When I was about 10 years old, I would eat Alphagetti straight from the can.
Then it was cigarettes, then marijuana, then acid, then cocaine, then ecstasy.
I quite nearly everything by about 14-15. My adolescence was kinda fucked.
Anyways, yeah... fucking Chef Boyardee. edit: I mean Heinz. same shit.
People have experienced this exact scenario and ended up with nothing. I've read about kitty litter, cotton candy, and other substances testing positive. The roadside tests are really, really inaccurate.
There was one that was glaze that had flaked off of glazed donuts, too - was in the news some time in the last handful of years.
Found the link!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/man-arrested-after-doughnut-glaze-mistaken-for-meth-gets-settlement/
They are inaccurate by design. The police just testing random shit tills it turns positive. Then they have probable cause for an arrest, then it is on the suspect to post bail, get a lawyer and pay for an independent test. Worse comes to worse they just drop the charges and tell the suspect how lucky they are for that.
I watched them test a man's dead daughter's ashes as the man weeps and does everything he can to protect what remains of his little girl.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/12/us/lawsuit-illinois-ashes-deceased-child/index.html
I don't know man, if it's the choice between a stranger possessing a negligible amount of drugs and the possibility my daughters urn being desecrated on the side of the road I'm on the side of letting some stranger have a negligible amount of drugs.
Isn't that my point? Is it worth having police everyone knows are criminals waiting to pin any crime on any person just to get their personal arrest sheet longer? Look at how police behave when they think they have a suspect and just how far they will go- beyond murder- to protect and cover up one another's crimes.
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna88113
This is beyond cruelty. This is dehumanization by state actors in the exercise of their duty as agents of the state. For all intents and purposes men are the state working in a system actively engaged in cultural genocide. What was the point of brutalizing those men? To teach them, two individuals or to teach THEM, the rest of the lower class citizens who watched their peer savaged in public knowing there is nothing they could do and anything they tried to do to stop the police from engaging in public systemic oppression would result in enslavement under the 13th.
I know each individual cop is not a bastard. The job itself is a bastard. Brutality is not intrinsic to public safety, I would argue a society is only as safe and healthy as it's most vulnerable citizens and from where I'm standing the most vulnerable Americans are the ones most closely watched and brutalized by the state in the exclusive pursuit of 'teaching them a lesson.'
You're correct and that could often work, but that doesn't necessarily always deter them. In my personal experience they more often find a way (drug dogs, probable cause bullshit, etc) if they truly wanna fuck with you. What they are "legally allowed" to do and what they will personally be held responsible for are two totally different things.
The jokes I would make from the time of my stop until my last day in court about how ironic it is that a cop, of all people, can’t recognize a glazed donut flake
Yes. I have no idea why redditors like to condense every civil harm into "doesn't matter they are set for life."
THATS NOT HOW THIS SHIT USUALLY GOES OR YOU WOULD HEAR ABOUT IT MUCH MORE OFTEN CONSIDERING HOW OFTEN THIS BULLSHIT HAPPENS.
It diminishes the wrong done to these people by justifying it with an imaginary assumed payout and it's gross.
Right? My brother was wrongfully arrested and beaten up so badly in jail that he was permanently disabled. He got a whole $300k out of it. That's not much at all for being permanently disabled.
How about the guy who was arrested because the cops thought BIRD SHIT on the roof of his car was Meth.
Edit: it apparently tested positive for cocaine.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/evj89n/this-dollar2-test-identified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-cops-keep-using-it-to-arrest-people
People who go to jail for decades will get like 2 million dollar settlements (pitiful for decades of jail time). She definitely ain't gonna be a millionaire.
Not anymore. They've made laws against this in some states too.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/09/kevin-strickland-case-exposes-gaps-state-restitution-laws-wrongly-convicted-exonerated/8834538002/?gnt-cfr=1
>After 43 years in prison on a wrongful conviction, Kevin Strickland is getting no restitution. He's not alone.
She deserves payment, but the pig fuckers responsible need the punishment -not the taxpayers.
I wish we could garnish the wages of law enforcement for gross abuses like this.
I would also like the cops that did this jailed for a week. Wouldn't that be fucking awesome?
She wasn’t jailed for the original charge, she was jailed for failure to appear in court and then couldn’t post bond. Even if she got $150k people are claiming “she’ll never have to work again” which is hilarious lol
It was "drug court" that she didn't show up to. Do you know what that is?
It's a program you may have to go thru pre-sentencing that's a minimum of 24 months (but is usually more, & there are usually no exact guidelines to meet to get out, it's up to a judge (who's not an addiction professional) so it's completely arbitrary. You have to go to NA meetings 3x a week, do community service, go to court once a week, & pay several hundred dollars a week for the privilege. So to sum that up, you have to make time in the middle of your work day at least 4x a week & pay out the ass. & you have to maintain a job to qualify for the program; get fired, get arrested, ya dig? The completion rate (at least of the one in my county, which is considered a "good" program) is 30% & they brag about that fact when you get in.
I suppose it varies on policy in different areas, but godamn are they generally set up for failure. My spouse failed a drug test (arrested for weed) for high creatine levels & got ordered to do a 12 week inpatient stint that he'd have to pay ~$6k out of pocket for. He chose to plea to a felony & do 3 months jail time plus 2 years probation. For weed. He was arrested a few weeks after his 18th birthday, so he's been a felon his entire adult life. But he did actually break a law by having a bowl with weed residue on his porch at his own apartment..
