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KMFJD

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For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.

good ol' florida...broward county sheriff department made their own crack so they could sell it to people and then arrest them.....just amazing
 

KMFJD

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shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address


biggest gang in the world
 

hal2kilo

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good ol' florida...broward county sheriff department made their own crack so they could sell it to people and then arrest them.....just amazing
Hell, I know an old cocaine dealer that used to work for the Tacoma police.
 
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KMFJD

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The fbi didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess?

white? ~ check
Alt-Right? ~ check
Surprised? ~ nope
 
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hal2kilo

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The fbi didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess?

white? ~ check
Alt-Right? ~ check
Surprised? ~ nope
You never know when you might need one.
 
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hal2kilo

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I'm shocked I tell you.


Robert Morris, the Dallas-area megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, has been indicted in Oklahoma for child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other prominent Republicans.
 

nickqt

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I'm shocked I tell you.


Robert Morris, the Dallas-area megachurch pastor who resigned last year amid sexual abuse allegations, has been indicted in Oklahoma for child sex crimes that date back to the 1980s.

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in politics. In 2020, Trump held a “Roundtable on Transition to Greatness” there that was attended by then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other prominent Republicans.
Not a trans person?
 

hal2kilo

Lifer
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The fbi didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess?

white? ~ check
Alt-Right? ~ check
Surprised? ~ nope
Good ole Virginny.
 

hal2kilo

Lifer
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good ol' florida...broward county sheriff department made their own crack so they could sell it to people and then arrest them.....just amazing
Ah, there used to be nothing but cattle/cows fields on the other side of University blvd, when I lived down there and worked at the Plantation Motorola portable products plant. Spring rains come and the red flashlights and dark clothes would be required to collect the fruiting bodies of the mycelium at night without apprehension by the local popo.
 

pmv

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Not sure this is the right thread. Really weird case, IMO.

Does seem to say something about the way these sorts of laws get used. Cops and government lawyers want to find ways of having a go at people they don't like, so such laws tend to get interpreted in eccentric ways for that purpose (like the case of the Asian protestor prosecuted for calling Suella Braverman a 'coconut')

At the same time, I know plenty of black people (particularly outside the US, and especially older generations) react badly even to other black people using that word. Does it ultimately just depend on the race of the person using it? Still, in the end, it seems to me that either the lawyers who launched this prosecution were either just really really dim, or it was a deliberate way of misusing the law to achieve the reverse of its intended purpose, because they don't like the law in the first place.


 
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pmv

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Not entirely sure what to make of this. On reading the story it doesn't sound like he's your run-of-the-mill Church-of-England vicar. More like the leader of a full-on weird cult. It's not entirely clear to me if he was still a C of E vicar while he had this...arrangement.

Still, seems consistent with the way that the more people bang on about God, the more sleazy their behaviour is likely to be.




A former vicar who led an evangelical movement between 1986 and 1995 has been found guilty of 17 counts of indecent assault against nine women.

The court heard that a “homebase team” was set up to “care for” Brain – referred to as the Lycra lovelies or the Lycra nuns – and witnesses reported seeing the defendant surrounded by attractive women in lingerie at his home, looking after his needs.
 
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OMG.


This bit takes it to a whole other level

Those arrested are said to include detective chief inspector and two detective inspector, one of whom works in the Directorate of Professional Standards which is investigating them.

Those held also include a detective sergeant.

We've moved on from "who polices the police" to "who polices the police police who are supposed to police the police"?