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jct74
07-17-2014, 01:09 AM
really worth the watch if you have 24 minutes to spare. this needs to go viral, share it with others as much as you can.

previous thread here (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?429974-Riverside-cops-befriend-special-needs-students-then-trick-them-into-buying-pot&highlight=snodgrass)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8af0QPhJ22s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8af0QPhJ22s



This is the story of Jesse Snodgrass, a kid with Aspergers Syndrome who was entrapped by an undercover cop posing as a student at Jesse's high school. This is the story of how the war on drugs preys on the most vulnerable.

Click to donate to the Snodgrass's legal defense fund: http://bit.ly/1w1wnvt

Mani
07-17-2014, 01:53 AM
This is the rolling stones article. It gives pretty good detail, it's 5pgs long:


http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-entrapment-of-jesse-snodgrass-20140226


I guess the word entrapment doesn't exist anymore...

bunklocoempire
07-17-2014, 04:32 AM
Will share, thanks for posting.

Constitutional Paulicy
07-17-2014, 07:14 AM
I've often posted documentaries. People really should take the time to watch them. Unfortunately few actually do. And of those that do, they see no desire to reply to the threads after watching them. As interesting as the topics are, people seldom give responses and the thread quickly falls off into oblivion in a matter of a few hour

Thanks for posting this I actually enjoyed it.

roho76
07-17-2014, 08:17 AM
This is the rolling stones article. It gives pretty good detail, it's 5pgs long:


http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-entrapment-of-jesse-snodgrass-20140226


I guess the word entrapment doesn't exist anymore...

Technically, that's not entrapment. If the cop sold him drugs, that's entrapment.

roho76
07-17-2014, 08:18 AM
Just to add, I'm not pulling a Zippy here and licking the boots of the oppressor. It's still fucked up what this cop did. It's just not entrapment.

presence
07-17-2014, 09:02 AM
LAPD Deputy Chief Stephen Downing

"This is not about public safety –
the public is no safer, and the school grounds are no safer.
The more arrests you have,
the more funding you can get through federal grants and overtime."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-entrapment-of-jesse-snodgrass-20140226#ixzz37jpsISS3



Jesse learned one more valuable lesson:

"...the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, they taught me how to buy pot," he says, and breaks into a grin.

sam1952
07-17-2014, 10:21 AM
Watched it bump

HOLLYWOOD
07-17-2014, 10:36 AM
Entrapment and same ops as the FBI, preying on anyone or anything to get a headline bust, of course it's all to justify increase budgets, pensions, perks, etc. Isn't there laws against preying on the elderly, the hanicap, etc? You betcha, but they don't apply to lawless .gov. Again, notice the sensationalism and disinformation of the corporate media reporting. Right on queue, basically the propaganda arm the authoritarians.

That one kid,
"These gang unit cops, there was like 7 of them, busts in our house, they threw me up against the wall and started patting me down... but all I was wearing was my underwear. They pulled down my underwear and said, "Do you have any knives on you". :rolleyes:

dannno
07-17-2014, 10:49 AM
Technically, that's not entrapment. If the cop sold him drugs, that's entrapment.

That's like, your opinion, man..

Part of the definition of entrapment is that you convince somebody to commit a crime that they wouldn't normally commit. This kid had no idea where to get the cannabis at his school so he had to go find a legal medical cannabis dispensary which are advertised online and find a homeless person outside to sell it to him. He did it to help this guy out, he didn't make any money and the only reason he ever would have done it was because the police officer asked him to. I would say that is a crime he wouldn't normally commit.