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Florida cops storm barber shop to inspect licenses and sanitation
PoliceStateUSA.com ^ | 17SEP2014 | Staff Writer

Posted on 02/15/2015 10:03:28 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine

ORLANDO, FL — Deputies and state regulators aggressively raided Orlando-area barbershops, roughing up innocent staff and handcuffing them on the floor in an effort to check if the barbers had acquired government permission to legally cut hair.

A series of these raids has recently come to light, one of which is making its way through the litigation process in the federal court system. This was the raid of the Strictly Skills barbershop in Pine Hills, Florida, in which government agents warrantlessly stormed in the establishment with as many as 25 customers and 6 staff members present.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: barber; donutwatch; florida; shop
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This happened back in September of last year and could not find it posted on FR.
1 posted on 02/15/2015 10:03:28 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine
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To: Jack Hydrazine

I read about it on FR. I can’t recall who posted it.


2 posted on 02/15/2015 10:05:54 PM PST by sport
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To: sport

I think Floriduh is also where you have to have a license to be a florist and the “Florist’s Assn.” make sure that no one else gets a license. Not a place I’d like to call home.


3 posted on 02/15/2015 10:12:10 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Jack Hydrazine

These moronic jackboots need to face resistance.

They also need to face jurors who refuse to convict those that meet them with resistance.

Jurors hold the power.


4 posted on 02/15/2015 10:15:06 PM PST by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Barbers are notorious tax cheats. They will often not enter cash transactions into their tills.

That’s likely what this is really about.


5 posted on 02/15/2015 10:15:53 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

Given the sad state of our finances, and the unconstitutional guilty-until-proven-innocent tactics of the IRS, I salute any and all tax cheats. More power to them and may they never come to grief.

Give us a reasonable flat tax, flat from dollar zero to billions per year income and I will turn in tax cheats myself!


6 posted on 02/15/2015 10:22:25 PM PST by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Jonty30

In which case wouldn’t it be a different story here, a story of a sting (e.g. an investigator comes in as a customer and watches how his payment is handled). Not a story of harassment.


7 posted on 02/15/2015 10:23:04 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jonty30

“Barbers are notorious tax cheats. They will often not enter cash transactions into their tills.”

This is the only thing keeping many businesses open.


8 posted on 02/15/2015 10:27:07 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The last thing the federal givernment NEEDS is MORE money to waste..

Cheating is what the federal givernment DOES...
It’s exactly what they do..

They cheat when they raise the money and they cheat when they spend the money..
They outright STEAL the money from citizens..

Theft is what federal givernment does..


9 posted on 02/15/2015 10:29:20 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Guess they got a haircut...


10 posted on 02/15/2015 10:29:54 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —

Channel 9 has learned a new court ruling means deputies involved in raids at Orange County barber shops will stand trial.

A federal Court of Appeals ruled every officer involved in the SWAT-style raids in Pine Hills violated the barbers’ civil rights.

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In the end, there was no criminal activity and no unlicensed barbers at Strictly Skillz.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/deputies-involved-orange-county-barber-shop-raids-/nhPXf/


11 posted on 02/15/2015 10:32:52 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: Vendome

The federal reserve iS theft


12 posted on 02/15/2015 10:33:15 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

the article was from 09/2014. the article says it happened it in 2010


13 posted on 02/15/2015 10:33:36 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Eddie Mush)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Considering the heavy-handedness of the state and feds on even the relative minutia of matters, can you really expect anything different here?

The government has replaced the mob.


14 posted on 02/15/2015 10:33:38 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

When you have para-military swat units and there is really no justification for them you then have to put them to use somehow. Otherwise some politician might rightfully cut the swat budget. Going after jaywalkers is likely the next use of these wannabe soldiers.


15 posted on 02/15/2015 10:59:19 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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my new Governor wants to end state licensing of barbers and nail salons and stuff


16 posted on 02/15/2015 11:00:01 PM PST by GeronL
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To: hosepipe

And dix...


17 posted on 02/15/2015 11:02:37 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

As I recall, they busted a barber shop that was secretly running as a private strip club serving liquor without a license in “Crime Hills”. Perhaps this is an earlier, less detailed report of the same place?

(If you’re not familiar with Pine Hills, it is “heavily Amish” and known by locals as “Crime Hills”.)


18 posted on 02/15/2015 11:04:24 PM PST by Southern Magnolia
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Barbers are notorious tax cheats. They will often not enter cash transactions into their tills.

They're not giving enough to government?

Maybe government should regulate barber shops more. Maybe install surveillance cameras over each barber chair? Or monitor their bank accounts and sit them down for yearly IRS interview/interrogations.

19 posted on 02/15/2015 11:23:30 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jonty30
> The government has replaced the mob. --

The mob is still kicking themselves in the a$$ for not thinking of red light and speeding cams first. They coulda been billionaires the first year!

20 posted on 02/15/2015 11:28:49 PM PST by jsanders2001
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