Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause

Washington Post ^ | December 28, 2015 | Radley Balko

[Twotone]

Full title: Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home

I'd almost say 'unbelievable', but it's just too believable these days.

[equaviator]

Cops- You don’t have to love ‘em.

[UCANSEE2]

SWAT team raided the home of Robert and Addie Harte, their 7-year-old daughter and their 13-year-old son. The couple, both former CIA analysts, awoke to pounding at the door.

That's the opening script to about a dozen popular movies.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They do the same thing with "drug sniffing" dogs.

They bring a dog up to your car and if it barks or wags it tail they say it "alerted" to drugs and they can take your car apart.

[Vic S]

They shopped at a gardening store that sold hydroponics. They were there to get stuff for their daughter class project.

A cop outside was collecting license plates and got theirs. 7 months later they stormed the house looking for marijuana plants. Nothing was found.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Evidently they didn’t have any dogs to shoot.

[Crazieman]

Ah, Johnson county. That explains it.

[Twotone]

Art reflects life, I guess. But this is absolutely despicable. It should not be tolerated in a FREE country.

[raybbr]

. District Court Judge John W. Lungstrum Appointed by GHW Bush. Another waste of human skin.

[Wolfie]

Nothing new.

Operation Green Merchant

[The All Knowing All Seeing Oz]

Be very suspicious of the facts presented here. The author, Radley Balko, is a far-leftist radical paid pro-all drug legalization “writer” who has had materiel pulled from the TV networks due to lies.

He masquerades as a libertarian, but he really is a highly paid pro-drug mouthpiece.

There may be some truth to this story, but investigate it yourself. I wouldn’t be surprised if Balko’s paychecks were in Colombian Peso’s.

[max americana]

Heck, that’s the opening line to any spec script, I should know..

[boycott]

I believe this would be a little intimidating.

[goldstategop]

Cops can rely on a false positive test to bust you for drug use... even if you have never used illegal drugs.

Such mistakes are more common than people think.

Cops aren’t paid to think; they’re paid to make arrests, regardless of whether or not someone committed an actual crime.

That’s what happened in Kansas.

[ZULU]

The damn judge and sheriff should be hanged from opposite ends of the same rope. These people should write a book about this and make money from the experience.

[Paladin2]

"the War on Powder River"

LBJ's fault.

[Olog-hai]

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Cops aren’t paid to think; they’re paid to make arrests …

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False arrest is an open violation of the Fourth Amendment.

[AndyTheBear]

“While testing the specificity of the KN Reagent test kits with 42 non-marijuana substances, I observed that 70% of these tests rendered a false positive,” said Dr. Omar Bagasra, director of the Center for Biotechnology, who conducted the experiments.

Magic 8 balls might be cheaper than these test kits, and perhaps more accurate...

[Cvengr]

They’re just there to answer a Craig’slist ad offering to clean your firing pins for free.

[onehipdad]

Reminds me of Indiana in the early ‘70’s.