Davildinho
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Ignoring how messed up this is, how would you sign off using 40 officers to search a school for drugs. Surely a couple of officers and dogs could just walk round the classrooms.
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Georgia sheriff, deputies indicted after body searches of 900 high school students
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The area is a notorious speed trap.
SolarPowered
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Gotta get 'em while they're young amirite? They fucked up big time even for police.
Edit: I missed the part about the groping. There are no words to express how I feel right now.
Edit: I missed the part about the groping. There are no words to express how I feel right now.
The Faceless Master
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Saint Gregory
Member
We just had that story about the nurse in Colorado who was willing to get arrested to stop the police from taking blood without a warrant so no, this kind of stuff doesn't go down everywhere.
Morrigan Stark
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The Faceless Master
Member
strange how 75% of their targets missed school that day... coincidence?@?!
Lonewolf_92
Member
Exactly on point, we can blame the war on drugs for giving the police the authority to search for drugs, and the corrupt police for abusing that authority.
parrotbeak
Member
Well you can't fire all of them because then who would you call if you were a victim of a crime? Who could you call if someone say forced you up against a wall and sexually assaulted you?
Also only three cops were indicted and the sheriff clearly committed no crime because he didn't even personally touch any students.
No story here, just more liberal fake news to make all cops look bad.
Seriously I predict that the sheriff may step down but nothing else will happen. And he'll get another job somewhere else.
Also only three cops were indicted and the sheriff clearly committed no crime because he didn't even personally touch any students.
No story here, just more liberal fake news to make all cops look bad.
Seriously I predict that the sheriff may step down but nothing else will happen. And he'll get another job somewhere else.
Yeah, but man, teachers and administration have en loco parentis responsibilities for those kids. Cops show up with no warrant and want to pat down the entire student body (no pun intended), how do you just go, "Well, it feels weird but, ah'right."
Call your supervisor. Call the superintendent. Call the BoE Lawyer. Call the fucking press. Raise royal hell. And maybe they did, but it didn't come across like that, especially with the way the article puts it.
I just imagine my wife (works in education) telling the cop to put cuffs on her, because she wouldn't let it roll.
This isn't entirely correct, The city of Sylvester is 60% black,
but the county is 69% White, 28% Black. There appears to be only 1 high school in the county (1 middle school and 2 Elementary schools), so the schools are county wide (going by the naming system of "Worth County ___")
Not that this changes anything on the charges or what that Sheriff Department did. Frisking sucks, but this was a completely egregious overreach to frisk an entire school with no warrant, and "backtracking" over particular body parts is abhorrent. To do this looking for 12 people, why even consider including the other 888 students in this search??? Also, these are just "Users" and not Dealers???
Consider where the jury is pooled from. It'll be from the county.
These cops frisked 5% of their county on this one day.
That's fair. But at least the guy will hopefully be removed from office before that anyway. And there's also a civil suit going on.
Jmanunknown
Member
The whole department should be shutdown right now no questions asked but this is the type of bs Jeff Sessions likes.
A note on that: the last paragraph of the post article says the prosecutors formally sent the charges to the Governor of GA as he has standing to suspend the sheriff. Also the Peace Office and Standards board decertified the entire department.
900 illegal searches. The thought bouncing around in his empty skull that he'd be able to justify that in the press or court is almost as scary as anything else.
There should be state or federal intervention here, but it seems unlikely.
Also, how do you search 900 high school students and not find any drugs? If you'd searched my senior class of roughly the same size on any given day, you'd easily have found coke and weed at least. Seems like this is not a high school with a major drug problem.
Also, how do you search 900 high school students and not find any drugs? If you'd searched my senior class of roughly the same size on any given day, you'd easily have found coke and weed at least. Seems like this is not a high school with a major drug problem.
a lot of people tend to forget stories when they hear police were indicted as if that means they are getting punishment. wait until they are found guilty before celebrating.
Psychotext
Member
I'm assuming their interest was mostly in feeling up kids rather than actually finding anything.
boredandlazy
Member
Pardon those men!
