dust storm for suddenly reducing visibility on the road friday. witnesses say the dust storm was fast and fierce making it impossible to see within seconds. you can see some of the cars were absolutely crushed. the road was closed for several hours but has since been reopened. the u.s. navy punishing more than 20 sailors in that july 2020 fire that destroyed the uss bonhomme richard. the most serious actions focused on the leadership of the warship and the fire response team. the ship s former commanding and executive officers both received letters of reprimand and pay forfeitures. the fire forced the navy ultimately to scrap the billion-dollar ship. and panic on the las vegas strip last night after false reports of an active shooter. according to police someone threw a rock at a glass door at the mgm grand hotel and the sound of the breaking glass is what caused people to think that shots were being fired and flee the area.
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citizens may never see their cash again. the practice is so egregious that congress is finally investigating. joining me now is david b. smith, he s a criminal r defense attorney and one of the top forfeiture experts in the country. i m so happy to have you on the show. i ve been wanting to do this topic for months. i think this is so ridiculous that this happens. i have to be honest, some of the stories and examples that i ve seen of asset forfeiture sounds more like a heist than anything associated with law enforcement. how exactly is this legal? well, that s a very good question. it s legal because civil forfeitures have been used in great britain and even in the american colonies for centuries. so it s i don t think anybody would invent it today if you know, on a clean slate. it has this historical
we ll talk about it after. as long as the police can claim that they believe this property is in some way connected to a crime, they can you know, this seizure of one s property can just happen without any sort of recourse in the immediate in the immediate term, correct? that s absolutely true under the federal process. and then the police can sell your home or sell this property and use it and use the proceeds as revenues, correct? after the property has been forfeited, yes. this is baffling to me, and i just want to let our viewers know that some of the money from civil asset forfeitures pay for military style vehicles for police departments, such as was the case in st. louis during the unrest there. the money they seize paid for some of the vehicles you saw with standoff with protesters
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