Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Be on the lookout for a lost flashlight!

by Protect civil liberties! Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2005 at 1:30 PM

Garden Grove police chief Joe Polisar wonders: where could his flashlight be? His cops couldn't find it when they searched Theresa Dang's home last week. Is it at yours?

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The above photograph shows Garden Grove police chief Joe Polisar on the phone with the Los Angeles FBI. He's requesting that they setup a "joint terrorism task force" with his department to investigate people who pick up flashlights his officers drop on the ground to prevent people from stumbling on them.

Surrounding him are several cops assigned to the newly formed "flashlight unit" who will use the excuse of searching for this item to justify obtaining search warrants to raid homes and harrass people openly critical of the way the Garden Grove police department does business within that community.