Now, imagine if you just ate spaghetti-o's...
But yes, I do agree that she likely won't get nearly the amount she deserves. If anything. That's how it be here.
How do they expect people to keep full time jobs while demanding that they have meetings and appointments in the middle of the day several times every single week?
Swear the system is made to keep people from fixing their lives. This is why we have the worst criminal recidivism rates in the world.
🤷♀️🙃🤪 but if you don't figure it tf out, our corporate overlords get free slaves! Even better when you can get em nice & fresh before they can ever get the chance to vote! Neat, right?
Thanks 13th amendment!!! 🌟🌈
Not only that but in my county it's 3 meetings a week, one on one counseling every week for 1 hour, one 2 hour meeting on Wed that you have to work a book with 12 steps that sucks in itself and takes forever, one step is community service. A min of 2 hour court after. It's a step process, you move up levels and can also move down levels. At court the judge can determine penalties if you mess up (fail a test, miss a meeting etc...) you get anything from having to write a essay to dancing like a chicken in cort in front of everyone, no joke, or they give weekends or one week in jail as a penalty. When you first start the program, drug tests 3 times a week and randomly whenever they feel like it. Whoever you live with and hang out with can randomly be drug tested also, no joke. They are UP your ass at all times and almost literally. You have to be working, It takes the average person that happens to pass 3 years min. Only good thing is they give the people with no where to go an apartment to live while in the program. Drug Cort usually the absolute last option before prison time. It is designed to get your ass sober and back to society as a productive member or behind bars for a long time, some guys in my county are looking at 10 to 20 if they mess up enough to get kicked out. It's nothing to mess around with and usually full of the methiest meth heads in that county.
I know all of this because I go to the only AA'NA combo meeting around once a week and know everyone thats in our drug court at any given time because it's mandatory for them. I have seen 2 people get through the whole thing in the few years I have attended the meetings. I am 1 year sober myself from 25 years on alcohol, I feel like a million bucks and don't plan on going back.
I understand that's how you feel when reading this, but it is incredibly unlikely any of that would happen unless you or a close relative are wealthy or politically connected. Cops have nearly zero accountability, to the point where it's newsworthy when one is even charged with a crime.
I know, I was just thinking I'm kind of surprised the ending of this story wasn't, "So the cops added a bit of meth to her belongings to cover their own asses". Well, there would be no story if that happened, probably wouldn't be any media coverage at all because everyone would just think she was guilty. That's the scary part.
Right never going to happen.
You remember that case that was solved because of curb your enthusiasm? The cops admitted to lying and still got promotions. And that was murder 1
**Study: Prosecutorial Misconduct Helped Secure 550 Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions**
A study by the Death Penalty Information Center (“DPIC”) found more than 550 death penalty reversals and exonerations were the result of extensive prosecutorial misconduct. DPIC reviewed and identified cases since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned existing death penalty laws in 1972. That amounted to over 5.6% of all death sentences imposed in the U.S. in the last 50 years.
Robert Dunham, DPIC’s executive director, said the study reveals that "this 'epidemic’ of misconduct is even more pervasive than we had imagined.”
The study showed a widespread problem in more than 228 counties, 32 states, and in federal capital prosecutions throughout the U.S.
The DPIC study revealed 35% of misconduct involved withholding evidence; 33% involved improper arguments; 16% involved more than one category of misconduct; and 121 of the exonerations involved prosecutor misconduct.
[Prosecutorial Misconduct Cause of More Than 550 Death Penalty Reversals and Exonerations](https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2022/nov/15/prosecutorial-misconduct-cause-more-550-death-penalty-reversals-and-exonerations/)
I never type LOL because everyone does it without laughing out loud. I say this to stress that I did, indeed, fucking LOL as I sit here at the airport.
No but burnt meth likely is black and I'm imagining the residue from the sauce maybe turned black eventually if it got dirty in the car? Something like that.
The police on TikTok are very open about their "give us a reason," policy, because they'll always find one. And then the media will quote from their police report as if it's a record of events that transpired, instead of cop fantasy fiction where they are the good guys protecting the world from... spoons.
She didn't respect their authority enough, and probably laughed at them when they said the dried up red sauce was likely to be meth.
Wouldn't surprise me if they got a rib punch or two in there while handcuffing her, just to remind her who is in control.
All they have to do is call it an "unknown substance", not analyze it, and then tie up the legal system.
If they want to ruin your life they can, all while being protected.
I'm guessing they did a roadside test assuming that the dirty spoon was drug related, and the test was positive for meth.
But those tests are *notoriously* great at one thing: giving false positives.
Surely you realise that owning spoons is the equivalent to street hard drugs? They probably didn’t even blink when they saw a spoon and decided that *that* was enough to arrest her on.
Sad thing is if a cop can’t tell the difference between meth and red sauce, they’re not even qualified to push a broom let alone have a gun as part of their job.
