Drug War warrior
June 26, 2016Here’s an interesting article from today’s Post-Dispatch. A young Missourian wants state agencies to live up to the state’s motto: Show Me.
A Missouri man seeking ammunition in his war on the war on drugs
MEXICO, MO. • A smartphone camera poked out of his shirt pocket. An attorney stood at his side. And in his right hand was a manila folder containing a printout of a law whose impotence would soon be revealed.
“Hi, there,” said Aaron Malin to a jailer behind a security window at the Audrain County Jail. “We are here for a meeting of the East Central Drug Task Force.”
Malin and lawyer David Roland were buzzed in, but then were told to leave.
“This meeting’s not a public meeting,” said a man, identifying himself as a detective.
“Yeah, it is,” Malin said.
They argued for the next two minutes, until the officer said: “You need to leave, man. I’m not going to ask you again.”
“There’s going to be statutory liability,” Malin said. Then he asked Roland: “How fast do you think we can get this filed?”
“I bet not before the meeting is over,” the officer quipped.
Ten days later, Malin filed a lawsuit. He was 21 years old, but he had already earned a reputation for attacking situations he deemed unjust with unrivaled tenacity.
Years earlier, he had concluded that the War on Drugs ruins more lives than it saves. Now he was focused on obtaining records to expose how that war is fought. Those details, he believed, would sway public sentiment. […]
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