A more accurate comparison would be a man being visited by the police for possessing ham that may have been illegally imported, or was stolen, or that he was pr

A more accurate comparison would be a man being visited by the police for possessing ham that may have been illegally imported, or was stolen, or that he was prohibited by law from possessing for one reason or another. The police were there to investigate a potential violation of the law. The fact that some people find the behavior the law prohibits to be morally questionable doesn't seem relevant.