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yesterday I told you the story out of Florida were Florida police were luring
*** buyers from all over the country in South America and Canada
paying informants millions of dollars cumulatively
all too get people to come into their
jurisdiction so they could then execute drug bust
on buyers not on seller's we now have an even more absurd story
out over reason dot com brought this up this is out of California
and duggan Catherine snodgrass are the parents have an artistic
Sun and the autistic son had trouble making friends in school always had
trouble making friends and after
his new new school year started he came home he told his parents
I've got this friend I got this friend and a
it's great he's a really good guy and I think I have a friend so
it turns out that this friend was
a police officer he was like the school undercover
resource type: officer who was there and had decided to target
there clearly autistic son
to try to convince him to buy some marijuana
it was not something that the autistic boy ever plan to do
he was not a drug user he was not a drug buyer he was not selling drugs
and eventually he did he actually went any
bought half a joint if we need from someone downtown from a homeless guy
hanging out in his downtown
and was subsequently arrested eventually
this was he was eventually expelled from from school
and the family hired a private attorney
took the case to court and was a fat eventually found not guilty due to
extenuating circumstances the judge had him undergo
informal probation and perform 20 hours of community service and then
mandated that he be reinstated into school the police
should be suffering the consequences here not the child
what type a police officer
would not realize this is
an artistic child which according to the parents
he has very noticeable challenges with
regular aspect of life every single day
and create a situation where he plants the idea of buying drugs in the boy's
mind
and then gets the kid arrested we're going downtown and buying half a joint
I have smoke joint from a homeless man
this is the epitome above the failure
above the drug war yeah and
I this is a this is so so incredible
this shouldn't be happening with any kate is a matter if it's an autistic kid
who clearly would be more susceptible to this type up by
influence from the police officer but why would this be happening at all i
mean since when are you setting people up to buy
and then busting them I mean isn't usually the people who are selling
where you're going after this just makes no sense right and we're talking about
half a joint and the other thing was buy it for me it wasn't even buy and use
that buy it and give it to me as because I'm your friend
it's absolutely pathetic