They were after drugs but didn't bring in a drug-sniffing dog?
K.
and what if they found drugs on the floor, would they have the right to fingerprint everyone in the school?
The groping is enough, but the sheriff should at least lose his job for incompetency. The gropers should be arrested, and the school administration should be ashamed, if not ousted.
K.
and what if they found drugs on the floor, would they have the right to fingerprint everyone in the school?
The groping is enough, but the sheriff should at least lose his job for incompetency. The gropers should be arrested, and the school administration should be ashamed, if not ousted.
He said "about", hello...
Fulminator
Member
2017 and the war on drugs still exists
fuck that shit
fuck that shit
AntraxSuicide
Banned
Yeah, as a teacher, no cop is getting in my classroom without a warrant or a signed note from my department chair. No exceptions.
It's amazing they didn't even accidentally find drugs. Cleanest school ever.
Escape Goat
Member
I hope all 900 of their guardians go on the warpath over this.
Phrynobatrachus
Neo Member
college/university? I suppose you might have more leeway there, but it's not your property so I'd imagine they would just arrest you no?
regardless, this is an absurd violation of rights
Ricky Ricardo
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I'm trying to figure out if you're serious here
Everyone knows the margin of error on NeoGAF posts is plus or minus 35 points.
Permanently A
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Violence Jack
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They should be charged with child molestation if true, and sent to jail for a long while. Disgusting perverts.
Fucking this. Do this at my highschool when I was there you would have found a goldmine.
The Illiterati
Member
(I'm going to regret this, right?)
So yes, this was illegal on the part of the sheriff, and at least 9 out of 900 students were groped by some number of these forty cops.
But this wasn't 40 cops groping 900 kids. This wasn't 40 cops groping 9 kids. This was some unknown number of cops (probably a few at most) groping an unknown number of kids(probably more than 9). Some of those cops are complicit even if they didn't grope, for sure. Some other number were told they're serving a warrant and properly frisked students.
(Why on earth did I bother to write this.)
40 cops raped 900 kids. Fuck all cops.
So yes, this was illegal on the part of the sheriff, and at least 9 out of 900 students were groped by some number of these forty cops.
But this wasn't 40 cops groping 900 kids. This wasn't 40 cops groping 9 kids. This was some unknown number of cops (probably a few at most) groping an unknown number of kids(probably more than 9). Some of those cops are complicit even if they didn't grope, for sure. Some other number were told they're serving a warrant and properly frisked students.
(Why on earth did I bother to write this.)
40 cops raped 900 kids. Fuck all cops.
old manatee
Banned
That sounds like Iraq War II. A grand, unilateral campaign of shock and awe, but it didn't turn up the WMD's they were planning to use to justify it after the fact. You know these jackasses thought they were going to be on tv standing behind mountains of confiscated coke and heroin.
Cotton McKnight
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I suppose the Prosecutor wants to be really sure. I mean come on, politicians have to backing these cops to do this crazy stuff.
K think about who you choose to defend, when and why that is.
40 adult professionals agreed to go along with this.
right. because painting it as just 40 cops searching 900 students over a "target list" of "12 suspected drug users" and not even finding anything is so much better
unknownstranger
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Reminds me of something that happened at my high school once. Rumors were spreading that there was going to be a gang war at school on Friday. They interviewed a bunch of kids, and then on Wednesday they sent a note to everyone that there was a small possibility of it happening and anyone who didn't feel safe didn't have to go to school. I didn't go but a friend of mine did. They had security/policeman at every entrance to the school to search people. They ended up finding a couple people with guns and a couple people with knives. My friend said there was only like 25% of the people normally there.
The Illiterati
Member
I'm not trying to defend any of these people. I just can't stand lack of reading comprehension turning one story into another.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Send them to jail.
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Yup. The voice of reason rarely rises above the cries of the those wielding pitchforks and torches. Safer to stay out of their way entirely.
CadetMahoney
Member
This is some pure slime.
Cops will get clean away with it too.
Cops will get clean away with it too.