“Someone in police custody cannot give consent, in any meaningful sense of the word, to the officer holding them,†The Intercept’s Natasha Lennard wrote about the case last month. “Claiming to have received consent, whether it is based in any truth or not, betrays a policing culture that refuses to recognize its own outsized power over those it alleges to protect and serve.â€
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