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Washington subway police to begin random bag checks
Reuters ^ | December 16, 2010 | Jeremy Pelofsky

Posted on 12/16/2010 1:40:00 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction

Officers will start random bag inspections on the sprawling Washington subway system, the Washington Metro Transit Police said on Thursday, a week after a man was arrested for making bomb threats to the rail system. Metrorail police officers plan to randomly select bags before passengers enter subway stations and they will swab them or have an explosives-sniffing dog check the bags, according to the Metro police.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 4thamendment; constitution; dc; metro; randombagchecks; subway; washingtonsubway
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To: JoeFromSidney
Washington, DC is no longer part of the United States.

Unfortunately, the truth is that the united States have been forced to be a part of Washington, D.C.

41 posted on 12/16/2010 8:14:13 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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