean that others aren't as well.