Court hammers Florida sheriff’s office for SWAT-style raid to check for barber licenses

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/court-hammers-florida-sheriffs-office-for-swat-style-raid-to-check-for-barber-licenses/



Court hammers Florida sheriff’s office for SWAT-style raid to check for barber licenses
Travis Gettys
18 Sep 2014

An appeals court harshly rebuked the Orange County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office over a SWAT-style raid to check for barber licenses, finding it was unreasonable to conduct such an investigation of a second-degree misdemeanor.

The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that deputies had violated the civil rights of barbers at Strictly Skillz during a 2010 license inspection, reported the Sun-Sentinel.

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No illegal or unlicensed activities were found at Strictly Skillz, where barbers said eight to 10 masked deputies wearing bulletproof vests raided the shop and cleared out customers during a busy weekend.

The appeals court ruled inspections “must be ‘appropriately limited’” and “may not serve as a backdoor for undertaking a warrantless search unsupported by probable cause.”

[lpbk2713]

1. Law enforcement is getting to be a farce.

So it takes eight or ten of them in full costume to look at a

document hanging on the wall? These clowns have way too

much time on their hands. The PTB really ought to cut back

on the manpower if they can afford to do shit like this.

[Downwinder]

2. Sounds more like a protection racket. Did the shop not pay up?

[steve2470]

3. Good !

OCSO was 100000000000000% out of line when they did this. It was in a minority-dominated area of Orange County. I daresay they would never done this in Winter Park, for example.