Santa Ana pot shop raid sparks investigation....cops eating pot edibles

[Serpo]

The Santa Ana Police Department will launch an internal affairs investigation after being provided video clips showing officers engaging in questionable behavior during a police raid last month on a medical marijuana dispensary, Police Chief Carlos Rojas told Voice of OC this week.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKTfUHfeKM

[midnight rambler]

They were merely checking the inventory to make sure what they seized was only the forbidden items. Duh.

[Serpo]

also

Officer Fired For Ticket To 3-Year-Old Who Urinated On Lawn http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Officer-fired-for-ticket-to-3-year-old.jpg

An officer was fired for giving a ticket to a 3-year-old who urinated on his lawn.
The officer who was fired, Ken Qualls, issued the ticket to the mother of the 3-year-old boy, Dillan Warden, after the boy unzipped his pants and prepared to urinate in the family’s front lawn, MSN reported (http://now.msn.com/ken-qualls-fired-for-writing-dollar2500-ticket-to-peeing-3-year-old). The 18-year veteran of the police force wrote a ticket for a $2,500 fine, which was later dropped.
The ticket for the 3-year-old urinating on the lawn was changed to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, which comes with a smaller fine.
The officer who was fired the for 3-year-old’s ticket said he was just doing his job, the man’s attorney said Wednesday. Qualls said he was responding to complaints that someone was urinating on vehicles when he came across Dillan dropping his pants on the family’s lawn, The Oklahoman reported (http://newsok.com/fired-piedmont-police-officer-was-only-doing-his-job-his-attorney-said./article/3730857).
Extra patrols had already been sent to the area where the Wardens lived after complaints of loud parties, beer bottles thrown into lawns, and cars being urinated on, Police Chief Alex Oblein confirmed to The Oklahoman.
The attorney for Ken Qualls said that the officer feels let down by the city and police force for failing to stand by him.
“He is disappointed with the city because he put his life on the line for the city every day,” attorney Jarrod Leaman said.
Piedmont Mayor Valerie Thomerson said City Hall fielded more than 200 emails from residents upset over the incident, leading to the officer being fired for giving the ticket to the 3-year-old.http://www.inquisitr.com/408419/officer-fired-for-ticket-to-3-year-old-who-urinated-on-lawn/

[Glass]

Marijuana edibles. Brings to mind that age old question, which came first, the munchies or the munchies.

You can imagine how the conversation went down. Officer Barbrady; wanna get high? Officer Stedenko; sure do man. whatsup? Officer BB; lets go raid one of them medical marijuana places. We can score some edibles, maybe even use our guns. Then hit the dunkin donuts on the way back. Officer Stedenko; cool plan man, can Danno come? he can book em while we play some darts.

As for the little kid. I'm wondering what part of the cars he was peeing on? The wheels or did he have a ladder with him? Maybe someone was just watering their dog. I mean the kid sure does look like a hard core party dude for sure.

[Glass]

Cops who stole and gobbled weed candy complain that security camera violated their privacy

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As brazen as the apparent behavior of officers that day is the argument being made by their lawyers. The three unidentified officers and their union are attempting to suppress the video’s use in ongoing disciplinary action against them by the city and police department.

In a lawsuit, the Santa Ana Police Officers Association and the three police officers argue that the video does not paint a fair version of events, and that it should not be allowed as evidence because the police had a reasonable expectation of privacy since they thought they had disabled all of the dispensary’s cameras.


“We believe that under California law, if you are being recorded, or eavesdropped on – which is the legal term for it – without your knowledge or consent, that it is illegal,” Corey Glave, the attorney representing the SAPOA and the three officers, told The Daily Beast. “Upon the direction of supervisors, all the cameras were disabled, so once those cameras were disabled, there was no expectation that there were any other cameras or that they were being recorded.”

There are signs all over Sky High saying that the premises is being recorded by video cameras, and not just clearly visible cameras.

Blacklisted news (http://www.blacklistednews.com/Cops_who_stole_and_gobbled_weed_candy_complain_tha t_security_camera_violated_their_privacy/45515/0/38/38/Y/M.html)

[ximmy]

I thought they only ate donuts.

[Serpo]

I thought they only ate donuts.

Well they will be soon ......................munchies............

[Jewboo]

...the video does not paint a fair version of events, and that it should not be allowed as evidence because the police had a reasonable expectation of privacy since they thought they had disabled all of the dispensary’s cameras...


:rolleyes: yeah...violates their Constitutional right to privacy