He is a State Law Officer who needs to get his foot out of his mouth. He has NO AUTHORITY save State law and if he tries to enforce a State Law that is no longer State Law then he needs to be put away. I don’t care where he stands on the issue, he is to enforce the law of the State.
So don’t LAPD officers enforce state laws, or county ordinances? Don’t state police enforce Federal laws? If a state Trooper sees someone violating a federal terrorism law, does he have to let that person go. No, and if you guys want to smoke big giant marijuana cigarettes, you’ll either have to change the federal law or convince a federal judge that the law isn’t constitutional. Stop f@#$ing around with medical pot and state laws, those are lame excuses.
Actually, no. A sheriff has a special place in law as the locally ELECTED LEO. There are instances in which county sheriffs have thrown out Federal bureaucrats and the cases have stood. You'd best be damned thankful for that too.
What's funny about this situation is that Baca is citing one Federal law on drugs, while he systematically ignores another on illegal immigration.