You can imagine the shock Cuban immigrant Noel Llorente received when police and federal agents in Opa-Locka, Florida, kicked in the door of his home, threw him to the ground, and slapped on the handcuffs -- all because someone phoned in an anonymous tip that there was a hydroponics lab inside. There wasn't.
But the Llorente house was just one small mistake in a series of otherwise flawless raids. Dubbed "Operation D-Day" (yeah, I know, really original), the jack-booted thugs nabbed $7 million worth of marijuana plants. Surely that's worth damaging the property and reputation of one law-abiding immigrant.
This is the Land of the Free, after all. The Home of the Brave. The United Freakin' States of America. This is a safe haven for all those trying to get away from the kind of police state tactics that go on in Third World dictatorships (or Opa-Locka, Florida). Mr. Llorente must be the exception that proves the rule.
But the Llorente house was just one small mistake in a series of otherwise flawless raids. Dubbed "Operation D-Day" (yeah, I know, really original), the jack-booted thugs nabbed $7 million worth of marijuana plants. Surely that's worth damaging the property and reputation of one law-abiding immigrant.
This is the Land of the Free, after all. The Home of the Brave. The United Freakin' States of America. This is a safe haven for all those trying to get away from the kind of police state tactics that go on in Third World dictatorships (or Opa-Locka, Florida). Mr. Llorente must be the exception that proves the rule.
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