[vette6387]

You need to read the entire article. Their Nationwide Insurance agent “found” the “marijuana grow,” photographed it, and turned the “photographic evidence” in to the cops. He was there investigating an insurance claim.
This is why cops have a bad name. They are not here to serve the aims of justice, but rather than to try and make arrests at all costs.
A few million dollars from the city and Nationwide, plus having some people in both agencies loose their jobs will help to alleviate the homeowners pain.
There is way, way too much of this sort of lawlessness on the part of the cops. Just glad they didn’t decide to shoot these people too.

[treetopsandroofs]

I suppose they don’t have a dog. ;-)

[robroys woman]

Just glad they didn’t decide to shoot these people too.

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Luckily, they must not have a dog.

[sargon]

Any cop who can't identify a marijuana plant—notwithstanding the fact that it's ludicrous to threaten any American with imprisonment for possessing the wrong one of God's own plants—is incompetent, and to falsely arrest someone on clearly invalid evidence is absolutely worthy of an expensive lawsuit.

It shows the effectively unlimited power of the runaway State, and the absurdity of contraband law in any supposedly free society. Anyone who calls himself a "small government" conservative and believes in such arbitrary law is a hypocrite who puts nanny state Tyranny ahead of Liberty...

[Rusty0604]

The cops figure it’s safe and good on their record as fighting the war on drugs. They keep their pensions. The insurance adjuster gets a raise for finding a bogus reason not to pay the claim.