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Anthony sent me a story via Yahoo news about a man who was handcuffed and
detained by police burn our
after giving 75 cents in coal mines
to a homeless person Greg Snyder was in Houston Texas parking lot
he was on the phone making a business call and while he was just in the
parking lot a homeless man came up to his car
and ask them for some change Snyder gave the man 75 cents and then drove away
when he pulled onto the nearby highway police pulled him over
he was surprised at the level of aggression from the police officer
according to what he told KPRC
he's screaming he's yelling he's telling me to get out of the car
is telling me to put my hands on the hood they're like we saw you downtown we
know what you did
and I was like are you kidding me I gave a homeless man hand
75 cents get dragged out of the car
handcuffed and then police say you gave the homeless man drugs
of course he didn't he gave the man 75 cents in points
10 police cars show up they do a full search of his vehicle
the drugs they have course find absolutely no drugs
he claims that the police also damaged his car ripping it apart to find the
drugs that of course we're not there
and also alleges that police were laughing about the mistake
and laughing about the damage done to his car police Louis are not commenting
about this incident what's hard to decipher about this Louis
is whether police are doing this because if they're
fixation with the war on drugs and what they believe drugs do this society
somehow I find that a little bit hard to believe
is it because if the kinda police state type situation that has come up
based on latitude in terms of searches and seizures and and
warrantless searches that police do what is this really about
it honestly I think this is about some
cop who are thought he saw a drug transaction it but %um southborough
you're gonna sell drugs in my city of show you I i think it's really that
simple
I don't know if if he he even get
thinks about the the war on drugs I when something like this happens yeah and
and I think this it you never know when it's going to go well and when it's not
going to go well but this is one of those times where
you really want to do everything you can to assert your rights and
not speak to police at all say nothing
unless there is a lawyer there say a my being detained
and otherwise a my free to go however if the police
think they've actually seen you observed you giving drugs to someone
that at least in the short term may count as probable cause and
even asserting your basic rights and not consenting to searches
a might actually lead to you getting beat up yeah
there's a good chance that and who just walks around like handing out drugs
I that seems kinda strange to you yeah unless he believed that this was
literally a drug deal
would randomly hand drugs to a panhandle that age is just not have this makes any
sense at all