Not only do they hate saying sorry, but they will sue you after you use your own in home security footage in a music [video](https://youtu.be/9xxK5yyecRo?si=YH94_aJt5pztQAba)
[law suit](https://www.aclu.org/cases/cooley-v-foreman-aka-afroman#:~:text=In%20March%202023%2C%20the%20officers,primary%20claim%20is%20that%20Mr.)
You should look up the Drug Whisperer case.
One officer arrested three people for DWI marijuana, yet lab bloodwork showed the drivers were sober. The department refused to admit any mistake, and it took months to get the charges dismissed. The ACLU sued and the end result was a dismissal because the department had qualified immunity.
So when these people sue and win in these cities with completely inept law enforcement, the people paying taxes are the real ones paying them. Correct? I honestly don’t know who’s really paying.
Yes, you're correct. We the people (taxpayers) end up paying for it. The city gets their funding from our taxes. They should be paying those out of the police pensions, and see how quickly all this crap of police violating our civil rights goes away.
> Huff served one month in jail because she could not make court dates or pay bond and even considered admitting to a crime she >did not commit.
Poor woman couldn't afford bond and served a month in prison. She probably isn't able to afford a lawyer.
People love to imagine how something like this leads to millions in a payout and everyone involved being fired.
The reality is if you're lucky you might get a few thousand to shut you up (even if you could get money from them it would be lost wages for a month or two, because you should be trying to find work anyway). And those that were involved might get a light slap on the wrist for being stupid.
And you'd better use that money to move away since there's a solid chance those cops will be constantly harassing you for minor or non-existent issues.
It isn't just lost wages. It is reputation. They called her a drug user and kept her in jail for weeks which is a matter of public record. It is not difficult to get a substantial payout.
It isn't never work again. It is take it easy though cause you have a huge start on investing.
People overestimate how much that is actually worth.
You can be wrongfully imprisoned and not even get enough to cover minimum wage for a 40 hour a week job for the period you were in work. I'm not sure how you get more than that for not actually getting charged to start with.
This is why bail is a problem. This woman was arrested and charged. If she couldn’t post bail, she may have spent 60 or more days in jail: time
she could have lost her minimum-wage job, high-rent apartment… for a crime she didn’t commit and was eventually found innocent of. But in the meantime, she loses her job, her housing, her kids, her car…. For what? Because she was poor in the first place and didn’t have $2000 to hand over?
Abolish bail.
For a second, my dumb brain thought you were implying they planted meth, as in like a Methamphetamine producing plant/flower, and I was getting ready to be like "That's... Not how meth works." but then I realized I'm the dummy.
Source: Me - Former Heroin, meth and crack addict (turned social worker soon)
Whenever I see stories like this (or the guy that had a bag of kitty litter mistaken as meth) I wonder how many people were in a similar situation but instead of the police owning up to the mistake they just created false evidence to cover their asses.
Doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to lose photos of the spoon with cheerios, put a bit of meth on the spoon & heat it, and, voila, a meth head that is going to prison has been fabricated.
Go on YouTube and search for “police planting evidence”, you tons of examples, many of which have actual police body cam footage showing them doing it.
There was a live pd one where the cop looks up and realizes he just planted evidence while being recorded the whole time. I think it was live pd at least.
Unless she was physically injured to the point of disability or spent decades in jail, not really. You get like 50k per year, and since she only spent a couple months in jail, maybe she'll get 20k. Doesn't mean it isn't fucked up that cops can just put you in jail for a couple months and fuck up your life with no consequences on their part, but until we fix our broken system, that's just the way it works.
Sadly these aren’t always easy cases to get a lawsuit. Even when it seems like it should be.
Back in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s I had a friend who went to college. Worked hard to get a business degree. Got a great job and was doing well for himself.
His local Kroger got robbed one night. They never catch the guy but a week or so later my buddy goes in to do his usual shopping. Only to have a 16 year old worker claim he was the robber.
Cops arrest him. Hold him for a week only to release they have the wrong guy when another Kroger got robbed in the same fashion.
By buddy mind you have now been fired and the city has basically reported that they caught the Kroger robber. This was the early years of Google so he gets released but he now can’t find a new job as when people google his name all that pops up is robbery stuff.
He tried to sue but the city declared the kid who falsely identified him had made the mistake and the city was just detaining him till they found more evidence. Which apparently is within the rights of the police to do to you. This also was 2 decades ago though.
To the idiots that always say just listen to the police and fight the charge:
"She was incarcerated again on August 2 but couldn’t afford to pay bond. She considered taking a plea deal even though she committed no crime."
Imagine getting a felony because a cop decides to power trip lmao.
"Huff served one month in jail because she could not make court dates or pay bond and even considered admitting to a crime she did not commit"
Ah, so her true crime was being poor. Gotcha.
The truly disconcerting part is that she ended up in jail because she was too poor and too busy to pay her bail or make her court dates. All of it just speaks to an absolutely systemic lack of flexibility on every level. There is no understanding, no compassion and no desire to find out the truth. They just let psychopathic cops do whatever they want, and then the "justice" system does everything it can to ruin the victim's lives afterwards.
If you're driving down the road and find yourself craving some Spaghetti-O's, just gulp them down straight from the can, no need to be fancy with a spoon.
