Highway Robbery, Tenaha Texas police taking black motorist cars and money
March 11, 2009
You can drive into a town near the Texas-Louisiana border if you’re African-American, but you might not be able to drive out of it-at least not with your car, your cash, your jewelry or other valuables.
That’s because the police here allegedly have found a way to strip motorists, many of them black, of their property without ever charging them with a crime. Instead they offer out-of-towners a grim choice: voluntarily sign over your belongings to the town, or face felony charges of money laundering or other serious crimes.
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fabianquest | March 12, 2009 at 1:56 am
Civil forfeiture is a scam and should be abolished. If cops have the right to stop you and seize your belongings without filing charges, then we might as well live in some corrupt third-world country. We booted out the Brits to stop this sort of thing.