{"id":17672,"date":"2015-06-13T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17672"},"modified":"2015-06-13T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:24:08","slug":"wapo-drug-war-thuggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17672","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Drug war thuggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/06\/12\/drug-war-thuggery\/\">Drug war thuggery<\/a> by Radley Balko: A SWAT team goes to a medical marijuana dispensary and acts the fool and eats the pot candy.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ocweekly.com\/navelgazing\/2015\/06\/santa_ana_cops_caught_on_camera_eating_pot_candy_joking_about_kicking_amputee_patient_in_her_nub.php\">OC Weekly<\/a>:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Weekly has received footage from a recent marijuana dispensary raid that appears to show Santa Ana police officers eating pot candy and throwing darts after destroying\u2013or so they thought\u2013all the surveillance cameras inside the cannabis shop.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage shows an officer stuffing something into his mouth and handing something to another cop, who asks him \u201cWhat flavor?\u201d The officers then laugh. The footage is too grainy to be certain that the item that the officer picks up from the counter of the cannabis shop is in fact a pot edible, although the behavior of the officers suggests this is the case.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the footage: a female police officer joking that she wanted to kick Marla James\u2013a marijuana activist and wheelchair-bound amputee who was present during the raid\u2013in her \u201cnub\u201d . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Drug war thuggery by Radley Balko: A SWAT team goes to a medical marijuana dispensary and acts the fool and eats the pot candy. From the OC Weekly:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17673,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17672\/revisions\/17673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}