https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/12232742945/ninth...
The Ninth Circuit:
"We recognize that the allegation of any theft by police officers - most certainly the theft of over $225,000 - is deeply disturbing. Whether that conduct violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, however, would not "be 'clear to a reasonable officer.'""
Note: Theft! Not asset forfeiture, but actual theft!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/06/witness-in-a...
"authorities have not identified a suspect or determined a motive."
Internal affairs clearly isn't a thing in the US. Or, if it is, it's a thing that doesn't work, coz when the witness of somebody getting murdered by a cop gets murdered in suspicious circumstances then it's not all that hard to identify a motive.
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190909/12232742945/ninth....
> The Ninth Circuit:
> "We recognize that the allegation of any theft by police officers - most certainly the theft of over $225,000 - is deeply disturbing. Whether that conduct violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, however, would not "be 'clear to a reasonable officer.'""
Ignorance of the law is no defense...oh wait.
This is unheard of in other first world countries, especially in Europe. I'm American but I've lived in England, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland where the cops are really polite civil servants. In the UK, cops don't even carry guns.
The current state of affairs in the US, including rapid militarization of police, is a harbinger of things to come.