• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    And what always gets me is law enforcement loves to show the drugs and money and guns together. Like people can’t legitimately have guns and money without being dealers.

    Might as well show how many cans of soup they had too.

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      “law enforcement officials today seized 250 pounds of marijuana today, along with 13 firearms and 275 cans of Progresso chunky style stew. Officials claim hoarding that much soup deprived needy food banks of essential resources. The soup is set to be destroyed with the rest of the evidence after the case comes to a close. Next up in weather Pact Nicely has some bad news for us in store for the weekend! Coming up right after this”

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        275 cans of Progresso chunky style stew

        C’mon, we all know that’s ridiculous! A normal human person would only buy 100 cans, and it has to be Campbell’s.

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      i think they have to show the money for documentation, because they may have to give it back, if it’s not profits from crimes. they will probably fight tooth and nail to keep it tho, because after a while the department may get to use it to buy new toys.

      the guns may be illegal guns, depending on region. like if serial numbers got removed or the state allows only half automatics, but they are full, etc…

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        because they may have to give it back

        BAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        give it back. Holy shit that’s a good one.

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            17 hours ago

            So, sadly, unless you’re proven innocent in court and your possessions are also proven innocent in court at a different trial that happens without you ever knowing about it, it’s gone.

            Any valuables, including money, jewelry, watches, your car, even your shoes, on you while you commit a crime are also guilty of that crime, and will be used for any police propose. The justification can be laughably thin, it just has to be there. “We auctioned his watch and his Nikes because he needed the watch to know what time to go to his drug deal, and he needed his shoes to get there.”

            Mind you, they can “prove” you are a drug dealer if you just have more drugs on you than a reasonable person would use in a single sitting.

            So a guy goes to buy a week’s worth of weed for himself, gets pulled over on the way home, he’s a drug dealer now.