California police raid marijuana shop, caught on video eating edibles, joking about kicking

[ghostsinthemachine]

amputee.


Santa Ana, California police have announced an investigation after video surfaced of a raid on an unlicensed medical marijuana shop in which the officers involved acted extremely unprofessionally.

After using a battering ram to smash down the door, they came in pointing guns at customers and forcing everyone to lay face down. A short time later they can be seen on-camera mocking a female customer with an amputated leg, with one officer laughing and saying “I was about to kick her in her fucking nub!” Other officers can be seen laughing and sampling the marijuana edibles before destroying most of the cameras and recording equipment in the shop.

Watch: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/12/1392844/-California-police-raid-marijuana-shop-caught-on-video-eating-edibles-joking-about-kicking-amputee?detail=facebook_sf

[mountain grammy]

1. Serving and protecting.

[tishaLA]

2. One of the more galling things about this story, besides the abuse....

of the woman with the amputated leg, is this:

Although medical marijuana is legal in Santa Ana, the city refuses to issue any permits, effectively forcing these businesses to operate illegally, something James and Poppa hope to change with the lawsuit.

It pisses me off to no end that we have legal weed in CA and cities decide, almost willy-nilly, to refuse to let the businesses operate. (Don't get me started on the fact that legitimate MMJ businesses cannot even use banks, placing the owners and workers in jeopardy by creating cash-only businesses that are prime targets for criminals.)

[jtuck004]

3. Criminals in Blue.n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. holy shit

holy. fucking. shit.


god, I'm glad that got recorded. Not a chance of justice without that.