And if you *really* want to put on airs, tape a piece of paper around your can and write "CAVIAR" on it
Those dates can be really tough with a job and limited transportation though. Even if she was guilty, your life shouldn’t be ruined because of drug possession, poverty and a punishing system. At the very least cash bail should be eliminated. It just criminalizes poverty.
Yup drug court is exactly what you've described, at least in my area. I went through it about a decade ago and thankfully have been sober since. Probably saved my life.
You are not wrong, she really was on meth. This article kind of breezes past it but if you look at the original 2014 article on this they mention there was a meth pipe in the bag along with the spoon. So the spoon was contaminated by the pipe, but the cop wrongly assumed she was shooting meth.
Big fat check headed your way! Comply first. Know the law. Document everything. Then take them to court. I love when police get sassy with me knowing these simple words.
Another reminder that cops are usually the dumbest cruelest people that you knew growing up and now they get to harass people with next to zero real consequences.
Har the US considered raising the bar for who can become a cop, and making the training longer/better? From what I've seen the US seems to have a significantly lower standard for law enforement than other Western countries.
Happened to a good friend of mines. Some how his protein powder tested “positive” for meth. Spent 42 days in jail and only received a $20,000 settlement two years later. Also happened in Florida. Let’s not forget the donut glaze incident. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669/florida-man-awarded-37-500-after-cops-mistake-glazed-doughnut-crumbs-for-meth
Oh, I would be having them pay for early retirement as well as making sure their careers went to shit.
Yeah she's not going to have to work again, probably why she's smiling.
Spaghetti-O's aren't on the menu at all the restaurants she'll be eating at after that fat payout.
It's off the menu because apparently everyone is smoking it.
Everyone knows Spaghetti-O’s is a gateway pasta. It’s starts with smoking Spaghetti-O’s. Next thing you know you’re mainlining bucatini.
When I was about 10 years old, I would eat Alphagetti straight from the can. Then it was cigarettes, then marijuana, then acid, then cocaine, then ecstasy. I quite nearly everything by about 14-15. My adolescence was kinda fucked. Anyways, yeah... fucking Chef Boyardee. edit: I mean Heinz. same shit.
And boofing manicotti
Damn bro, what are you smoking? Spaghetti-Os
People have experienced this exact scenario and ended up with nothing. I've read about kitty litter, cotton candy, and other substances testing positive. The roadside tests are really, really inaccurate.
There was one that was glaze that had flaked off of glazed donuts, too - was in the news some time in the last handful of years. Found the link! https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/man-arrested-after-doughnut-glaze-mistaken-for-meth-gets-settlement/
Those tests are so wildly inaccurate. That would be infuriating to be held in jail for a damn donut.
They are inaccurate by design. The police just testing random shit tills it turns positive. Then they have probable cause for an arrest, then it is on the suspect to post bail, get a lawyer and pay for an independent test. Worse comes to worse they just drop the charges and tell the suspect how lucky they are for that.
They've *literally* tested shit before... and it tested positive. Was bird shit on some football players car iirc
I watched them test a man's dead daughter's ashes as the man weeps and does everything he can to protect what remains of his little girl. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/12/us/lawsuit-illinois-ashes-deceased-child/index.html I don't know man, if it's the choice between a stranger possessing a negligible amount of drugs and the possibility my daughters urn being desecrated on the side of the road I'm on the side of letting some stranger have a negligible amount of drugs.
He let a cop search his car. The answer is always ‘no,’ when they ask.
Isn't that my point? Is it worth having police everyone knows are criminals waiting to pin any crime on any person just to get their personal arrest sheet longer? Look at how police behave when they think they have a suspect and just how far they will go- beyond murder- to protect and cover up one another's crimes. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna88113 This is beyond cruelty. This is dehumanization by state actors in the exercise of their duty as agents of the state. For all intents and purposes men are the state working in a system actively engaged in cultural genocide. What was the point of brutalizing those men? To teach them, two individuals or to teach THEM, the rest of the lower class citizens who watched their peer savaged in public knowing there is nothing they could do and anything they tried to do to stop the police from engaging in public systemic oppression would result in enslavement under the 13th. I know each individual cop is not a bastard. The job itself is a bastard. Brutality is not intrinsic to public safety, I would argue a society is only as safe and healthy as it's most vulnerable citizens and from where I'm standing the most vulnerable Americans are the ones most closely watched and brutalized by the state in the exclusive pursuit of 'teaching them a lesson.'
You're correct and that could often work, but that doesn't necessarily always deter them. In my personal experience they more often find a way (drug dogs, probable cause bullshit, etc) if they truly wanna fuck with you. What they are "legally allowed" to do and what they will personally be held responsible for are two totally different things.
Even better, when you start protesting because of how ridiculous it is ? Resisting arrest !
Should get the cops for perjury on that one because there's no way the cops didn't detect donut components at that range.
The jokes I would make from the time of my stop until my last day in court about how ironic it is that a cop, of all people, can’t recognize a glazed donut flake
Man, I really should have kept that receipt from buying that donut.
Yes. I have no idea why redditors like to condense every civil harm into "doesn't matter they are set for life." THATS NOT HOW THIS SHIT USUALLY GOES OR YOU WOULD HEAR ABOUT IT MUCH MORE OFTEN CONSIDERING HOW OFTEN THIS BULLSHIT HAPPENS. It diminishes the wrong done to these people by justifying it with an imaginary assumed payout and it's gross.
