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[SunSeeker]

115. The reports are wrong. There is no video of them "kicking down a door."

And no, we don't arrest and detain people for petty misdemeanors.

The police admitted today the "crimes" Lochte and Feigen are accused of do not even carry jail time.

Funny how the security guards did not report the altercation...until Brazilian authorities tracked them down. Then they released an edited video which did not show the part where the security guards, pointing guns at the swimmers, hit the swimmers up for money before letting them leave.

This was all about Brazil throwing a hissy fit because a famous athlete blabbed to the media that he was robbed and they felt their honor was insulted by a privileged ugly American.

If some Brazilians in the US claimed in the media they had been robbed, we would suggest they file a police report. And if they didn't we would leave it alone. These four never filed police reports. Instead, the police started an investigation of the four, infuriated by the bad press. The police dug up dirt on them, interviewed Lochte and Feigen (where the alleged "false statements" were made), then got a judge to issue an order confiscating the four's passports, stopping an international flight on the tarmac, and then arrested the other two who were on that plane because they wanted to force them to testify against Lochte and Feigen. It was a horrible abuse of police power.

A much better use of their resources would be investigating why their pools turned green--or maybe, I don't know, going after murderers and rapists.