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That sounds a lot like entrapment, which I thought was illegal.
I think it’s only entrapment in a legal sense if the cop tells you take the sneakers. Simply presenting someone an opportunity to commit a crime isn’t entrapment.
If a cop went over to the kids and said “hey look, that truck is full of sneakers and no one is around, so you should go take them” that would be entrapment. But the sneakers just being there and the kids on their own accord deciding they should steal them isn’t entrapment.
It’s a really shitty thing to do to be sure, but doesn’t fit the legal definition of entrapment as far as I know.
It’s not entrapment. See https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-was-entrapped for a good explanation of what entrapment is and isn’t. It’s commonly misunderstood.
Though what it is is a very sketchy use of police resources.
It is. But if the police ask them without a lawyer “did you steal those shoes” they dont know any better and will say yes. Then they can take that to court and their parents and say “They admitted to the crime” and then more bullshit continues. Thats why if you ever get arrested DONT SAY SHIT until a lawyer is present.
Don’t say shit is my go-to after watching every forensic files episode. Seems like pretty much everyone gets convicted by admitting to it.
Clam up and let the police work it out. It’s not your job to help them.
It’s called an attractive nuissance and it’s only bad if normal people do it.
It’s only illegal if the kids know what entrapment is and go to court for it.
Who’s gonna arrest them, the cops?
Imagine if the pigs had just, like, bought those kids shoes. You know, improve the lives of other people
Sincerely, not just a quote or a meme, fuck the police.
This just in! It wasn’t just the cops it was also NORFOLK FUCKING SOUTHERN!
The good news is that they dropped the burglary charges. The bad news is that they’ve instilled a distrust in police among the black community for at least another generation.
Good point. Did they buy a truckfull of Nikes just to fuck over some kids?
What did they do with them afterwards?
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Are the kids wrong to steal, even if stealing was made easy for them? Yes.
Does that make this story any less dystopian? No.
Wrong to steal shoes in a random truck, yeah. Wrong to steal shoes, -literally placed there for you to steal-, I hope some of them at least got away with it.
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It’s weird how in some places the police is the one with a criminal’s mindset.
They did actually have to apologize and said they wouldn’t do it again …
Pinky promise ;)
Isn’t that entrapment? Isn’t that illegal?
I’d really like a link to this article
Looks like it was 2018:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/chicago-bait-truck.html
I hear Google is full of links.
Like, it’s just links all the way down.
He does have a point tho. If you post stuff like this, post a link, not a screenshot. That’s just a shitty thing to do.
Always generates more outage if people assume it just happened… that’s why the clickbait websites usually don’t put dates on their “articles”
Me walking through the mall, ummm why did you guy entrap me with all this stuff that isn’t mine?
And why did you put security right there to arrest me after I took it?