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getagrip_already

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1. In this case, the judge was right to throw out the video evidence......
Sat Jan 4, 2020, 12:27 PM
Jan 2020

They illegally obtained a search warrant to put cameras in a location where private citizens who weren't under any individual suspicion, had every right to an expectation of privacy. They ran that operation for 9 months in a business that served literally thousands of customers. Yet they only made ~100 arrests. That tells you they took a lot of videos of naked people (some women went to the studios not knowing there was a side business) where no crimes were committed.

This is no different then putting video surveillance in hotel rooms because there might at some point be an illegal act committed.

The department should have its ass sued off.

Yes, I get that actual crimes were committed. So what? The end does not justify the means. There was no underage worker to protect. There was no trafficking uncovered. If anything besides sex acts was occurring, there were no charges for it.

This was about authoritarian over reach and trampled civil liberties. It was about prosecutors making arrests for tv, not protecting women,

Thug piggery at it's worst.

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