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Woman Sues After Arrest For Carrying Flour in Condoms | 63 comments (63 topical)
Re: Woman Sues After Arrest For Carrying Flour in (none / 0) (#15)
by roy on Thu Dec 29, 2005 at 12:42:05 PM EST
If the cops lied about or screwed with the field test, then I hope she gets a dumptruck full of cash. Tax free. With "I'm sorry" hand-written on each bill. And I hope somebody charges the cops with aggravated kidnapping. But that doesn't seem likely. What did the cops have to gain? Nobody would fault them for stopping the girl and testing the stuff in the condoms, even if the tests were negative. And drug charges are so common that the cops would have known that lab tests would be done and she'd be exonerated, meaning they probably knew that lying would be more harmful than not lying. Plus, why would they claim that the condoms contained an unusual mix of drugs instead of just one? What's more likely, that two people made up an obviously easily disproven lie for no apparent gain, or that a piece of technology failed? Yeah, she told them it was flour. And they did something to check her story: sent the stuff to a lab. It's worrisome that it took 3 weeks to get those results, but she's suing over the arrest and not the later investigation. The lawsuit will force open some records. Maybe these particular cops liked to add food coloring to their drug test kits, or were just bullies. But for now this looks like an unfortunate, but totally understandable, mistake. Maybe the test is so flawed, or was so badly executed, that the girl should be compensated. Depends on technical details we don't have. (Assuming the gov has any business whatsoever restricting cocaine or opium -- a topic for an open thread)

Woman Sues After Arrest For Carrying Flour in Condoms | 63 comments (63 topical)

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