DANA POINT (CBSLA.com) — Dana Hills High School students were released from a four-hour lockdown Thursday after an empty rifle or shotgun carrying case was reportedly found in a campus parking lot…
…Dozens of officers and the Orange County sheriff’s SWAT team with its armored vehicle rolled onto campus and began an all-out search of classrooms, lockers, cars and the school grounds for a weapon. Authorities say there were no threats received
At least they did not find an “empty” jockstrap or they would have strip searched and arrested every single male in the school and taken them downtown for “ballistic” testing.
California, where they build a moat around the barn after the horses have escaped.
$20 says the “rifle or shotgun carrying case” was simply a guitar or other musical gig-bag.
This is bit of a tangent, but I’m tired of violations of Fourth Amendment rights. If a car is parked, locked, and without occupants just on school grounds, a police officer cannot claim probable cause and search it!
Likewise, just because there is a criminal in the neighborhood does not allow dynamic entries by SWAT teams. I wonder if people need to start shooting officers who try to illegally enter. Lacking a warrant and a piss poor probable cause is not sufficient.