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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCops Caught Eating Pot Edibles during Marijuana Dispensary Raid
The Weekly has received footage from a recent marijuana dispensary raid that appears to show Santa Ana police officers eating pot candy and throwing darts after destroying--or so they thought--all the surveillance cameras inside the cannabis shop.
The video footage shows an officer stuffing something into his mouth and handing something to another cop, who asks him "What flavor?" The officers then laugh. The footage is too grainy to be certain that the item that the officer picks up from the counter of the cannabis shop is in fact a pot edible, although the behavior of the officers suggests this is the case.
Also in the footage: a female police officer joking that she wanted to kick Marla James--a marijuana activist and wheelchair-bound amputee who was present during the raid--in her "nub."
As the Weekly reported yesterday, a Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the city's Measure BB, which will allow some 20 dispensaries to operate legally in Santa Ana. The judge's order came in response to lawsuits filed by dispensaries that failed to win during the city's controversial Feb. 5 lottery process.
video at link
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/06/santa_ana_cops_caught_on_camera_eating_pot_candy_joking_about_kicking_amputee_patient_in_her_nub.php
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I figured it was like that, so their own level of law is a standard lower then what they expect from the people they are supposed to protect and serve.
Thugs with guns and a love for violence...pathetic.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Each city could have them. They could tell cops, "On the ground!" Then they could search the cops for weapons, drugs and bribe money.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Without an outrageous story of kkkops bullying, abusing, or murdering the citizenry.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)but I can't entirely blame em, I mean....free edibles, from a certain perspective, right?
Just so happens it makes them hypocritical !@#!@$!%!.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Destroying the video cameras so they couldn't be filmed, the rest of the shit, they'd get a pass.
But they DID teh POT so...
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)pursuit of law and order and protecting the community, ye know? We can't let officers be reprimanded for such little things, BUT DAT MAR-JU-WANNA
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)That's because they don't respect normal everyday civilians. Fucking pigs!
LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)but they show so little toward other people. If you aren't a cop, you're a scumbag to them.
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Seriously not cool.
BTW I'm sure you didn't catch that when you put the laughing guy down, but I thought I should point it out.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Terrible.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)We also saw the cops in question get away with it free of charges.
mainer
(12,037 posts)Because cops clearly try to destroy video of their raids.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Seems it will be up to us the citizen to self-police, since cops have a different agenda.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Response to JI7 (Original post)
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,370 posts)In what fucking universe is it OK to tear private property ( the cameras) off the walls in a raid?
I mean, they have an excuse for seizing the DVR(s) - but what the fuck is the excuse for ripping out cameras? I mean, besides the fact they are criminal pigs.
Sgt. Stedenko: The only way to catch a doper is when you yourself become a smoker. The surest way to make them bleed is when you bust their ass and steal their weed.
mainer
(12,037 posts)I don't care about the dart throwing. I don't really care too much about their eating the pot. What scares me most is their destruction of cameras and surveillance video and how routine it looked for them. As if they're so accustomed to hiding their misdeeds that they don't even think twice about it.
JEB
(4,748 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)It makes it sound like she's into BDSM or something. Ms. James "uses a wheelchair".
Thank you.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)They wouldn't be in trouble.
Bad Toys Bad Toys What ya gonna do when they break on you.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)Coming in with ski mask on just like they are robbing the place. Which is exactly what they are doing. Trying to kick in doors that are unlocked and open to customers.
This is a disgusting display of abuse of power and trambling the rights of citizens.
They truly live up (or down) to being called pigs. Even pigs are better then these waste of space, and air.
Our law enforcement is pathetic in this country. We need new comphrensive training and we need officers to be focusing on real crimes with real victims. Not harrassing peaceful citizens with plants.