> That's how the police in America operate now; even for the most common interactions w/the public.

You cannot generalize police forces across the entire country that way. I've never had such an interaction with a police officer, presumably because the police department in my city is run better than that.

Are you white?

That's lucky. My county sheriff implemented predictive policing [1] until they were forced to stop because of many constitutional violations.

1. https://ij.org/press-release/case-closed-pasco-sheriff-admit...

Wow. I know people are talking about how they are using 1984 as an instruction manual. But I'd hope we wouldn't be stupid enough to try and re=enact The Minority Report , especially without the Sci fi psychic humans.

Its more likely because affluent people live in that area who can afford to drop $100k on a lawyer and sue the department. If you are in an area where people are poor and can't drop that kind of money on a lawyer and get the case pushed to state or federal courts the cops know they won't get in trouble for being pieces of shit and see citizens as an easy source of funding to exploit.

If you were to take a positive intent approach:

- the warrant was for distribution of narcotics and kiddnapping.

If I were to guess what a list of most dangerous warrants to execute, those two would be up there.

If you note in the video, he jokingly plays around the drugs part. I am not sure where the kidnapping part comes from, but Afroman is not necessarily a household name amongst middle-aged white police officers, so I imagine they just saw "drugs and kidnapping" and went for it.

And that's part of the issue.

The kidnapping claim was there was a sex dungeon in the house. The house does not have a basement.

And all of this was obviously pretextual, unless you believe drugs and women were hidden between cds or in whatever pieces of the kitchen they destroyed.

Gotta check between the slices of cake, never know what it could be hiding

They did the same when they raided Roger Stone.

Roger Stone had a history of making violent threats and long association with an armed paramilitary group. There was also the tape recording of him appearing to plan violence against two Democratic elected officials.

Afroman, by contrast, smokes a lot of weed.