There was no advocacy there, what happened is what happened. And I think it was four.
Police in general are becoming the feared and/or despised adversary of ever increasing numbers of people - or as they describe themselves in Missouri, "the enemy".
Ortiz said he took a plea deal and served six months' probation and 25 hours of community service for selling the tiny plastic bags.
That's just one reason. For years I have been buying those tiny plastic bags 4000 at a time and using them for all kinds of things in legitimate business, never once thinking they were just for dope. I have used them personally for things like small parts, nuts & bolts, salt & pepper, medicines, garden seeds, coins & jewelry, and yes, tobacco. Because of a stupid law declaring a thing to be paraphernalia when it is clearly not, these guys in PA and too many other places have appointed themselves the power to go in and wreck a family's business and steal their property. Those particular cops are nothing more or less than thugs, and whatever comeuppance is to be their lot, it will be deserved..
One needn't wonder for a second why there are people who hate cops, and one can express recognition of that reality without necessarily being one of the growing number who do.