This should shock and anger you. ARMED DEPUTIES arresting "unlicensed barbers." That's BARBERS.

As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a busy back-to-school weekend.

It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.

In "sweeps" on Aug. 21 and Sept. 17 targeting at least nine shops, deputies arrested 37 people — the majority charged with "barbering without a license," a misdemeanor that state records show only three other people have been jailed in Florida in the past 10 years.

The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. Deputies said they found evidence of illegal activity, including guns, drugs and gambling. However, records show that during the two sweeps, and a smaller one in October, just three people were charged with anything other than a licensing violation.

via orlandosentinel.com

Money quotes:
"...conducted with a state regulating agency,..."

Regulating agencies now have armed cops with the license to kill un-licensed barbers? What the hell is that about?

"...The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. ..."

Without Warrants? Hey all you 'civil rights' screamers and ACLU types that were freaked out about warrantless wiretapping of known terrorists get a friggin clue and do something about this. Without Warrants?

"The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. "

So that's it? That is a good use of community police? Unlicensed barbers. With guns drawn? Really?

In America?

Read the whole thing. It should make you sick... and angry.

The minuscule amount of drugs found does not make this something that we the American people should have to put up with. There was a crime here, for sure.

But not with 'unlicensed barbers'... my oh my.

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