Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants
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Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants
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#2Ragweed grows rampantly where I live and at certain times of the year looks quite a bit like cannabis. So now I have to worry that the DEA will come smash down my door over weeds? Terrible Times.
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#3Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
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#4Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
They visited him with a SWAT Team. That's different than a copper in a squad car.
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#5Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
Sure, if by "visited" you mean "surrounded the house with a helicopter, a bunch of police vehicles, armed officers and a dog". It's true that it could have been worse - it wasn't a "no-knock" raid - but it was still a raid.
And they did take some of the plant material, so "seized" seems appropriate too.
Unless the homeowner had the option of saying "Sorry, I don't grant you permission to invade my home and garden" whereupon the officers would all just go away, it was a raid.
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#6Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
It appears to have been an old-fashioned "raid" where they knock on the door and ask what's going on. Not like the modern "raid" where they kick the door down treating the whole thing as an excuse to practice full-breach procedures.
I would also like to know what the definition of "heavily armed K9 unit" is in this case. Was the officer armed normally for his role on the force or was he decked out as a "coperator" playing soldier?
But if this is the result of current policy of enforcing drug laws then I would say this is an improvement over the no-knock nonsense we've been seeing for years now.
EDIT: actually, other than the word "raided" there's no real description of the behavior of the police officers involved. Seems to be a badly worded article that goes out of its way to not provide any facts.
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#8Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
Raid?
Yes, Raid.
The article clearly mentioned "a heavily-armed K9 unit." The property owner could have easily been killed, in that situation. Why do you feel the need to describe it as a harmless "visit"?
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#9Raid? They visited him, saw the okra, apologized and left.
Raid? Yes, Raid. The article clearly mentioned "a heavily-armed K9 unit." The property owner could have easily been killed, in that situation. Why do you feel the need to describe it as a harmless "visit"?
I wish I knew why they couldn't just send 2 officers to knock on the door and ask, if the home owner refused then bring in a task force. US Police get more money when they send in a force than just one or two officers.
That was a semi-raid, because they didn't break down his door and force him to the ground while ransacking his house.
Still a raid yes.
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#10Ragweed grows rampantly where I live and at certain times of the year looks quite a bit like cannabis. So now I have to worry that the DEA will come smash down my door over weeds? Terrible Times.
It'd be pretty nice if they knocked politely and pulled the weeds up for me