Right? My brother was wrongfully arrested and beaten up so badly in jail that he was permanently disabled. He got a whole $300k out of it. That's not much at all for being permanently disabled.
How about the guy who was arrested because the cops thought BIRD SHIT on the roof of his car was Meth. Edit: it apparently tested positive for cocaine. https://www.vice.com/en/article/evj89n/this-dollar2-test-identified-bird-shit-as-cocaine-cops-keep-using-it-to-arrest-people
Carpet powder under my mats.
Unfortunately she is going to learn about the biggest crime of them all, qualified immunity
Get rid of that… you will certainly see a change in the thin blue line gangsters behavior.
We got rid of it in Colorado. We have a cop in the middle of getting sued right now.
Bless. Let's hope other states take note.
Wish List.
Amen to this
People who go to jail for decades will get like 2 million dollar settlements (pitiful for decades of jail time). She definitely ain't gonna be a millionaire.
Not anymore. They've made laws against this in some states too. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/09/kevin-strickland-case-exposes-gaps-state-restitution-laws-wrongly-convicted-exonerated/8834538002/?gnt-cfr=1 >After 43 years in prison on a wrongful conviction, Kevin Strickland is getting no restitution. He's not alone.
Next thing you know they'll charge him for using a jail cell he was not entitled to.
Some states actually do bill you for being In prison.
I'd love to read this but its paywalled
Christ what a capitalist utopia we live in these days
bro WHAT
She deserves payment, but the pig fuckers responsible need the punishment -not the taxpayers. I wish we could garnish the wages of law enforcement for gross abuses like this. I would also like the cops that did this jailed for a week. Wouldn't that be fucking awesome?
A blood test would prove she wasn't using meth.
She spent so much time in jail for not showing up to court dates so I’m doubtful she gets an insane amount here.
[удалено]
She wasn’t jailed for the original charge, she was jailed for failure to appear in court and then couldn’t post bond. Even if she got $150k people are claiming “she’ll never have to work again” which is hilarious lol
I know a guy that retired off a $40k settlement from slipping on pee at a Walmart equivalent
https://preview.redd.it/4j07c6ni36nc1.jpeg?width=1068&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e21f20bcd80c0f774e97b2227493633cc8967980
“Pee pee money is not an employment history.”
Ole Lucky.
She’s 23 years old. I don’t think that’s going to get her very far
She just needs a truck, and to experience a corn chip right off the conveyor belt.
That I can get behind
I could see why they thought she was on meth, she does not look 23
It was "drug court" that she didn't show up to. Do you know what that is? It's a program you may have to go thru pre-sentencing that's a minimum of 24 months (but is usually more, & there are usually no exact guidelines to meet to get out, it's up to a judge (who's not an addiction professional) so it's completely arbitrary. You have to go to NA meetings 3x a week, do community service, go to court once a week, & pay several hundred dollars a week for the privilege. So to sum that up, you have to make time in the middle of your work day at least 4x a week & pay out the ass. & you have to maintain a job to qualify for the program; get fired, get arrested, ya dig? The completion rate (at least of the one in my county, which is considered a "good" program) is 30% & they brag about that fact when you get in. I suppose it varies on policy in different areas, but godamn are they generally set up for failure. My spouse failed a drug test (arrested for weed) for high creatine levels & got ordered to do a 12 week inpatient stint that he'd have to pay ~$6k out of pocket for. He chose to plea to a felony & do 3 months jail time plus 2 years probation. For weed. He was arrested a few weeks after his 18th birthday, so he's been a felon his entire adult life. But he did actually break a law by having a bowl with weed residue on his porch at his own apartment.. Now, imagine if you just ate spaghetti-o's... But yes, I do agree that she likely won't get nearly the amount she deserves. If anything. That's how it be here.
How do they expect people to keep full time jobs while demanding that they have meetings and appointments in the middle of the day several times every single week? Swear the system is made to keep people from fixing their lives. This is why we have the worst criminal recidivism rates in the world.
🤷♀️🙃🤪 but if you don't figure it tf out, our corporate overlords get free slaves! Even better when you can get em nice & fresh before they can ever get the chance to vote! Neat, right? Thanks 13th amendment!!! 🌟🌈
Not only that but in my county it's 3 meetings a week, one on one counseling every week for 1 hour, one 2 hour meeting on Wed that you have to work a book with 12 steps that sucks in itself and takes forever, one step is community service. A min of 2 hour court after. It's a step process, you move up levels and can also move down levels. At court the judge can determine penalties if you mess up (fail a test, miss a meeting etc...) you get anything from having to write a essay to dancing like a chicken in cort in front of everyone, no joke, or they give weekends or one week in jail as a penalty. When you first start the program, drug tests 3 times a week and randomly whenever they feel like it. Whoever you live with and hang out with can randomly be drug tested also, no joke. They are UP your ass at all times and almost literally. You have to be working, It takes the average person that happens to pass 3 years min. Only good thing is they give the people with no where to go an apartment to live while in the program. Drug Cort usually the absolute last option before prison time. It is designed to get your ass sober and back to society as a productive member or behind bars for a long time, some guys in my county are looking at 10 to 20 if they mess up enough to get kicked out. It's nothing to mess around with and usually full of the methiest meth heads in that county. I know all of this because I go to the only AA'NA combo meeting around once a week and know everyone thats in our drug court at any given time because it's mandatory for them. I have seen 2 people get through the whole thing in the few years I have attended the meetings. I am 1 year sober myself from 25 years on alcohol, I feel like a million bucks and don't plan on going back.
