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kleinbl00  ·  1231 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 11, 2020

Friends of mine already received a $2m settlement from the corrupt police department. It's already abundantly clear that GR is an informant for at least one PD. This is also a county that attempted to pass a law limiting back yards to 5lbs of dogshit each, attempted to pass a law requiring cats to be on leashes and passed a law limiting weeds to 16" height and less than 25% of anyone's property. That law was vacated after nine months when the county attempted to crack down on someone who successfully argued that there was no distinction between "weed" and "native planting" and that Los Alamos National Laboratories had recently spent approximately $4m on "native plantings" that, by law, would have to be removed.

Besides which, the tusks were already confiscated. GR is back out again. And, by law of civil forfeiture, should GR be busted cooking meth in my childhood home, my childhood home becomes government property. No recourse.

For most of his life, my sister's ex-boyfriend enjoyed protection by the police. That was good for at least one murder and a good eight year run as a cocaine dealer. At some point the protection wasn't enough as they found his head in a ditch next to I-40 somewhere west of Amarillo.

Three police officers that I know of died in training accidents on the range when live ammo was used where blanks were called for. '91, '95, '97.

The town has already threatened to impound the house because my dad isn't fond of gardening. It had a lawn when I was growing up; now it has a forest.