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Brickbat: That Was Underwhelming

Charles Oliver | 5.21.2018 4:00 AM


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Officers with the West Yorkshire, England, police were quite proud of the small amount of cannabis they had taken from a young man, proud enough to post it on Facebook. The post was widely mocked and eventually taken down, but not before the department banned some users from commenting on their page and threatened critics with prosecution for posting "insulting, abusive or offensive" comments.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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