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Brickbat: They Don't Like It When It Happens to Them

Charles Oliver | 12.17.2012 6:00 AM


A Chicago jury has awarded Markee Cooper Sr. $565,000 after cops broke into his home searching for drugs. The jury found that one of the officers was responsible for false information used to get the warrant to search the house. Cooper is himself a police officer.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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