re: #258 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

They informed the cops of what they found in the search.

Or they’re freaked out in the wake of bombings and just wanted to cover their asses and figured the cops would know what to do. In the end, absolutely no harm came to his guy because of it. There’s no way that ‘siccing’ the cops on someone for something like this when he’s innocent is going to wind up with them arresting him. He didn’t get humiliated.

Meanwhile, probably like a hundred black men in Harlem got stop and frisked today.

I understand what you’re saying. My problem is six armed, warrantless cops showed up at his place after they fired him. I think that’s excessive, regardless of what was in his browser history.

Assuming there were no obvious threats made, I don’t understand why one cop couldn’t go out and have a quick chat.

And quite frankly, it speaks to the American mentality of “ZOMG TERRORISTS EVERYWHERE” we’ve indulged in over the last 12 years.

EDIT: I should probably amend “regardless of what was in his browser history” to “given what was in his browser history”. Obviously, if there was something really nasty there, the cops would have to act appropriately.