IndyMonkey
Shooter
- Jan 15, 2010
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After I graduate from law school, I imagine I'll be spending quite a bit of time there.
well that most certainly paints a better pic for me.
After I graduate from law school, I imagine I'll be spending quite a bit of time there.
SWAT teams don't issue the warrants, they serve them. Warrants are issued by judges after hearing evidence presented by police as to why they want the warrant issued. Whatever the evidence was that was presented to the judge in the application for this warrant was deemed sufficient enough to issue the warrant. Don't take this next statement as defending the officers in this video because I am not: Sometimes after a warrant is issued evidence is moved/consumed/destroyed/etc and little or nothing is found during the serving of the warrant.
Sometimes after a warrant is SERVED evidence is moved/CONSUMED/PLANTED/etc and little or nothing is TURNED IN, AFTER the serving of the warrant.
^^^^^ fixed it
Now, hold on a minute. This thread seems a bit multiple-personality to me. Are we talking about: a) A guy guilty of a misdemeanor in his home has the door busted down by SWAT and live fire in his house or, b) this is a group hug for NORML?
My point is that the reaction to the crime was way out of proportion to the legal severity of the crime.
Was the guy an idiot for possessing and smoking pot around his kid? 100%. If he was really a dealer was that *beyond* stupid as a parent? 100%. Does he set a very poor example for his child and put his family at risk for negative legal consequences? Heck, yeah. Idiot.
But I still believe, based on what little we know and saw, that the crime of a misdemeanor amount of marijuana does not warrant the level of violence that we saw on that clip.
Does that mean I think y'all should "toke up" and "resist the mon 'cause Jah says the weed is a blessing?" Only if you're an idiot. If you feel strongly that marijuana must be legal, then "fix" the system through legislation or go somewhere that the community at large agrees with you and has passed laws to that effect.
I have it on good authority that my neighbor has copied a DVD that he got at RedBox. Wrong? Yep. Sets a bad example for the kids? Yep. Prosecuted? Well, ok. Do I believe it warrants having his door kicked in tonight and beset by a SWAT team that shoots his 11 year old Golden Retriever? Hardly.
Maybe an Army Ranger snuck in and stole the evidence Army Rangers, medic arrested on drug, firearms charges - CNN.com
What movie?
Nah, I like the one about the Rangers better
well if the police in the area had been doing their jobs there would'nt have been any drug dealers to rob.
Maybe they were chasing drug dealer robbing Army Rangers
no the police there are freaking clueless. im sure a Ranger is the one who turned in these clowns. Theres no place for discraces like that at Batt or in the Army.
Was the guy an idiot for possessing and smoking pot around his kid? 100%. If he was really a dealer was that *beyond* stupid as a parent? 100%. Does he set a very poor example for his child and put his family at risk for negative legal consequences? Heck, yeah. Idiot.
that's why i have fish, for some reason they never shoot the fish.
Maybe they were chasing drug dealer robbing Army Rangers
Now, hold on a minute. This thread seems a bit multiple-personality to me. Are we talking about: a) A guy guilty of a misdemeanor in his home has the door busted down by SWAT and live fire in his house or, b) this is a group hug for NORML?
Does that mean I think y'all should "toke up" and "resist the mon 'cause Jah says the weed is a blessing?" Only if you're an idiot.
If you feel strongly that marijuana must be legal, then "fix" the system through legislation or go somewhere that the community at large agrees with you and has passed laws to that effect.
Before someone jumps in with it, an "informant" is not just someone who calls the police up randomly and says "so and so has 50lbs of marijuana in his house". For information from an informant to be considered sufficient for a warrant that person must have demonstrated a pattern of providing information to the police which turned out to be truthful and resulted in or contributed to the success of prior investigations. An anonymous phone call doesn't get it done, far from it.
He isn't any more of an idiot (fundamentally and health wise) than the guy who consumes alcohol around his kid. He is equally as stupid as a parent and sets just as bad of an example. The legal consequences are very different, however, for some odd reason. Ignorance? Yeah, I'm guessing ignorance is why there is such a legal difference.