Disgrace to the uniform and badge they wear
Jun 11, 2015 23:04:00 GMT -6
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Post by 727sky on Jun 11, 2015 23:04:00 GMT -6
They managed to destroy one camera system but unbeknown to them there was another video recording device.. Not the first time another video appears and the cops do everything to back track and CYA.
voiceofoc.org/2015/06/santa-ana-to-investigate-police-conduct-in-pot-shop-raid/
Attorney Matthew Pappas, who edited and produced the clips before providing them to Voice of OC, says the video shows officers eating food laced with marijuana, known in pot lingo as “edibles,” and seized during the raid. Officers also played darts inside the pot shop while apparently completing an inventory of the shop’s contents. Pappas represents the shuttered Sky High Holistic dispensary where the video was recorded.
The clips also show officers dismantling video equipment and cameras, indicating they didn’t know other cameras continued to record their activities.“I’m filing a lawsuit, so [the police] can get the raw footage in discovery,” Pappas said.
Pappas claims the lawsuit will include evidence of a “high ranking city official” having a “pecuniary interest in the operations of a lottery winning collective,” and that this official, whom Pappas declined to name, likely had a hand in directing the police raids.
According to dispensary operators and city officials, dozens of marijuana shops had been operating in the city in recent years. Under the measure passed last November, the city held a lottery for collectives to win a chance at applying for a permit. The city deems all dispensaries without a permit to be operating illegally.
The clips also show officers dismantling video equipment and cameras, indicating they didn’t know other cameras continued to record their activities.“I’m filing a lawsuit, so [the police] can get the raw footage in discovery,” Pappas said.
Pappas claims the lawsuit will include evidence of a “high ranking city official” having a “pecuniary interest in the operations of a lottery winning collective,” and that this official, whom Pappas declined to name, likely had a hand in directing the police raids.
According to dispensary operators and city officials, dozens of marijuana shops had been operating in the city in recent years. Under the measure passed last November, the city held a lottery for collectives to win a chance at applying for a permit. The city deems all dispensaries without a permit to be operating illegally.
