Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on...
Robert and Addie Harte had to spend $25,000 to find out why a SWAT team mistakenly raided their home.
Hasnain says:
"of course, we can’t have the media looking into critical public safety initiatives like “Operation Constant Gardener.” If such scrutiny revealed that cops consider merely shopping at a garden supply store to be suspicious behavior, that drug testing field kits are more about circumventing the Fourth Amendment than accurate results or that a sheriff’s boast of having shut down a drug operation run by an “average family” in a “good neighborhood” was actually a terrifying raid in which SWAT cops held two kids at gunpoint because their mother enjoyed drinking tea … well, some people might begin to question the wisdom of the drug war."
Posted on 2015-12-29T02:02:43+0000