Why is this woman sobbing?
This is Trinity Tomsic. She’s married to the Honorable Cheye Calvo, Mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland. She’s distraught because the couple recently lost their family pets — two black Labradors — after cops in Maryland broke down their door, handcuffed the Mayor, opened fire and killed the animals.
The Mayor and his wife weren’t committing any crimes. They were the victims of an on-going crime known as the War on Drugs.
It seems that the couple had received a package, via regular post, of over 30 pounds of marijuana. You know… leaves.
This gave law enforcement rise to forcibly break into the couple’s home, place the mayor in handcuffs (and leave him that way for hours), shoot the couple’s dogs and treat the pair as if they’d committed murder. At the end of it all, the geniuses in Berwyn Heights’ police department figured out that the couple had nothing to do with the delivery.
They wouldn’t even apologize for icing the dogs.
The story is here and it should probably make you rethink the role of government in protecting us from ourselves. In other words, is grass really cause for an overzealous cop discharging a firearm in a family’s home? Which does more harm?
These people are victims, but there’s plenty more victims out there. The War on Drugs doesn’t work. It creates a black market where there should instead be oversight. It creates organized crime where there would otherwise be none. It creates gang violence, turf wars, criminals out of addicts and ruined lives over a plant.
A damn plant.
No wonder potheads are so paranoid.
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