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Police Abuse

Spit Take

Charles Oliver | 9.8.2015 6:00 AM

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The Oakland, California, police department is investigating an officer who was caught on video apparently spitting at the person recording him. A friend of the person who shot the video says that officers also illegally searched his car.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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