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Originally Posted by Joe V.
This is not new and is not even close to what happened in Germany. In the late 70s and early 80s I worked on a Narcotics Task Force 'Rip Team' on the MPDC in Washington DC.
Either from surveillance of drug traffickers on the street completing deals or by an undercover officer making a buy our team would rapidly swoop in on our suspect(s), arrest and handcuff them and put them into unmarked cars, and disappear from the scene of the arrest as fast as we came in.
This method was surgical and most people on the street did not know this even happened. Very effective to not disturb the flow of the street.
If executed correctly this was done in less than a minute or two before we left the scene. These tactics were challenged in court. Every level of court appeal found no issues with this and the SCOTUS declined to overturn the Appeals Court. Like I said not new and court sanctioned.
Also as an aside, you did not need to immediately Mirandize the suspect, unless you were to question them. It all depended on the circumstances if you did it in the car or at the cop shop.
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But the people you grabbed were arrested, they were charged, they were part of a legal policing effort, they were not just grabbed then let go because there was evidence that justified their detention and charges were filed. That is absolutely not the situation in Portland. Few of the persons kidnapped have been charged or detained, just dragged off the street.
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Two protesters, Mark Pettibone and Conner O’Shea, told the outlet they were chased by an unmarked minivan early Wednesday morning as they were heading home after peacefully demonstrating. Pettibone did not escape.
“I am basically tossed into the van,” he told Oregon Public Broadcasting. “And I had my beanie pulled over my face so I couldn’t see, and they held my hands over my head.”
He said the officers did not identify themselves or state the reason he was being detained, and only read him his Miranda rights after placing him in a cell. Asked if he would waive those rights to answer a few questions, Pettibone declined and requested a lawyer. He said he was released after about 90 minutes.
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Does that sound anything like the drug arrest situation you described in DC?