Probable cause is a formality. A box to check to avoid appeals.
If he didn't "smell" marijuana, he would have "smelled" alcohol, or he would have claimed "erratic driving", or he would have summoned a K9 unit which would have alerted on command.
100% this. A box to check to avoid appeals.
Wow! Another legal justification for cops to harass black folks. Great. 🤦♂️
White people smoke weed too ya know
At about the same rates, in fact. And yet, arrests are way higher for black people (in Iowa it's like 8 times higher).
The war on drugs is also a good tool to oppress poor white people, but the data on this one are really stark. Prohibition is a major tool of racial oppression in the US.
I think the point was that it's extremely hard to prove that a cop didn't smell something, so they can see a black person, lie and say they smell weed and have 0 consequences for harassing them.
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