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Dallas Police Steal* $100,000 from Woman at Love Field
D Magazine ^ | 12/8/2021 | Peter Simek

Posted on 12/08/2021 2:31:37 PM PST by simpson96

Two local TV news outlets, WFAA and CBS11, picked up a story this week that was first reported on the Dallas Police Department’s Facebook page. On the surface, it reads like a feel-good story: On December 2, an adorable K9 named Ballentine identified a piece of carry-on luggage at Dallas Love Field Airport that contained $100,000 in cash. Police seized the money and posted a photo of the dog with stacks of cash laid out on a table. Good boy. Case closed. But not so fast.

According to the reports, the money belonged to a 25-year-old woman from Chicago, who was neither arrested nor charged with a crime after her luggage was seized by police. So why did the police take the money? Well, according to Texas law, police don’t need a reason to take your property so long as they believe it either has been part of a crime or they believe it will be involved in a crime. That grants law enforcement sweeping powers to basically seize any property they believe is suspicious, even if they don’t have much evidence. The fact that the K9 identified the bag is, in and of itself, not evidence; 90 percent of cash in circulation has been shown to have trace amounts of cocaine.(snip)

Civil forfeiture laws allow law enforcement to seize property without due process.

(Excerpt) Read more at dmagazine.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: civilassetforfeiture; dallas; grandtheft; lovefield; police; robbery; texas
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1 posted on 12/08/2021 2:31:37 PM PST by simpson96
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“I see you have money. Give it to me.”
— your local police


2 posted on 12/08/2021 2:34:27 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Alec Baldwin has killed more people than the Jan 6 protesters. And he will serve less jail time.)
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Civil Asset Forfeiture should be done away with. One of many things that violate people’s rights by pretending it’s being done to their property (like progressive taxation) that should all go away, really.


3 posted on 12/08/2021 2:35:15 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: simpson96

Drug runner.


4 posted on 12/08/2021 2:37:32 PM PST by setter
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To: simpson96

Someone needs to declare those laws unconstitutional and strike them down. HOWEVER, a 25 year old, female, going to Chicago (bang, bang), flying out of Love Field with 100,000 smackaroonies? That’s gangster money. Is she with BLM?


5 posted on 12/08/2021 2:37:55 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: simpson96

If she walks away without fighting for it, then it must be dirty money. I’d fight in court for a lot less than $100k.


6 posted on 12/08/2021 2:38:19 PM PST by PAR35
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To: simpson96

Remind me never to carry $100,000 in cash through any airport in the US (and probably most anywhere else).


7 posted on 12/08/2021 2:38:37 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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To: PAR35

good luck in that fight if they have all your money.

that is the problem with these laws.


8 posted on 12/08/2021 2:39:35 PM PST by cableguymn (It will continue until we stop it.)
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To: fightin kentuckian
Is she with BLM

The cop appears to be a 'Dog of Color' so one would think not. Now, if it was a White Dog....

9 posted on 12/08/2021 2:40:00 PM PST by PAR35
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good luck in that fight if they have all your money.

If you can't find a lawyer willing to take a shot at it on contingency, with $100k cash in sight, it's a mighty weak case.

10 posted on 12/08/2021 2:42:28 PM PST by PAR35
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To: simpson96

Men lose a lot more than that every day in family courts. This government stinks and should be brought back to within the confines of the constitution.


11 posted on 12/08/2021 2:43:08 PM PST by DilJective (I look forward to seeing Wyatt’s Torch…)
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To: simpson96

we need to face up to the simple fact that there ARE some crooked cops out there

I have seen police steal citizens’ property

it does happen (with or without these TX laws)

it does happen

we need to get rid of the rotten apples in the Police Dept (and other agencies).....so that the good honest workers there can protect us like they want to


12 posted on 12/08/2021 2:43:11 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Income-tax payroll deduction, Dept of Education, busing, Roe vs Wade, RICO, and migrant-vermin birth citizenship are all strong links in the chains of tyranny that, now, rest firmly around our shoulders...

The sheeple get exactly what they have learned through their own ignorance or laziness...

13 posted on 12/08/2021 2:48:25 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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Suspecting a person of being a criminal is different than proving it. I just don’t understand how the police taking 100k in cash from a person without proving anything is not a violation of the 4th Amendment.


14 posted on 12/08/2021 2:48:41 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: setter

“Drug runner.”

Prove it.

Frankly, there was a time that I stupidly trusted that “the system” would find innocent people innocent and guilty people guilty. That was some time ago, and being older and wiser, I think otherwise now.


15 posted on 12/08/2021 2:49:24 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: SuperLuminal

Meant to include the “Patriot Act” as well...


16 posted on 12/08/2021 2:49:31 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: simpson96

Civil Forfeiture is a legal sham. Always has been.
Time to scrap it, completely.


17 posted on 12/08/2021 2:50:35 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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no name, and no picture, ANYWHERE!!! hummm...


18 posted on 12/08/2021 2:52:43 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: setter
Drug runner.

Prove it. In court.

19 posted on 12/08/2021 2:54:36 PM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: setter

I carried that much in my truck to go buy a new boat... I’m far from being a drug runner.


20 posted on 12/08/2021 2:55:52 PM PST by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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