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Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police
Attorney General Eric Holder is barring local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without evidence that a crime occurred. The Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr. explains the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago.
Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing.
Attorney General Eric Holder is barring local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without evidence that a crime occurred. The Post's Robert O'Harrow Jr. explains the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago.
Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing.
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i bet A LOT of the cops who were picked on in school became piece of shit cop killers!! i know a few kids as well who were picked on, (one a ginger-LOL), who became beat cops just driving around looking for people who-- looked like people who picked on them lol.
man, what i dont get about all of these fucking bitch ass cops=---who after they SHOOT, BEAT, and KILL, they actually try to put handcuffs on these victims!!
are you fucking for real?
are they FUCKING FOR REAL!!??
theyre lying there bleeding to death, unconscious, then they try telling them putting their hand behind their backs, man, fucking pigs like these deserve to die!!
there are good cops, but there are a lot of pussies that abuse their powers!!
Michigan Police Seized Cancer Patient's Assets In Raid In 2013, Still Trying To Take Home Over Plants
Williams, a 72-year-old, retired carpenter and cancer patient who is disabled and carries a medical marijuana card.
Michigan laws allow police to seize assets even when no criminal charges are filed.
Study says Michigan is among the worst in protecting citizens from unlawful seizures by police.
Police defend seizing homes, cash, cars, insist forfeitures help fight crime, stop drug trafficking.
State, federal lawmakers introducing new bills to curb "abusive" property seizures by police.
When he protested, they handcuffed him and left him on the living room floor as they ransacked his home, emptying drawers, rummaging through closets and surveying his grow room, where he was nourishing his 12 personal marijuana plants as allowed by law. Some had recently begun to die, so he had cloned them and had new seedlings, although they were not yet planted. That, police insisted, put him over the limit.
They did not charge Williams with a crime, though.
Police targeted Williams because he had been on the board of directors of a "compassion club" in Battle Creek, an hour away, and his name had turned up in records in a raid there, Grow said, even though he had not been involved with the club since 2011. The seizure, Grow contends, was particularly vicious.
"He is disabled and lives alone. They took the man's cell phone and his car, and left him out there alone. He doesn't have a landline. He was stranded out there for three days until somebody stopped by."
The agency that conducted the raid, the Southwestern Enforcement Team, operated by the Michigan State Police, declined to discuss the case, except to say forfeitures are an important tool in fighting crime.
That team, which operates in southwest Michigan, seized $376,612 in cash and assets that year.
Instead, they took his Dodge Journey, $11,000 in cash from his home, his television, his cell phone, his shotgun and are attempting to take his Colon Township home. And they plan to keep the proceeds, auctioning off the property and putting the cash in police coffers.
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Williams, a 72-year-old, retired carpenter and cancer patient who is disabled and carries a medical marijuana card.
Michigan laws allow police to seize assets even when no criminal charges are filed.
Study says Michigan is among the worst in protecting citizens from unlawful seizures by police.
Police defend seizing homes, cash, cars, insist forfeitures help fight crime, stop drug trafficking.
State, federal lawmakers introducing new bills to curb "abusive" property seizures by police.
When he protested, they handcuffed him and left him on the living room floor as they ransacked his home, emptying drawers, rummaging through closets and surveying his grow room, where he was nourishing his 12 personal marijuana plants as allowed by law. Some had recently begun to die, so he had cloned them and had new seedlings, although they were not yet planted. That, police insisted, put him over the limit.
They did not charge Williams with a crime, though.
Police targeted Williams because he had been on the board of directors of a "compassion club" in Battle Creek, an hour away, and his name had turned up in records in a raid there, Grow said, even though he had not been involved with the club since 2011. The seizure, Grow contends, was particularly vicious.
"He is disabled and lives alone. They took the man's cell phone and his car, and left him out there alone. He doesn't have a landline. He was stranded out there for three days until somebody stopped by."
The agency that conducted the raid, the Southwestern Enforcement Team, operated by the Michigan State Police, declined to discuss the case, except to say forfeitures are an important tool in fighting crime.
That team, which operates in southwest Michigan, seized $376,612 in cash and assets that year.
Instead, they took his Dodge Journey, $11,000 in cash from his home, his television, his cell phone, his shotgun and are attempting to take his Colon Township home. And they plan to keep the proceeds, auctioning off the property and putting the cash in police coffers.
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So far since this film the police and bodycam stuff started I've seen like 4 clean shoots and one questionable one, which was that guy throwing rocks in pasco, eastern washington
Here's another clean shoot that also gives you a sense of how chaotic it is when someone resists, how hard they can be to control even with multiple officers that are bigger and stronger, how little time officers have to make serious life and death decisions and what kind of extreme stress they face in those situations with a bonus of angry unpredictable bleeding heart bystanders compounding everything and making it even worse. Obviously none of us are cut from the same cloth as these fine officers of the law, and even though we can never know what its like since just we're bystanders at least these videos will start giving us a little more insight. This is especially important for those ignorants who were raised from birth to be prejudice against the police, and who attack and criticize the police at every opportunity without any facts or basis in reality.
Here's another clean shoot that also gives you a sense of how chaotic it is when someone resists, how hard they can be to control even with multiple officers that are bigger and stronger, how little time officers have to make serious life and death decisions and what kind of extreme stress they face in those situations with a bonus of angry unpredictable bleeding heart bystanders compounding everything and making it even worse. Obviously none of us are cut from the same cloth as these fine officers of the law, and even though we can never know what its like since just we're bystanders at least these videos will start giving us a little more insight. This is especially important for those ignorants who were raised from birth to be prejudice against the police, and who attack and criticize the police at every opportunity without any facts or basis in reality.
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You're out of your fucking mind Butcher.... I dunno if you're just trollin & trying to defend the police due to you being a rent a cop, but this video does not show at all that man going for anyones gun.
there was 9 pigs on him at once, they should be trained to handle these situations without death.
fuck this police state bullshit, that was cold blooded murder & pigs do it all too often.
FTP!!
there was 9 pigs on him at once, they should be trained to handle these situations without death.
fuck this police state bullshit, that was cold blooded murder & pigs do it all too often.
FTP!!