this is the problem with the cops and all their afiliated alphabet soup groups.....they go after the stupidiest little things just to show what big men they are and this is what happens...
whatever happened to DISCRETION?...what ever happened to the law being instructive?
we had a local guy with low intelligence taken down after the wuzzy cops thought he was holding a threatening object....an empty 2L bottle of cola...he died from his treatment but thankfully after years of obstruction by the cops, the dead man had his day in court and at least one cop has in ass in prison...
They’d call in SWAT and snipers because of an illegal lemonade stand, I wouldn’t want to be those kids.
That is probably what gets me most about the case. The cops didn’t need to be in a hurry to arrest the guy. He was a low level and nonviolent criminal who was not a danger to anybody. They could have taken their sweet time building a case, if there was a case to be built, and they could have arrested him at their leisure.
“what ever happened to the law being instructive?”
Lysander Spooner said that law is force. Think about that one for a sec.
This wasn't a minor crime like a murder, rape, kidnapping, bombing or carjacking.
This was failure to pay taxes.