When The Fucking Cops ARE The Fucking Robbers

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Again....and this is just what makes the news.


http://www.newser.com/story/206779/no-cr...vings.html

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Last month, Joseph Rivers boarded a Michigan train bound for Los Angeles with $16,000 in cash and a dream of making a music video. Instead, DEA agents, who asked to search Rivers' bags during a stop in New Mexico, seized his life savings still in a bank envelope, suspecting a link to drugs. The 22-year-old, who agreed to the search, told agents he was an aspiring producer and hoped to avoid difficulties withdrawing funds from an out-of-state bank, which his mom confirmed "nearly word for word" over the phone, Rivers writes on a GoFundMe page. But he never saw the money again. He's now fighting the seizure agents justified under civil forfeiture laws, which require only a sliver of suspicion that a person is linked to a crime—rather than an arrest or charge. "We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty," a DEA agent puts it to the Albuquerque Journal. "It's that the money is presumed to be guilty."

If the money is so guilty why are these crooked cops so eager to keep it?