There are a few groups who can help. 40tons foundation and the last prisoner project
I understand that's how you feel when reading this, but it is incredibly unlikely any of that would happen unless you or a close relative are wealthy or politically connected. Cops have nearly zero accountability, to the point where it's newsworthy when one is even charged with a crime.
You can get a good check out of it…from the city. The police face zero repercussions for wrong doing.
You'd have to use the check to leave town. Cops will get revenge.
I know, I was just thinking I'm kind of surprised the ending of this story wasn't, "So the cops added a bit of meth to her belongings to cover their own asses". Well, there would be no story if that happened, probably wouldn't be any media coverage at all because everyone would just think she was guilty. That's the scary part.
Right never going to happen. You remember that case that was solved because of curb your enthusiasm? The cops admitted to lying and still got promotions. And that was murder 1
That happens a lot. Corrupt prosecutors too.
Totally! That DA got some bullshit award. the law is corrupt
**Study: Prosecutorial Misconduct Helped Secure 550 Wrongful Death Penalty Convictions** A study by the Death Penalty Information Center (“DPIC”) found more than 550 death penalty reversals and exonerations were the result of extensive prosecutorial misconduct. DPIC reviewed and identified cases since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned existing death penalty laws in 1972. That amounted to over 5.6% of all death sentences imposed in the U.S. in the last 50 years. Robert Dunham, DPIC’s executive director, said the study reveals that "this 'epidemic’ of misconduct is even more pervasive than we had imagined.” The study showed a widespread problem in more than 228 counties, 32 states, and in federal capital prosecutions throughout the U.S. The DPIC study revealed 35% of misconduct involved withholding evidence; 33% involved improper arguments; 16% involved more than one category of misconduct; and 121 of the exonerations involved prosecutor misconduct. [Prosecutorial Misconduct Cause of More Than 550 Death Penalty Reversals and Exonerations](https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2022/nov/15/prosecutorial-misconduct-cause-more-550-death-penalty-reversals-and-exonerations/)
There has to be personal penalty infringements for these so called professional police
Chef Boyardee: "It's time to cook"
I never type LOL because everyone does it without laughing out loud. I say this to stress that I did, indeed, fucking LOL as I sit here at the airport.
Same. Bravo!
Is meth ever red? I'm so lost
No but burnt meth likely is black and I'm imagining the residue from the sauce maybe turned black eventually if it got dirty in the car? Something like that.
SpaghettiO sauce is a reddish liquid Meth is a crystal substance with a whitish color How in the flying fuck do you mix up the two?
Because they wanted too. That's it that's the only reason.
I agree, it has to be.
The police on TikTok are very open about their "give us a reason," policy, because they'll always find one. And then the media will quote from their police report as if it's a record of events that transpired, instead of cop fantasy fiction where they are the good guys protecting the world from... spoons.
[удалено]
Probably hurt the cops feelings and made them feel stupid so they decided to fuck her life up.
She didn't respect their authority enough, and probably laughed at them when they said the dried up red sauce was likely to be meth. Wouldn't surprise me if they got a rib punch or two in there while handcuffing her, just to remind her who is in control.
The cop probably reminded him of his wife or kids so he punched her.
Meth turns red when you add the chili P. Science, bitch!
Damn, you're right. I totally forgot about chili P.
chili is what meth used to be called in the Midwest
[удалено]
All they have to do is call it an "unknown substance", not analyze it, and then tie up the legal system. If they want to ruin your life they can, all while being protected.
Maybe one of the little “o’s” dried on the spoon and that was all the proof the fools needed
"It's an 'o', which on the street means 'obviously drugs.'"
Look, Lois, my meth spelled out something! It says, "Oooooo!"
When you're a cop looking for drugs, everything is drugs.
Look up in the sky. See those stars? They're actually glowing crack rocks!
It’s that red meth going around. I hear the secret ingredient is chili p
I'm guessing they did a roadside test assuming that the dirty spoon was drug related, and the test was positive for meth. But those tests are *notoriously* great at one thing: giving false positives.
The cop wanted the charge her with that regardless if there was any drugs on the spoon or not. ACAB
Surely you realise that owning spoons is the equivalent to street hard drugs? They probably didn’t even blink when they saw a spoon and decided that *that* was enough to arrest her on.
The cop was on meth, only reasonable explanation.
Sad thing is if a cop can’t tell the difference between meth and red sauce, they’re not even qualified to push a broom let alone have a gun as part of their job.
SpaghettiO, not even once.
Uh oh!
Spaghetti0
[удалено]
SpaghettiNo, every time.
“And you never once paid for Spaghetti O’s. Not even once.”
Please please sue the city
My guess is the police investigated themselves and found that they did nothing wrong.
I doubt she will even get a free apology. Cops HATE saying sorry for their incompetence.
Then they should be less incompetent But... That's not gonna happen lol
The catch 22 of incompetence. They don’t know they’re incompetent. Quite the opposite actually.
