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bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 08:12 PM Sep 2025

A sting operation at a high-priced sporting event that fans paid to attend.

I'm not a big fan of deception. Despite past SCOTUS ruling, most famously in the ABSCAM case, that entrapment was moot, doesn't a sting risk provocation? Would behavior have been different without the sting?

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