Kansas SWAT team raids family over hydroponic tomato garden and tea leaves

Cops staked out a gardening store and apparently thought the dad and two kids were growing pot.  The SWAT raid was based on nothing more than gardening supplies and tea leaves in the garbage.

This could have gone far worse: dead pets, or dead people, all over a lazily-researched SWAT raid.  Not to mention the terror the militarized cops inflicted on the children.

34 criminal cases tossed, and over 100 under review, after body cam footage shows cop planting drugs

Video evidence of cop planting drugs has resulted in the dismissal of all cases that hinged on those officers’ credibility.

Lucky for his innocent victims, the cop didn’t realize that his body cam captured the 30 seconds just before he activated it.  This seems to be a good argument for body cams that record non-stop, and that can’t be switched off by the cop wearing it.  Some cops, though, don’t seem particularly keen on the idea of body cams that are always recording.