On November 2, 2002, a large group of police officers in tactical gear descended on a rave party in Racine, Wisconsin. The cops kicked in doors, dragged young people from bathroom stalls, threw others to the floor, and held dozens more at gunpoint.
The police issued more than 450 citations of $968 each to partygoers merely for attending an event where some attendees were breaking the state’s drug laws. Only three people were arrested on actual drug charges. With help from the ACLU, the city of Racine eventually dismissed the charges against all attendees who hadn’t yet pleaded guilty.
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Some of the raids highlighted are UNBELIEVABLE!
Swat teaming an entire high school
for a luke warm tip about a single child the MAY (or may not!) have weeds for sale? Presumption of innocence and all that stuff?
This is the Police state all the tin foil hat types warned about. Police are really tough when it comes to a high school full of unarmed teenagers, or a rave party, yet they won't perform these operations at known infested neighborhoods even when they see people dealing in the open.
Just imagine the drugs and guns they could get in one block of Church street or the reservation. Oh, what am I thinking... It'll never happen because they might shoot back and the PC crowd would cry racism. They really don't have the gugunga's they claim.
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