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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAsset Forfeiture and protesting
Arizona Senate allows cops to seize assets from anyone who takes part in a protest that turns violent
The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate has passed a bill that would let law enforcement officials seize the assets of people who participate in protests that turn violent even if those people had nothing to do with any violent incidents.
The Arizona Capital Times reports that the bill, which passed on Wednesday, expands the states racketeering laws, now aimed at organized crime, to also include rioting, while also redefining what constitutes rioting to include actions that result in damage to the property of others.
The bill would allow police to seize assets of anyone who attended a peaceful protest that happened to turn violent, and it also gives cops the power to arrest people who planned the events, even if they did not personally commit violence.
[link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/arizona-senate-allows-cops-to-seize-assets-from-anyone-who-takes-part-in-a-protest-that-turns-violent/?comments=disqus|
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Asset Forfeiture and protesting (Original Post)
Zoonart
Feb 2017
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. This is what happens when republiCONs are elected to office.
The Bill of Rights is nullified. Sounds more like laws fabricated in a dictatorship.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)2. First Amendment? Freedom of Association?
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)3. Those were Obama's laws
so the 'cons can just toss all that aside.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)4. Hell, the police always love forfeiture cash...just send in
agents provocateur to cause violence and they can steal 1000's of folks cash all at once!