Another day, another family pet shot by a police officer who entered the wrong home. More here, including details indicating that the deputy’s story doesn’t quite add up. My inventory of dogs shot on drug raids here.
Students victimized in the infamous Goose Creek high school drug raids will get between $6,000 and $12,000 each.
Another doctor goes down in the painkiller wars. This one is 70 years old, and will spend the rest of his life in prison. His crime? Not catching patients who were “doctor shopping” for prescription meds. Such is the absurdity of the painkiller campaign. A doctor can be convicted and sentenced to prison for getting duped. Incidentally, the attorney general crowing about Dr. Merrill’s sentence in the press is also running for governor of Florida, and appears to be the frontrunner. That doesn’t bode well for Richard Paey.
A case of possible jury nullification in Orlando. Good for them.
One small couny in Iowa has seized over $2 million in “drug money” over the last four years, all from traffic stops along the interstate that runs through the county. Most was seized by the Sheriff’s Department. The Des Moines Register reports that, “Sheriff Brian Gilbert and his deputies seized $1.75 million in cash and vehicles over the past four years, much of it from black and Latino drivers who were stopped for traffic violations in vehicles with out-of-state plates.” The suspects are frequently never charged, and a substantial amount of the cash is now unaccounted for. As for the accounted-for money, it’s been used to outfit the Sheriff’s Department with, “laptop computers, stun guns, training classes and repairs to an oversized, inflatable deputy used to entertain children at community parades.”
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