Asset Forfeiture and protesting

[Zoonart]

Arizona Senate allows cops to seize assets from anyone who takes part in a protest that turns violent

The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate has passed a bill that would let law enforcement officials seize the assets of people who participate in protests that turn violent — even if those people had nothing to do with any violent incidents.

The Arizona Capital Times reports that the bill, which passed on Wednesday, “expands the state’s racketeering laws, now aimed at organized crime, to also include rioting,” while also redefining “what constitutes rioting to include actions that result in damage to the property of others.”

The bill would allow police to seize assets of anyone who attended a peaceful protest that happened to turn violent, and it also gives cops the power to arrest people who planned the events, even if they did not personally commit violence.

[link: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/arizona-senate-allows-cops-to-seize-assets-from-anyone-who-takes-part-in-a-protest-that-turns-violent/?comments=disqus|

[democratisphere]

1. This is what happens when republiCONs are elected to office.

The Bill of Rights is nullified. Sounds more like laws fabricated in a dictatorship.

[DetlefK]

2. First Amendment? Freedom of Association?

[2naSalit]

3. Those were Obama's laws

so the 'cons can just toss all that aside.

[angstlessk]

4. Hell, the police always love forfeiture cash...just send in

agents provocateur to cause violence and they can steal 1000's of folks cash all at once!