Police Excess Roundup

Friday, August 11th, 2006
  • Weird story in New Mexico, where legendary race car drivers Bobby Unser and Al Unser, Sr. are arrested, roughed-up a bit, and hauled off to jail by a SWAT team after attempting to access their property during a standoff. Watch the video.
  • Two officers illegally enter a home in Manchester, New Hampshire, where a frightened 15-year-old confronts them. As her father notes, they’re he wasn’t home and armed. Note that the police chief refuses to name the officers involved. Exactly who do they work for, again?
  • Here’s a fluff piece on the SWAT team in Ventura County, California, home to “some of the safest communities in America.”
  • If you haven’t yet, check out Nick Gillespie’s Reason feature on childrens’ drawings for the ATF. Indoctrinate them early. One reader points to this one, which actually looks like they’re planning an assault on the family dog!
  • In the U.K., two kids are arrested, fingerprinted, DNA tested, and jailed — for playing in a tree.

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