Police state. “Feel” safe yet?
I bet to this day the cops swear it was a dry run test with candy before the ACTUAL run with the dope, or something that crazy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-accused-misleading-judge-for-86m-safety-deposit-box-raid-2022-9?fbclid=IwAR0s9Uj3VHoYJE7D5ZD97Z_IwSRWe_I8frx8AI1UXrwZDVEz5Q8yYiUMHRw
He’s looking for a sweet payout.
It is case like this that should prompt the Supreme Court to Overturn their Legal Fiction they created out of thin air called “qualified immunity”
Incredible... If they had any doubt at all this should have never happened. Self proclaimed Geniuses again.
Leni
“The officers filed a notice of appeal to challenge the District Court’s denial of qualified immunity under federal and New Jersey law. But before the officers appealed, the driver had amended his complaint,” the court wrote. “Due to that prior amendment, the District Court’s order was not final when the officers appealed.”
This is even more incredible... They appealed it? lol
So in addition to guns and cash being effectively illegal the cops are now cracking down on candy.
Now they can do civil asset forfeiture on $100,000 bars because they’re cash AND candy!!!!
Can you imagine having several children and dividing up a box of candies into plastic bags to keep them amused on a drive to the grocery store, then the baggies end up left in the back seat of your car upon your return? Parents do this type of thing all the time. And, everyone who has children knows what the back seat looks like after you have taken the children anywhere at all. When you return from the store, you are busy getting the children and groceries out of the vehicle, including the youngest who fell asleep on the way home, and tell yourself you will get the left-over candy bags later.
Then, the following day you get stopped for speeding while on the way to work and the officer sees those baggies and arrests you for drug possession. Labs are way backed up in processing drug tests so you remain in jail for months and lose your job and your friends, and maybe the custody of your children, all because of some bags of candy. There should be recompense for such failures by law enforcement and the legal system.
I remember years ago a story of a guy (a Florida man, of course) who was arrested for meth due to tiny flakes on the floorboard of his car. It was actually pieces of Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut frosting, but he was arrested and spent time in jail until the tests results were returned.
(Just googled the story and found it here. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669/florida-man-awarded-37-500-after-cops-mistake-glazed-doughnut-crumbs-for-meth )
Why pay for tests? Just ask the officers who steal “drugs” out of the PD’s forfeited contraband stash whether they got buzzed or not.
A college friend of mine dated a Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney who used the evidence locker for his weed supply.