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Federal Appeals Court Rebukes Florida Cops for Using SWAT-Style Raids to Check Barbers' Licenses
Reason.com ^ | September 17, 2014 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 09/18/2014 6:11:42 AM PDT by Scoutmaster

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To: Scoutmaster

Apparently all the piglets are at risk here, and should be. All of them understood the dishonest game they were playing.

If you don’t have enough to even get a warrent, then you certainly don’t have enough to play commando. This was a fishing expadition. Another example of what cops think of our rights.


41 posted on 09/18/2014 7:34:31 AM PDT by LevinFan
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I believe that the majority of ‘professional licensing’ regulations are not designed to protect the consumer, but rather to benefit licensed professionals by creating a barrier to competition.

And to raise revenue.

42 posted on 09/18/2014 7:38:41 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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” They should get prison time.”

They all may well get it. Apparently all the officers involved are facing charges. They all understood how dishonest their actions were.


43 posted on 09/18/2014 7:39:30 AM PDT by LevinFan
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Oh sure, let a bunch of trigger happy steroid goons point weapons at every man, woman, and child who might be peeking out their window or opening their front door just because somewhere out there might be a threat to cops? What about the rest of society? Our troops have more restrictive roe


44 posted on 09/18/2014 7:40:55 AM PDT by fr_freak
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It was a backdoor drug raid. They wanted to search, but had nothing. The license was an excuse.


45 posted on 09/18/2014 7:41:31 AM PDT by LevinFan
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I suspect that stories like this, and the the Pennsylvania sniping, have finally made the point that civilians no longer think that cops are our protectors.

The Ministry of Truth is trying to sell the "he must be crazy" fiction in Pennsylvania, but the comments indicate that we vast unwashed ain't having any.

It's interesting how the Federal Media Trolls are having more and more trouble selling the Official Story.

(How does one get a job from the DNC like that? Imagine spending all day attacking others on media comment sites. I'm sure there was a time when trolling comments could steer public opinion. But the Left Side of the Bell Curve still clings to the tactic.)

46 posted on 09/18/2014 7:49:56 AM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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” To be fair, the officer sees the glint of a
lens in a window.

Is it a camera, granny’s eyeglasses, or a
rifle scope?

It is prudent for him to get a good look
through his own scope and rule out or
respond to the threat.”

No, it is prudent to not take actions that can lead to an accidental discharge of a gun. And flat out, we don’t enjoy having guns pointed at us any more than cops do. It is a degrading practice cops have gotten into, where they think nothing of threatening death over nothing.

And a glint of light is NOT reasonable cause to aim a gun. This isn’t Iraq. Quit trying to pretend it is, to get a thrill.


47 posted on 09/18/2014 7:58:38 AM PDT by LevinFan
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Vidler and Leslie are trying to get the lawsuit dismissed based on the qualified immunity enjoyed by officers

This is what needs to be addressed. Then they won't be so quick to pull on those Jack Boots.

48 posted on 09/18/2014 8:03:34 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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That’s the reason I said what I did. When I was LEO it was a pretty well known fact that many of them did sell drugs out of the barber shop in the “ethnic” neighborhoods as a way to make side money.


49 posted on 09/18/2014 8:54:12 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Hence a federal judge was right to rule that Vidler and Deputy Travis Leslie do not deserve qualified immunity.

This is huge.

50 posted on 09/18/2014 9:57:00 AM PDT by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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Cops who wannabe Navy SEALs, but without all the arduous selection and training.


51 posted on 09/18/2014 10:41:42 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Isn’t that photo from when they were looking for the remaining Tsarnyev (sp) brother in Boston?


52 posted on 09/18/2014 12:36:10 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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Yes it is. It’s one of the stock photos I use on the pings to the JBT threads, interesting how many people think the guy who runs the JBT ping list is a bootlicker, eh?


53 posted on 09/18/2014 10:37:20 PM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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