I read about it on FR. I can’t recall who posted it.
These moronic jackboots need to face resistance.
They also need to face jurors who refuse to convict those that meet them with resistance.
Jurors hold the power.
Barbers are notorious tax cheats. They will often not enter cash transactions into their tills.
That’s likely what this is really about.
The last thing the federal givernment NEEDS is MORE money to waste..
Cheating is what the federal givernment DOES...
It’s exactly what they do..
They cheat when they raise the money and they cheat when they spend the money..
They outright STEAL the money from citizens..
Theft is what federal givernment does..
Guess they got a haircut...
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
Channel 9 has learned a new court ruling means deputies involved in raids at Orange County barber shops will stand trial.
A federal Court of Appeals ruled every officer involved in the SWAT-style raids in Pine Hills violated the barbers’ civil rights.
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In the end, there was no criminal activity and no unlicensed barbers at Strictly Skillz.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputies-involved-orange-county-barber-shop-raids-/nhPXf/
the article was from 09/2014. the article says it happened it in 2010
When you have para-military swat units and there is really no justification for them you then have to put them to use somehow. Otherwise some politician might rightfully cut the swat budget. Going after jaywalkers is likely the next use of these wannabe soldiers.
As I recall, they busted a barber shop that was secretly running as a private strip club serving liquor without a license in “Crime Hills”. Perhaps this is an earlier, less detailed report of the same place?
(If you’re not familiar with Pine Hills, it is “heavily Amish” and known by locals as “Crime Hills”.)
Apparently cops found nothing better to do than to roust hard-working law-abiding citizens running a legitimate business.
And they wonder why people hate them so much? Incidents like this make people distrust law enforcement on sight.
Especially when they don’t have real criminals to apprehend.
Instead of conducting a proper investigation, the sheriff's office allied with the state's business regulation agency and organized raids based on minor violations. In spite of the hype and inflated expectations, the raids found little of consequence. Eventually, the sheriff's office settled the ensuing civil rights suits in federal court.
If the investigators had watched the movie Barbershop they might have understood that such barbershops are the poor man's country club and that their young male customers tend to dress like gang bangers because that is the style these days.
Because:
1. The State wants its cut.
2. The cops like easy work without no fear of return fire.
One of the subjects covered in the book was the utilization of SWAT teams in code enforcement. I'm not sure if this particular event was covered in the book, but numerous examples were cited in the book. Its happening all over the US
Fascism on the march.
They should try that with abortion mills - notoriously unsanitary and law-skirting, (not to mention the torture-deaths of little baby boys and girls....)
This happened back in September of last year and could not find it posted on FR.
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Title search using— barber — gives the following:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3207085/posts
SWAT Teams Raid Barber Shops Over Permits ^
9-23-2014
For all those that tell us the police will do the right thing and be on our side when The Govt goes full tyrant I give you this article as Exhibit A. They will not. The police are never your friend and speaking to them is always a bad idea.