Thaaaaat's Naaasssttyyy
Posted on 09/21/2007 11:30:40 AM PDT by jmc813
Motorists in Colorado are expressing outrage over a weekend stunt in Gilpin County, about an hour's drive west of Denver, where highway checkpoints were set up so a private organization could ask for samples of blood and saliva.
"I don't think they're authorized to do what they're doing, and I view it as a gross violation of law-enforcement protocol," Roberto Sequeira, 51, told reporters for the Denver Post.
He said he and his wife were "detained" for about 15 minutes even after they protested they wanted to get home because of a sleepy child in their car.
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Sheriff's officials were apologizing after they helped set up and run five separate checkpoints over the weekend.
They said workers for the Institute for Research and Evaluation were overly persistent in their demands of innocent travelers.
"It was like a telemarketer that you couldn't hang up on," Undersheriff John Bayne told the newspaper.
Sgt. Bob Enney said the deputies' assistance to the organization involved stopping motorists at the sites along Colorado Highway 119 for "surveys" on any drug or alcohol use. Surveyors also requested that motorists submit to breath, blood and saliva tests.
Enney said several hundred motorists were tested, and some later complained.
Sequeira said he repeatedly asked if the questioners were law enforcement officials and said he was not interested in participating in the study, but still was not given clearance to leave.
He told the newspaper that he and his family were approached by two researchers, and even after his repeated refusals, officials offered his wife, who was driving, $100 to get the couple to take part in a breath test.
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US tax dollars are being used by these fascists These people need to be cut off at the wallet !
Law enforcement can’t break the law, silly, they are the law!
Specially Colorado Law Enforcement! Happened upon a few of em up in CO. They are always slooooow in giving the Go Ahead. Always looked like it needed a look see by SCOTUS.
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They do that here too. They startled the hell out of the one who must be obeyed at a stop light last year walking up to her car wearing a tee-shirt, hip waders, carrying a boot he wanted her to put cash into. Needless to say, by the time she composed herself enough to remember she had a wallet, the light changed and the traffic started moving.
Not surprising, in Gilpin. I endured the place for 9 months in 2001. It’s a tiny county, and most of its residents believe Vladimir Lenin was a right wingnut
Gilpin County is for all those Boulder folk who swear CU sold out and went mainstream.
Heavy-handed tactics like these are no surprise, nosiree.
AH! Well, then the people involved should go to the police station and file a criminal report. I had to do that once against a guy that assaulted me while claiming to be a police man. I took it to court, won and he lost his job.
They’d we walking awkwardly afterward......with those clipboards shoved up their a**es.
Doesn't everybody?
Hell, why stop there? Why not require everyone to take a test before collecting a tax refund. Anything's fair when it comes to drugs. Just be sure to exempt Congress, judges and all law enforcement officers (except Border Patrol, or course).
Thaaaaat's Naaasssttyyy
That's my inclination, too, but it would probably get you guns in your face, a tazing and a personal tour of the county lockup. These were real deputies and you'd better respect their authoritay, or else.
They don’t “descend” on the highway and beg for money. They have the empty boot fund raiser. Check it out.
Sue the state.
Sue the state.
Whoever sent these deputies out to man these ‘survey’ checkpoints should be severely reprimanded.
“Doesn’t everybody?”
Dunno, I have no pressing plans to check either.
Huh??????
You wanna try for 4? Hahahahaha!
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