Watch warrantless police raid on Ky. dive bar: ‘If you’re clean, you get to go out the front door’

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/12/watch-warrantless-police-raid-on-ky-dive-bar-if-youre-clean-you-get-to-go-out-the-front-door/



Watch warrantless police raid on Ky. dive bar: ‘If you’re clean, you get to go out the front door’
By Travis Gettys
Friday, September 12, 2014 10:19 EDT

Police raided a Louisville bar Tuesday night, and a video posted on YouTube shows police searching patrons and employees before allowing them to leave.

The video was recorded by a patron at Cahoots, a bar in the popular Bardstown Road entertainment district, and posted online.

“Show of hands, who has something on them that they shouldn’t have?” asked the officer, who said police would pat down every customer. “We’re going to start over here in this corner. We’re going to work our way around, and if we go by, if you’re clean, you get to go out the front door.”

Police said they were assisting the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) office of metro government investigate possible violations of the bar’s liquor license.

[yeoman6987]

1. Oh for Gods sake

We are here to help the liqueur board find violations? WTF!!!

[Shrike47]

2. I hope anybody who was carrying anything illegal kept their mouth shut.

If the cops found it on an unwarranted search, sounds like a good motion to suppress.

[A Little Weird]

3. Police state tactics

I hope the patrons sue them for all they're worth.

One customer asked about their rights, an employee said, and a police officer told him he had “the right to shut up."