Undercover cop tricks Aspergers kid into buying weed

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http://www.alternet.org/cops-go-underco ... 844425&t=7

I feel like murdering these people. Will we, or at least autistic kids, never be treated with respect? We can't even trust the people who are supposed to protect us, into using our social obliviousness for their own sick gain. This kid was specifically targeted because he had Aspergers.\angry momentary rant

Yeah that's really sad, You'd think they'd have more important things to do then beg a kid to buy $20 worth of weed.

Isn't that entrapment?

The police should not be allowed to sell drugs to catch people.

If selling drugs is illegal, it should be illegal full stop. Not legal for the police.

That's one law for them and one for the rest of us. Not fair.

Besides, that police officer possessed the drugs before the kid with Asperger's.

Technically, he broke the law too!

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=9092324

Sounds like the other way around. The dumb kid was the one selling pot. Aspie or no aspie. Sell drugs IMO, off to prison you go.....

I think most people need to understand that cops arent there to protect you they are there to make as much money as possible on the suffering of mostly innocent people that is the job of the police.

So, the undercover cop wanted to buy weed off the guy, suggesting that said guy was already in possession of said weed, or else was capable of getting it? Still, it's entrapment - without being pressured to do so, it seems unlikely that he would be "dealing drugs" (quotes because drug dealing seems to be only called that when it's "illegal").

Though in my mind, all that is irrelevant, because possessing and trading weed is not in itself an immoral action - foolish, yes, but those doing it are guilty of little else than that. Now, oppressing people who do it, on the other hand, and claiming to have the moral right to use violence to stop them...

Deep breaths, deep breaths. Avoid full on Libertarian rant...

The kid has been cleared of any criminal charges, and the parents are suing the school.

That makes me sick.

"There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is only us!" - Nicolae Carpathia

As times change, there will be problems and reformations. Aspies need to protect each other and live with each other to prevent these types of incidents.

I'm right behind you on that one...

Though I do believe in Heaven and Hell. But as far as this world goes, we need to stick together and up for each other.

I think using a vulnerable student who badly wants friends and to be accepted and is easily pressured into doing things because someone can't take no for an answer and can easily guilt trip them are lazy cowards. This undercover cop was because he targeted this student to make his job easier because he knew it would be so easy.

There was this joker in my high school graduating class who thought he was the class clown. He was more jackass than clown. He was always goading me into buying some cannabis. I was going to collect some grass clippings the next time I mowed the lawn at my home. I was going to clue in the principal at my high school (he's a distant relative) on what i was going to do to get this jackass to back off. If it weren't for the fact my friends and most of my teachers talked me out of doing it, I would have given him a dime bag for free, then see the look on Liz face when he'd rolled the stuff, light it up, and take a drag.