The lawsuit added that 75 boxes of pizza were found at McCormick's farm following the raid by the Riverside County Sheriff's Office.

A weed farmer in California recently filed a lawsuit against the a local sheriff’s office alleging that they conducted an illegal raid of his farm and then threw a pizza party to celebrate.

Earlier this week, Preston McCormick filed a lawsuit against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office in California, alleging that several officers executed an “unlawful and illicit” raid at his cannabis farm, East Wind AG, and then celebrated the raid while remaining on his farm.

“Astonishingly, and at the conclusion of all this wholesale destruction and devastation at the hands of RCSD’s officers and others directed and controlled by same, all as briefly described herein and above, Defendants proceeded to celebrate the terrible results of their unlawful acts by ordering for delivery to, and then consuming, various pizza and other food and drinks, all while still remaining at and on the Property (the “Pizza Party”),” the lawsuit, which was reviewed by Newsweek, said.

The lawsuit added that 75 boxes of pizza were found at McCormick’s farm following the raid by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 months ago

    Sheriffs are usually elected too, so this is probably not going to endear the count sheriff to the voters next time around.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      36·
      6 months ago

      Sheriffs in Los Angeles and surrounding areas (which includes Riverside) are known to be literal gangs. They get tattoos when they have an on-duty shooting and celebrate when they kill someone on-duty. When people think of bad police, LAPD is usually up there on top with NYPD; but the sheriffs in the LA area are far far worse than LAPD.

      • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
        9·
        6 months ago

        Sheriffs in huge parts of the west. I live in AZ and know shit has potential to get very ugly whenever it’s a sheriff’s deputy who shows up

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      Not all of Cali is liberal

      I looked up this county and 45% voted trump. In non presidential elections, turnout is likely lower. There’s a chance this bullshit actually helps the sheriff’s re election

      • Omega@lemmy.world
        9·
        6 months ago

        When it comes to law enforcement, moderates tend to skew conservative too. That’s why conservatives jumped on the whole “defund” stuff to terrify moderates.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        That suggest the opposite to me- that if the populace found out that the cops got high, ordered a ton of pizza, then left all the pizza boxes and drove off while high and they’re conservative, they’re not going to like the Sheriff very much. But they’re also police bootlickers, so who knows?