I really dislike that news media never give references to the actual court docs that they are reporting on. Many times it's truly lazy, just reporting the fact that another news outlet reported on a case.

Noho Diagnostic Center, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles (2:24-cv-07952), District Court, C.D. California

Full complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.94... [pdf]

Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69172475/noho-diagnosti...

OFFICER FRANCO conducted surveillance on multiple dates in 2023, reporting the "distinct odor of live cannabis plant"..

OFFICER FRANCO compared the power usage of the TARGET PREMISES to nearby businesses and found it significantly higher.

Sounds like Officer Franco may need some retraining.

"not allowed" signs are for you citizen losers, not for badass in charge heros.

I cannot believe that the police are allowed to destroy private property and then not pay for it. One particularly egregious example is from Greenwood Village, Colorado[1]. If the destruction of property is necessary to achieve a public good, then the public tax fund should compensate the owners. If it was not necessary, then the individuals who made the incorrect decision to destroy it should be held liable. Under no circumstances should an innocent bystander have their house (or MRI machine) destroyed by the police and then be told that they have to pay for it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Robert_Seacat

I'm sorry, I know this isn't the point... And there's another entirely relevant/important conversation to be had here but...

Do magnets suck? I think magnets pull, but 'suck' to me involves a vacuum.

Also magnets very clearly rock...

This sounds to me like an attempted asset forfeiture.

The idea that in LA you could get a warrant to raid a business because they use a lot of power and it smells like weed would qualify ALOT of businesses in California for a seizure.

https://archive.ph/1vnOb

>> At one point, an officer walked into an MRI room, past a sign warning that metal was prohibited inside, with his rifle “dangling… in his right hand, with an unsecured strap,” the lawsuit said. The MRI machine’s magnetic force then allegedly sucked his rifle across the room, pinning it against the machine.

I'd consider it lucky that the rifle didn't discharge. All the safety systems in the world cannot be expected to protect against a random magnetic field doing who knowns what with the internals of a gun while it flies across the room. But this sort of unforeseen situation is why you never walk around with a finger on the trigger.

Very stereotypical aggressive police behavior. The “warrior cop” hero syndrome. This is utterly and disgustingly not surprising. From civil forfeiture to qualified immunity, the police have slowly become just as dangerous to innocent citizens as the criminals. No one will lose their job for this. No one will be held responsible. That alone is the worst crime.

those machines are effectively giant magnets. people think they are just tubes of metal.

>An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

Idiots with guns and qualified immunity. It wouldn't have been that hard to ask the "lone female employee" for help shutting the machine down safely, but it would have made him feel like less of a badass operator.

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