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This story doesn't add up. Why would 7 undercover officers be staking out a local supermarket to take down 20 year old girls buying beer?
by jonahx 13y ago
This story doesn't add up. Why would 7 undercover officers be staking out a local supermarket to take down 20 year old girls buying beer?
- Ygg2 13y agoBudget cuts? Police did weirder things for bonus pay. Like cause a man a heart attack, by goading him to a bet a large sum (over some federal minimum). Heart attack was caused by SWAT members assaulting his house. EDIT: Note it's not a heart attack they shot him through the heart. It's from this article http://www.cracked.com/article_19450_6-laws-youve-broken-without-even-realizing-it.html http://www.cracked.com/article_19450_6-laws-youve-broken-wit...
- robeasthope 13y agoGot a link for that story?
- yfkar 13y agoSounds like two separate stories mixed up. In the gambling case a SWAT member actually shot the man dead: http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal And here's a story of an elderly woman having a heart attack from a flashbang in a failed drug raid: http://gazette.com/grandmother-sues-over-flash-bang-grenade-raid/article/126577 http://gazette.com/grandmother-sues-over-flash-bang-grenade-...
- Ygg2 13y agohttp://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/17/justice-for-sal Sorry it wasn't a heart attack. They shot him through the heart (it was some heart related mishap). He broke the 1970 gambling act.
- samolang 13y agoThey work for the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. That is literally their job (as stupid as that might sound).
- jcromartie 13y agoBecause they are power-tripping jackbooted thugs, with a paramilitary tendency, and a belief that they have ultimate authority and that citizens must comply with everything they say. An official ABC statement on the incident even says as much ("rather than comply with the officers requests...").