Posted on 07/30/2013 7:16:02 PM PDT by EveningStar
A Louisiana sheriff has apologized for the arrests of as many as a dozen or more men in recent years on charges that they violated an anti-sodomy statute that has been ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court.
On Saturday, The Advocate newspaper in Baton Rouge reported that a community policing unit of the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s office had been arresting men who discussed or agreed to meet privately to have consensual sex with undercover officers. Some of the arrests went as far back as 2011 and some were as recent as this month.
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Isn’t this solicitation?
Only if money changes hands.
Somebody is trying to minimize future negative publicity during an election cycle.
Speaking of apologies, has the New York Times ever apologized for covering up the mass murder committed by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union? Just asking?
Other media outlets have covered this too.
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