Posted on 02/22/2019 7:00:20 AM PST by bgill
Fake but accurate obtains a conviction, bolsters a reputation. Just need evidence without a prior paper trail to drop into a search.
On the other hand, it is very common that dealers have the stash right there beside them, but not on their person. Or it’s inside the house, and they stand out front. Someone could be up their eyeballs in it, and they were on their way to sisters house, etc.
He might be telling the truth, or this could be another Trayvon, just out getting skittles so he could go home and study the rest of the night.
Everyone with a dope conviction in Houston will now claim they were set up. Most of them did exactly what they were arrested for.
“Everyone with a dope conviction in Houston will now claim they were set up. Most of them did exactly what they were arrested for.”
Oh well, that’s the price to pay when cops cut corners like this. Better 100 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man go to jail.
And even better if one guilty cop goes to jail along with every cop who covered for him.
So, all of them on the payroll?
According to the article, he was walking back from the store, but he had no money. What was he doing at the store with no money? Just window-shopping?
He used a credit card?
I rarely carry cash anymore. Credit cards let me keep track of my purchases and I get points and rewards fir their use.
I feel like “carrying no money” meant something more than “his wallet had no dollar bills in it”, but maybe I’m wrong.
I guess the article’s point was that he had no cash, which he would use for drugs, so he wasn’t going to the house to buy drugs.
Ah, I get it!
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