One more bad guy off the streets. MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE

http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/09/riverside-cop-tricks-autistic-teen-into/1

tl;dr - http://youtu.be/0t1oVWOlnk8

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""We felt like our family was totally violated by the sheriff's department and the school district," says Doug and Catherine Snodgrass of Temecula, California. Last December their 17-year-old autistic high school son was arrested after twice buying marijuana for an undercover Riverside county police officer. The undercover operation, titled "Operation Glass House," spanned a few months and included undercover officers in three area high schools: Chaparral, Temecula Valley, and Rancho Vista Continuation. The officers posed as regular high school students and would ask other students for drugs. Twenty-two students were arrested - the majority of them are reported to be special needs students like the Snodgrass' son. Their son, who wished to remain unnamed, is noticeably handicapped and has been diagnosed with autism as well as bipolar disorder, Tourettes, and several anxiety disorders. "Everyday is a challenge for him," says his father. Their son's list of disabilities have many in the community wondering why he was targeted in this undercover drug operation. The ordeal began on the first day of school last fall. The family had just moved to a new neighborhood and their son began his senior year at a new school, Chaparral High, in the Temecula Valley Unified School District. Their son rarely socialized, so his mom was thrilled when he announced that he had made a new friend in art class on the first day of school. "We were so excited. I told him he should ask his friend to come over for pizza and play video games," says Catherine Snodgrass, "but his new friend always had an excuse." His new friend, who went under the name of Daniel Briggs, was known as "Deputy Dan" to many students because it was so apparent to them that he was an undercover officer. However, to their son, whose disabilities make it hard for him to gauge social cues, Dan was his only real friend. Dan reportedly sent 60 text messages to their son begging for drugs. According to his parents, the pressure to buy drugs was too much for the autistic teen who began physically harming himself. The Snodgrass' son finally agreed to buy Dan the pot. Dan give him twenty dollars and it took him three weeks to buy a half joint of pot off a homeless man downtown. This happened twice. When Dan asked a third time, their son refused and Dan cut off all communication. "Our son was pretty broken up about that and he was back to having zero friends," says Doug Snodgrass. On December 11, 2012 armed police officers walked into their son's classroom and arrested him in front of his peers. He was taken to the juvenile detention center, along with the 21 other arrestees, where he was kept for 48 hours. First hand reports claim that the juvenile center was caught off guard by the large number of arrests and that some youths had to sleep on the floor, using toilet paper as pillows. Their son was also expelled from high school. The Snodgrass' hired a private attorney and took their case to court. In January, he was found not guilty due to extenuating circumstances. The judge had him undergo informal probation and perform 20 hours of community service. In March, an administrative judge ordered their son to be reinstated into school stating that the district had left their son "anxious and alone" to defend for himself against an undercover police officer. "

[Edited on October 10, 2013 at 4:25 PM. Reason : -]

10/10/2013 4:21:12 PM

You've got to be shitting me

also, iop1

10/10/2013 4:25:07 PM

I expected a parody of an A. Wyatt Mann comic.

10/10/2013 4:33:17 PM

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"known as "Deputy Dan" to many students because it was so apparent to them that he was an undercover officer."

hahahahaha

10/10/2013 4:34:41 PM

Yeah this is pretty much bullshit. That cop should be dismissed from duty for being a dumbass.

10/10/2013 4:35:09 PM

FUCK

[Edited on October 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM. Reason : -]

10/10/2013 4:39:21 PM

Was the cop too dumb to know the difference between a high teenager and a special needs art student?

10/10/2013 5:22:29 PM

No he was just desperate for an arrest because he was terrible at being an undercover and no one else would talk to him.

10/10/2013 5:26:13 PM

I, for one, feel safer

10/10/2013 6:19:19 PM

I, for one, am not surprised

10/10/2013 6:30:34 PM

I imagine a good 90 percent of arrests they make are pretty shameful. But this is especially pathetic.

10/10/2013 6:43:09 PM

haha what a piece of shit cop

10/10/2013 6:57:36 PM

I would think there's a lawsuit in there somewhere...but I can't think of a cause of action off the top of my head.

10/10/2013 6:58:30 PM

What jbrick said.

And seriously, why the fuck did the judge give him anything? My friend sends me stories of cops doing fucked up shit all the time and, like those, this one also makes me

10/10/2013 7:07:54 PM

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress maybe??

10/10/2013 7:08:56 PM

^^^read the link or watch the video. the parents are filing against the school district

[Edited on October 10, 2013 at 7:14 PM. Reason : -]

10/10/2013 7:13:39 PM

great something else that can piss me off today

I hope that guy gets his ass handed to him on a platter

10/10/2013 7:16:33 PM

Why on a platter? Are you imagining some kind of fancy wine and ass party?

10/10/2013 7:48:02 PM

handed to him on a tv tray didnt have the same ring

10/10/2013 7:51:57 PM

10/10/2013 7:55:57 PM

It was just a regular platter, like a shitty bar food platter, not a silver platter.

10/10/2013 7:56:10 PM

OMG, a party with TV trays would be awesome.

I'm also still waiting on an invite to a specifically unsexy pajama party.

10/10/2013 8:04:07 PM

dont worry, they need you to make it unsexy

10/10/2013 8:12:53 PM

A serving tray for bar food is not a platter.

10/10/2013 8:25:30 PM

Lets get back to the topic at hand: FUCK THA POLICE

^no I mean like chicken fingers platter. Wtf is the difference between a tray and a platter anyway

[Edited on October 10, 2013 at 8:47 PM. Reason : Blah]

10/10/2013 8:44:41 PM

platter comes with 2 sides
tray comes with slaw and hush puppies

duh

http://clydecoopersbbq.com/menus

10/10/2013 9:32:14 PM

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love

this american life did a story of undercover cops in high schools begging kids to buy them drugs then busting them. pretty sickening.

10/10/2013 9:49:33 PM

These young cops must be either really fucking stupid/brainwashed and have no idea that they're ruining kids lives, or they're just completely amoral, heartless pieces of shit. Either way, they are ten times worse than these "criminals" they are putting away.

10/10/2013 10:27:26 PM

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""really fucking stupid/brainwashed... and completely amoral, heartless pieces of shit.""

Sounds like a normal highschooler to me. Deep undercover.

10/10/2013 11:35:54 PM

There were a couple of these at my high school at one point. It was so painfully obvious that they were cops that necessarily the only ones that would fall for it would have to be someone with mental disabilities and/or easily manipulable.

10/11/2013 6:29:48 AM