Watch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE]
Institute for Justice1 HN recommender · recommended in 1 month, 2022-2022
11.4M views · 4 years ago · news · dated
Institute for Justice footage of Nevada Highway Patrol troopers seizing the life savings of Stephen Lara, a retired Marine, during a traffic stop under civil forfeiture. The video documents the stop and the case that followed.
HN commenters cite it as a concrete example of police seizing cash from innocent people on flimsy pretexts.
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3 comments from Hacker News
> It'll def just be ignored, as it's on a high percentage of notes[1] for any transaction anyways [2]. Cops have used cocaine residue as "cause" to rob people of cash: ▶ this video
Recently I've found the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit that among other things fights to end civil asset forfeiture practices. They have so many heart-breaking stories on their youtube channel! For example, did you know that cops can seize all your cash during a traffic stop, regardless of you having receipts of withdrawal? See ▶ this video Or, government took all of a family’s money (incl. from bank accounts of two teenage daughters) based on mere suspicion that one family member committed a crime: link
>This is a garden-variety description of egotistical selfishness Yes, I selfishly didn't want to put a gun to the head of the individual who doesn't want to pay a tax to build a gigantic wall to keep out a former president's perceived boogey-man, the Mexicans. I'm selfish that way. You'd have fit in great on the slave patrols, calling those running the underground railroad egoistical law-breakers who violate "our shared morality and conception of fairness". Yes Yes we both have a clear picture of each other, don't we? I understand democracy very well. Two of three children vote to take the third child's marble, that's democracy. The majority whites vote to have minority blacks as their slave, that's democracy. Most Americans support legalizing pot? Nah fuck it we'll keep it illegal anyway; that's American democracy. >you are fundamentally an anarchist Wow, you sure found me out. What was it that finally betrayed me, my intense dislike of supporting the tasks that allegedly represent the majority like waterboarding foreign nationals, or my intense disdain for coercion? What if I were gay? Then I'd be double bad. I am an anarchist. Am I supposed to feel bad about that? I don't, it feels great to not have to justify in my head why I support a system that kills thousands of innocent people worldwide in the last couple decades, many of them innocent children whos last moments were concrete ripping apart and tumbling on top of their heads, smothering their family as the bombs colla