Watch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE]
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as a concrete example of police seizing cash from innocent people on flimsy pretexts.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends iliketrains · 2022-02 · on “Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts”
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]
Cites notch656a · 2022-01 · on “Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations”
>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
Cites yellowapple · 2022-09 · on “Increase: Banking API”
> 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]