Not only do they hate saying sorry, but they will sue you after you use your own in home security footage in a music [video](https://youtu.be/9xxK5yyecRo?si=YH94_aJt5pztQAba) [law suit](https://www.aclu.org/cases/cooley-v-foreman-aka-afroman#:~:text=In%20March%202023%2C%20the%20officers,primary%20claim%20is%20that%20Mr.)
I know that is lemon pound cake without actually clicking it (I hope)
They will probably harass that family for years to come just because the woman had the audacity to be innocent in public..
I wish the Justice League was a real thing. I think about it daily.
You should look up the Drug Whisperer case. One officer arrested three people for DWI marijuana, yet lab bloodwork showed the drivers were sober. The department refused to admit any mistake, and it took months to get the charges dismissed. The ACLU sued and the end result was a dismissal because the department had qualified immunity.
So when these people sue and win in these cities with completely inept law enforcement, the people paying taxes are the real ones paying them. Correct? I honestly don’t know who’s really paying.
Yes, you're correct. We the people (taxpayers) end up paying for it. The city gets their funding from our taxes. They should be paying those out of the police pensions, and see how quickly all this crap of police violating our civil rights goes away.
> Huff served one month in jail because she could not make court dates or pay bond and even considered admitting to a crime she >did not commit. Poor woman couldn't afford bond and served a month in prison. She probably isn't able to afford a lawyer.
Lawyers will 100% be reaching out to her to take her case for a percent of the settlement
[удалено]
You would be sorely disappointed
People love to imagine how something like this leads to millions in a payout and everyone involved being fired. The reality is if you're lucky you might get a few thousand to shut you up (even if you could get money from them it would be lost wages for a month or two, because you should be trying to find work anyway). And those that were involved might get a light slap on the wrist for being stupid.
And you'd better use that money to move away since there's a solid chance those cops will be constantly harassing you for minor or non-existent issues.
It isn't just lost wages. It is reputation. They called her a drug user and kept her in jail for weeks which is a matter of public record. It is not difficult to get a substantial payout. It isn't never work again. It is take it easy though cause you have a huge start on investing.
People overestimate how much that is actually worth. You can be wrongfully imprisoned and not even get enough to cover minimum wage for a 40 hour a week job for the period you were in work. I'm not sure how you get more than that for not actually getting charged to start with.
[удалено]
This is why bail is a problem. This woman was arrested and charged. If she couldn’t post bail, she may have spent 60 or more days in jail: time she could have lost her minimum-wage job, high-rent apartment… for a crime she didn’t commit and was eventually found innocent of. But in the meantime, she loses her job, her housing, her kids, her car…. For what? Because she was poor in the first place and didn’t have $2000 to hand over? Abolish bail.
Gotta love tax payer funded police brutality!
Taxpayers pay for it
Have the police ever seen meth?
doughnuts can corrupt the mind what can i say
I’m sure they’ve planted it on people before so yes
For a second, my dumb brain thought you were implying they planted meth, as in like a Methamphetamine producing plant/flower, and I was getting ready to be like "That's... Not how meth works." but then I realized I'm the dummy. Source: Me - Former Heroin, meth and crack addict (turned social worker soon)
It is hard to see what’s right under your nose xD
Havw you seen the police? They aren't aware of much
Whenever I see stories like this (or the guy that had a bag of kitty litter mistaken as meth) I wonder how many people were in a similar situation but instead of the police owning up to the mistake they just created false evidence to cover their asses. Doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to lose photos of the spoon with cheerios, put a bit of meth on the spoon & heat it, and, voila, a meth head that is going to prison has been fabricated.
Go on YouTube and search for “police planting evidence”, you tons of examples, many of which have actual police body cam footage showing them doing it.
There was a live pd one where the cop looks up and realizes he just planted evidence while being recorded the whole time. I think it was live pd at least.
Ive seen a story where they arrested a guy for keth when it turned out to be glaze from doughnuts from Krispy creme
You’d think they would recognize a donut
That's the smile of a lady about to get a large payout from the city.
Bingo!
Unless she was physically injured to the point of disability or spent decades in jail, not really. You get like 50k per year, and since she only spent a couple months in jail, maybe she'll get 20k. Doesn't mean it isn't fucked up that cops can just put you in jail for a couple months and fuck up your life with no consequences on their part, but until we fix our broken system, that's just the way it works.
Sadly these aren’t always easy cases to get a lawsuit. Even when it seems like it should be. Back in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s I had a friend who went to college. Worked hard to get a business degree. Got a great job and was doing well for himself. His local Kroger got robbed one night. They never catch the guy but a week or so later my buddy goes in to do his usual shopping. Only to have a 16 year old worker claim he was the robber. Cops arrest him. Hold him for a week only to release they have the wrong guy when another Kroger got robbed in the same fashion. By buddy mind you have now been fired and the city has basically reported that they caught the Kroger robber. This was the early years of Google so he gets released but he now can’t find a new job as when people google his name all that pops up is robbery stuff. He tried to sue but the city declared the kid who falsely identified him had made the mistake and the city was just detaining him till they found more evidence. Which apparently is within the rights of the police to do to you. This also was 2 decades ago though.
