The purpose here is not so much to get catch this particular drug dealer, but rather a part of the continual expansion of the police state. Between LEOs who believe that there actions have no boundaries, and complicit judges who are more interested in the destruction of the Constitution than dispensing justice, the nations rulers will be called "the blue shirts."
Then there was also the false arrest of the guy who posted the storekeepers personal video to the net, without which this would have gone down just like the cops wanted it to. So the retaliated in order to keep their honor, and the fear of the community intact.
I know what SCOTUS said about the cops not being held to the legal standard that the citizenry is. But why bother to train cops if they can't be held to a standard? Just give them an M2, and have them vacuum up the streets.
The so called evidence was not at the crime scene, but at least 20' away. Do the police have the right to detain anyone at any distance from a crime?
According to SCOTUS, after being detained for 90 minutes, the detention becomes an arrest. There was no basis for this arrest, nor questioning him without the presence of a lawyer. The store owner had no obligation to talk to the police whatsoever. His arrest was therefore quite illegal.
Again, according to SCOTUS, it is only under the rarest of circumstances that police have the right to remand an involved person's property, in particular a picture or video. And we know that any video that the police don't like is probably going to disapear.
There are more ways for LEOs to invent new crimes, or simply commit old ones, than there are ways for the citizenry to take a decade long trip to SCOTUS to attempt to obtain relief. Especially when there is little chance of any LEOs being held responsible for even the most egregious of acts of violence, sexual attack, murder. theft, kidnapping and more.
The racial divide is fostered by the powers that be because it ignores that more whites, though a lower percentage, are killed by cops. But that propaganda works out well for those who would keep us divided by race, and hence less a threat to their using human targets for shooting and beating practice.
Exoneration in court means nothing when a cop is on trial. Jurors just see what the prosecution tells them to see most of the time. Even where video has totally demonstrated that the cop was in the wrong, the cops have been acquitted. Too many people just do not want to believe that the cop in their neighborhood is a killer.
As always, the powers that be will decide to deal with this situation with more thoughtless power. Which in turn will ramp up the retaliation, and the worm will swallow its own tail.
I have never understood the analogy that it is "only a few rotten apples," because we all know that it takes only one rotten apple to spoil the barrel.
The only answer to this problem is to hold police responsible for what they do. Without a sense of justice these episodes will become horribly commonplace.
These infringement cases are not unlike the FBI framing of attorney Brandon Mayfield who was arrested and jailed for the Spanish Railroad bombing based on wishful thinking by the FBI. Not only was he proven to be in the US when the bombing took place, but Spanish police said that the recovered fingerprint was absolutely not his.
There are judges in the US who have ruled that fingerprint evidence has not passed Daubert. There is no way that an IP address could pass Daubert except that judges are ignorant and fearful of computers and the Web.
Google and Facebook give all appearances of joining the rest of the mass media in censorship on purely political grounds.
And it is quite effective as demonstrated by the NY Times holding back the proof of torture at Gitmo for about a year, which allowed Bush43 to re-elected.
Never mind the loss of free elections when the physical process was taken over by electronic machines. Scandals erupt in the abuse of this voting abuse, but they are then hushed up. Even when the population should be outraged. Mark Foley is one that never got his due inspection on that issue.
And then there are always the scandals of the thick blue line that rarely get light shown upon them.
What does it take for for people to start noticing these things.
Does anyone expect any other type of behavior from this industry? I am not particularly thrilled with regulations and socializing of the communications industry, but their behavior makes it clear that this is the only way to keep this group under control.
While the NSA may be stronger, more powerful and have a great reach, it is hardly what one should call healthy. It is diseased with multiple isms which are contagious and intensively destructive of its host. These include, but are not no way limited to, lying, perjury, mendacity, perfidy, blackmail, oligarchy, theft, murder, torture and more.
There is a good reason for the FBI to not use encryption. Unlike other FBI computer systems, high quality encryption is available for mere thousands of dollars, not the billion+ it spent on its last failure. Once installed, encryption makes little or no further addition to the labor burden, thus not justifying more staff.
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I know what SCOTUS said about the cops not being held to the legal standard that the citizenry is. But why bother to train cops if they can't be held to a standard? Just give them an M2, and have them vacuum up the streets.
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According to SCOTUS, after being detained for 90 minutes, the detention becomes an arrest. There was no basis for this arrest, nor questioning him without the presence of a lawyer. The store owner had no obligation to talk to the police whatsoever. His arrest was therefore quite illegal.
Again, according to SCOTUS, it is only under the rarest of circumstances that police have the right to remand an involved person's property, in particular a picture or video. And we know that any video that the police don't like is probably going to disapear.
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They committed an illegal arrest.
False imprisonment.
The use of actual or implied force to cause him to commit a crime.
Theft of a security system.
Raid of premises without a warrant.
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"legal" crime wave
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/wp/2015/12/26/2015/12/26/a-year-of-reckoning-pol ice-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000/
The racial divide is fostered by the powers that be because it ignores that more whites, though a lower percentage, are killed by cops. But that propaganda works out well for those who would keep us divided by race, and hence less a threat to their using human targets for shooting and beating practice.
Exoneration in court means nothing when a cop is on trial. Jurors just see what the prosecution tells them to see most of the time. Even where video has totally demonstrated that the cop was in the wrong, the cops have been acquitted. Too many people just do not want to believe that the cop in their neighborhood is a killer.
On the post: Two Days, Two Shootings, Two Sets Of Cops Making Recordings Disappear
I have never understood the analogy that it is "only a few rotten apples," because we all know that it takes only one rotten apple to spoil the barrel.
The only answer to this problem is to hold police responsible for what they do. Without a sense of justice these episodes will become horribly commonplace.
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Electronic voting machines are as good as encryption with multiple back doors. Voting on the web is less secure.
The average person has basically no knowledge on which to make decisions. Look at the recent string of elected officials/candidates.
Democracy/Republic may be better than anything else, but they devolve to oligarchy backed by police states.
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Electronic voting machines are as good as encryption with multiple back doors. Voting on the web is less secure.
The average person has basically no knowledge on which to make decisions. Look at the recent string of elected officials/candidates.
Democracy/Republic may be better than anything else, but they devolve to oligarchy backed by police states.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing
These infringement cases are not unlike the FBI framing of attorney Brandon Mayfield who was arrested and jailed for the Spanish Railroad bombing based on wishful thinking by the FBI. Not only was he proven to be in the US when the bombing took place, but Spanish police said that the recovered fingerprint was absolutely not his.
There are judges in the US who have ruled that fingerprint evidence has not passed Daubert. There is no way that an IP address could pass Daubert except that judges are ignorant and fearful of computers and the Web.
On the post: This Will Backfire: Google/Facebook Using Copyright Tools To Remove 'Extremist' Content
And it is quite effective as demonstrated by the NY Times holding back the proof of torture at Gitmo for about a year, which allowed Bush43 to re-elected.
Never mind the loss of free elections when the physical process was taken over by electronic machines. Scandals erupt in the abuse of this voting abuse, but they are then hushed up. Even when the population should be outraged. Mark Foley is one that never got his due inspection on that issue.
And then there are always the scandals of the thick blue line that rarely get light shown upon them.
What does it take for for people to start noticing these things.
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NSA Healthy?
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This is merely Apple doing what Apple does worst, and all too often. Decide what its customers should see and hear.
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