Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by koolba on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:59PM (#25341604)

> Justice is to be blind. Which means if a crackhead and a cop come to a judge and requests the legal authority to break into a home with lethal force, the judge should weigh both requests the same.

A judge does not have the power to grant a random private citizen the right to break into someone else’s home, with or without legal force, under any circumstance. Even a court order to allow breaking into your own property, say to evict squatters or tenants, would involve law enforcement. The judge can’t just deputize you like it’s the Wild West.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by fountainofage on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:08PM (#25341658)

That's my point - not that a judge should grant a warrant to a crackhead, but that they should act as if they're granting a warrant to a crackhead. So basically the opinions, social standing, and claims of the entity requesting the warrant are irrelevant. Only the actual evidence should be considered by a judge when granting a "right to wantonly kill" because that's exactly what a warrant is at the end of the day. It should be taken very seriously, and unfortunately, it's not.

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