I avoid the Denver-Boulder metroplex like the plague because crap like this goes on up there all the time. On the other hand, there is a bit of schadenfreude at work here because the idiots who’s right were trampled on are the same lefties that vote the politicians in who come up with this crap.
Avoid cities whenever possible.
Police thuggery.
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt 1781
I’m sure they’d do the same thing for you if someone took your wallet.
Or, maybe not.
It would have been odd had they continued the search after they apprehended the suspect.
On a different note, figures I have to come to Free Republic to find out what's going on in my own city.
In such a situation, focus on a single question: “am I free to go?” Keep asking until you get “yes” or “no”.
Yes: leave.
No: cooperate, and plan what you’ll do with the big pile of money when you win the suit for wrongful imprisonment.
No description or even sex of the purported “robber,” yet the cops consider this a reasonable tactic - and apparently all the innocents involved agreed to the extent that not a one denied permission to search.
And as proof they got the right person, the cops only crow over “two found weapons.”
What the hell has happened to our country???
I don’t know if there were any follow up threads on this incident, but I just came across this. . .
January 24, 2013
Citizens caught in chaos of unusual bank robbery ‘dragnet’ take police to court
A former music school teacher is facing 7 to 14 years in prison for holding up an Aurora bank last summer. Christian Paetsch pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday.
But the innocent people caught in the search immediately following the bank robbery are just now beginning to search for justice.
It was a scene in Aurora that looked like something straight out of the movies, but this real life drama is about to play out in the courts.
University of Denver law professor, Justin Merceau said, “This is the sort of thing that, if litigated correctly, it could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court because it is an open question.”
On June 2, 2012, Aurora police shut down the intersection at E. Iliff Ave. and S. Buckley Rd. while searching for an armed robber who had just held up a Wells Fargo Bank.