Correct, yes, politicians who have contributed to the militarization of US policing are also to blame, along with the massive military industrial complex and it

Correct, yes, politicians who have contributed to the militarization of US policing are also to blame, along with the massive military industrial complex and its lobbying arms in Washington. This country has been on a downward spiral since 9/11 to arm our police forces as if they're elite counter-terrorism units. But saying "they're just using the tools available" also evades accountability of the police. Police use legal no-knock warrants, yes, but they also routinely murder people during those no-knock warrants with no legal authority to do so and then press to cover up, obfuscate or avoid accountability of those actions: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/04/1078313707/amir-locke-killed-minneapolis-police-no-knock-warrant https://www.npr.org/2022/02/04/1078313707/amir-locke-killed-... This story specifically is about police using the blurry overlap of local, state and federal authority to specifically target businesses serving dispensaries. These officers targeted Empyreal with pre-textural stops that directly targeted these businesses that have the right to operate in CA. These officers are deliberately lying and falsifying information to target businesses they see as easy targets. In this instance, the police literally are the problem. from the og link: "During the December 9 stop, the deputies claimed a drug-sniffing dog alerted to the van, which Empyreal says is not true: "Video footage from the vehicle does not show the dog alert on the vehicle. Instead, it shows the dog is barely interested in the vehicle." The deputies obtained a search warrant prior to the November 16 seizure, but Empyreal says the application included several false or misleading statements. It says the deputy who applied for the warrant mistakenly claimed that Empyreal converts money from marijuana businesses into cryptocurrency and falsely asserted that some of the company's clients were not licensed by the state. The deputy also said Empyreal did not have a marijuana business license, which is not required to transport money from dispensaries to banks. Furthermore, a 2020 law says a company that provides such services to state-licensed marijuana businesses "does not commit a crime under any California law."