“Like Nazi Germany”: Federal Police Officer, After Cops Loot His Car

May, 2014, Nashville TN. Ronnie was driving back from his grandfather’s funeral in Virginia when he and his wife, Lisa, found themselves at the mercy of crooked cops.

They saw an officer from the 23rd Judicial District Drug Task Force as they drove westbound down I-40, and Ronnie predicted that they were about to be pulled over.

“I told her we are going to get pulled over,” Ronnie said to NewsChannel 5.

He was correct. They were pulled over, and promptly separated.

“What made you think he was going to stop you?” News Channel 5 Investigates asked him.

“Because we had out-of-state license plates and my wife is Hispanic,” he explained.

“You say there’s not anything illegal in it. Do you mind if I search it today to make sure?” the officer asked.

Lisa responded, “I’d have to talk to my husband.”

“I am asking you for permission to search your vehicle today — and you are well within your rights to say ‘no,’ and you can say ‘yes.’ It’s totally up to you as to whether you want to show cooperation or not.”

“You have to either give me a yes or no,” said the officer, “I do need an answer so I can figure out whether I need a dog to go around it or not.”

Apparently a “No” meant a dog was necessary, despite the fact that the couple had done nothing wrong.

A second officer brought out the dog. K-9s have been known to signal false positives at times, this was the case here.

“We’ve ran a dog, and the dog’s alerted on the vehicle. So we are going to be searching it, OK? And whatever is in there we are going to find in just a second,” said the officer.

“There’s never been any drugs in the vehicle and never will be,” was Ronnie’s response to the officer’s threatening insinuation.

“You are lying about the dog hitting on the car. The dog didn’t hit on the car either. You guys are drug task force. You are out here harassing me and my wife when I am just coming back from a funeral,” he said, furious. As a Federal police officer at the Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar in San Diego, he knew exactly what was happening.

“Just like a child, you can make a child say anything you want. You can make a dog do whatever you want to if you train them the right way,” Ronnie explained to News Channel 5.

The drug task force officer was well aware that he was dealing with another cop, and said, “that is exactly how I would expect most police officers to act”. They then proceeded to literally rip Lisa’s new car apart. Even after they ripped out the dashboard, they found no drugs.

It turns out it was never about drugs- “Well, I’ll be honest with you. With you going this direction, I wouldn’t think you’d have drugs in the car — you would have a large amount of money,” he said.

This disturbing practice isn’t new; “civil forfeiture”  allows law enforcement to seize property such as cash or even cars without having to prove the owners guilty of any crime. The sheer number of similar cases have even caused the mainstream media to take notice.

The logic behind it is that the police would be able to eliminate the profit-motive behind drug-trafficking. But as with all “noble” endeavors, it has been corrupted by the government henchmen that enacted it… eventually using seized property to fund their own departments. Who watches the watchmen, and all that.

With nothing to pin the couple for, they let them go. In order to justify the violation of the couple’s rights though, they wrote in a report that they had found “marijuana debris” in the car… or, more accurately, grass from the couple’s feet from the cemetery.

“It seems like Nazi Germany,” said Ronnie. “You’ve got to have the paperwork and the proper authorities to come through Tennessee.”

Sources: The Free Thought Project, Forbes, Washington Post

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