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2020-05-07 -Land of the Free

Weed Warriors Who Mistook Tea for Marijuana Will Pay Their Victims $150,000

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Posted by Fred 2020-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Not to worry. Reading the tea leaves, the Keystone Gestapo will be riding high again soon, a-searching for COVID test-criminals. Against the wall, kids!

Posted by Lex 2020-05-07 04:15|| 2020-05-07 04:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Wrong. Taxpayers will pay it.

Posted by Thorong Grundy1520 2020-05-07 07:21|| 2020-05-07 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 This is in no small part the result of qualified immunity, a ridiculous, judicially manufactured 'right'. These people are manifestly owed damages, but the actual perpetrators and their direct employers and supervisors not only pass the responsibility they also pass the bill.

Posted by Cesare 2020-05-07 13:17|| 2020-05-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 If we are to crush druggies and win the war on drugs, honest mistakes like this are the price. The alternative is letting the cartels win. Not an option.

Posted by Spike Grineng8188 2020-05-07 13:47|| 2020-05-07 13:47|| Front Page Top

#5 The family was targeted because Robert Harte bought supplies at a hydroponic gardening store in Kansas City. Harte was planning to grow vegetables with his son as a science project. But to Sgt. James Wingo of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was staking out the store, he looked like a cannabis kingpin.

So Missouri SHP has the time to do that, and a couple (or even several) hydroponic setups = Kingpin? It started bad and morons who mistake tea for for pot leaves are incompetent at best

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-07 13:54|| 2020-05-07 13:54|| Front Page Top

#6 honest mistakes like this are the price (to win the War on Drugs)

Honest mistakes, me arse! This was incompetence at every step in the process. The idea that the people involved will escape any sort of accountability thanks to qualified immunity should outrage anyone who cares about the rule of law.

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-07 14:27|| 2020-05-07 14:27|| Front Page Top

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