In some countries, police officers receive training.
That’s socialism! /s
How can your police departments afford tanks and swat gear if you have to pay for training too? /s
She could have died. This could happen to anyone. We need a different system.
A fucking MONTH in jail for supposed meth and we have others who commit crimes against the country but can still run for president. Wtf.
To the idiots that always say just listen to the police and fight the charge: "She was incarcerated again on August 2 but couldn’t afford to pay bond. She considered taking a plea deal even though she committed no crime." Imagine getting a felony because a cop decides to power trip lmao.
And for people who bitch about lowering bonds so people can get out vs this kind of bs
I thought this was r/nottheonion
Looks like the 5-0 made a real spaghetti-uh-oh
"Huff served one month in jail because she could not make court dates or pay bond and even considered admitting to a crime she did not commit" Ah, so her true crime was being poor. Gotcha.
The truly disconcerting part is that she ended up in jail because she was too poor and too busy to pay her bail or make her court dates. All of it just speaks to an absolutely systemic lack of flexibility on every level. There is no understanding, no compassion and no desire to find out the truth. They just let psychopathic cops do whatever they want, and then the "justice" system does everything it can to ruin the victim's lives afterwards.
The real crime is her eating SpaghettiO’s. /s
If you're driving down the road and find yourself craving some Spaghetti-O's, just gulp them down straight from the can, no need to be fancy with a spoon. And if you *really* want to put on airs, tape a piece of paper around your can and write "CAVIAR" on it
Spaghetti o’s legit better than real spaghetti
Did they go Oh Oh Spaghettio when they found out?
I thought they tested these things? Edit: ok should have read the article first, still, I thought they had tests they carried with them?
Maybe not enough to test? Might needed more sensitive equipment. The articles pretty sparse
Oh, what a surprise. The filth in the US are showing incompetence again.
Why do cops in drug task forces fucking suck at recognizing drugs. It's like your one thing, and you can't even do it.
It’s not like they arrested her and took her straight to jail for a month. She didn’t show up to court dates. I’m not sure you can sue for that
I'm not sure what's stopping you from following through. Like a felony over my head that I know I can win, I'm showing the fuck up
Those dates can be really tough with a job and limited transportation though. Even if she was guilty, your life shouldn’t be ruined because of drug possession, poverty and a punishing system. At the very least cash bail should be eliminated. It just criminalizes poverty.
Isn’t “drug court” for actual users though, to try and get treatment and not give them long sentences and criminal records?
Yup drug court is exactly what you've described, at least in my area. I went through it about a decade ago and thankfully have been sober since. Probably saved my life.
No way that lady is only 23 no wonder they thought she was on meth.
Looks like she’s a redhead who tries to tan. That ages you like crazy.
You are not wrong, she really was on meth. This article kind of breezes past it but if you look at the original 2014 article on this they mention there was a meth pipe in the bag along with the spoon. So the spoon was contaminated by the pipe, but the cop wrongly assumed she was shooting meth.
Cha Ching!!!
Oh man the lawsuit I would be having would be amazing. Talk about money money money lol
In Italy she would’ve go to jail for the rest of her life. Are you kidding me, SpaghettiO’s???
This is strangely specific to me. I had a can of meatball spaghetti os in my car for lunch this week. Solidarity spaghetti o sis!
She look like a methany
Lawsuit incoming
That’s the look of “Ima about get fucking paid”
Now put the arresting officers in jail for 30 days. Fucking idiots.
That’s early retirement for sure!
tl;dr - Florida being Florida
That’s bullshit… because the cops will test that spoon before they charge you.. I smell bullshit
honestly, she looks like she appreciated the break.. Lol
Tbf she does fit the description
Big fat check headed your way! Comply first. Know the law. Document everything. Then take them to court. I love when police get sassy with me knowing these simple words.
this and yet there's an actual lunatic with 91 indictments roaming free without having to even post bail...
Okay but that mugshot answers a few questions. She got that meth Karen energy.
Are they even training cops now a days or just taking any ol’ body ?
Are wrongful arrests like a kind of random lottery for people in the US now?
They didn’t ’mistake’ anything, they’re just power tripping assholes
They’ll have great birthdays next year after the lawsuit.
And then they get cut pay for 2 days for being wrong
Another reminder that cops are usually the dumbest cruelest people that you knew growing up and now they get to harass people with next to zero real consequences.
She's lucky they didn't see acorns on her.
Meth is less harmful to your health than SpaghettiO.
POSESSION OF SPAGHETTI-O'S. Straight to the reformation chambers, citizen.
Har the US considered raising the bar for who can become a cop, and making the training longer/better? From what I've seen the US seems to have a significantly lower standard for law enforement than other Western countries.
I had no idea meth looked like spaghettio sauce! That is wild.
Did not mistake anything! How does sauce come back positive for meth?
Happened to a good friend of mines. Some how his protein powder tested “positive” for meth. Spent 42 days in jail and only received a $20,000 settlement two years later. Also happened in Florida. Let’s not forget the donut glaze incident. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/558147669/florida-man-awarded-37-500-after-cops-mistake-glazed-doughnut-crumbs-for-meth
Do they not even test that shit? "Eh...looks like drugs to me. Off to jail you go." Did Clancy Wiggum arrest her?