WaPo: Police told a man a container in his car tested positive for drugs. It was his daughter’s ashes.

WaPo: Police told a man a container in his car tested positive for drugs. It was his daughter’s ashes. By Andrea Salcedo (“Dartavius Barnes sat handcuffed inside a squad car in Springfield, Ill., looking confused as police told him they’d found a container in the center console of his car that tested positive for meth or ecstasy. … Barnes has filed a federal lawsuit alleging officers with the Springfield Police Department unlawfully took the sealed urn containing his daughter’s remains, opened it without his consent, and spilled some of the ashes while testing for drugs. Roughly 47 minutes of body-camera footage of the encounter was published by WICS and WRSP last week.”)

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