Welcome To Extortion, Texas.

Whose take are you talking about? The Texas media or the LA Times?

 

Got some of the Texas links, FTH? Because this story fascinates me.

 

Wow. I'm just stunned when I hear that shit like this still goes on in parts of this country, and that we have police that believe they can actually get away with this.

And no surprise that they used the assett forfeiture law intended for drug traffickers as the excuse. Just another example of how our "war on drugs" legislation enables police corruption and overreach.

 

This one goes even higher than the police though.

 

This was the basis of an old Rockford Files epsiode I just watched.

 

The sheriff used to to this about 15-20 years ago in Daytona Beach (any minority with any money on the highway was assumed to be toting drug money) until the Supreme Court made them stop.

 

Not shocked in the least, unfortunately. Reminds me a little of one of my favorite books, "Praying For Sheetrock."

 

I have a cousin-by-marriage who uses the n-word and closes his little shop during Black Spring Break in Daytona because he can't stand to have blacks in his shop. Me, if I owned a shop, I'd only hate to have people with no money in it. So that doesn't surprise me that the yokels up there would do something like this.

 

San Antonio Express-News first broke the story.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Property_seizures_seen_as_piracy_.html

 

The Ark-La-Tex is a terrestrial Bermuda Triangle of Bad Things. I really hated it when my dad lived in Shreveport.

 

Isn't there some city near Beaumont that was doing something along these lines too? Or, at the very least, is infamous for pulling folks over for Driving While Black.

Never About Race of course.

 

It is that, wi. Google "Dog Men" and see what you get. It's like a step back in time.