When Police Harass Citizens, Are Corporations Getting What They Pay For?
This piece first appeared at DCMediaGroup.
The shoulders of Cove Point Road in Lusby, Maryland are looking pretty ragged these days. Recently, heavy trucks and construction vehicles have crumbled the pavement as they thunder down the narrow road. Not far up Cove Point Road from the main highway, just past the sometimes clogged intersection with H.G. Trueman Rd., they turn left and enter the gates of the LNG plant thats been there for 40 years, but is now undergoing a major upgrade. The road also looks a little brownish from dirt spilled by dump trucks.
Early in the morning on Sunday, May 31, there was no traffic to speak of when two cars with Pennsylvania license plates negotiated the gentle turns and hills of Cove Point Road. A police cruiser followed them. Soon after Cove Point Road turned into Lighthouse Blvd., the two cars, still followed by the police cruiser, turned onto Holly Drive. Blue lights flashed. A sheriffs deputy wearing olive green pants and a black shirt got out and approached the first car.
You dont belong here, he said. Youre not welcome here.
As he leaned in, a white badge dangled from a lanyard around his neck. It read, Dominion Contractor.
The Double-Sided Badge
What happened over the next houran investigation of suspicious vehicles by ten officers and a drug-sniffing dog, which culminated in an arrestmight be traced back to the fact that the white badge had a flip side. When Dfc. Christopher Sloane turned it over, it suddenly became a Calvert County Sheriffs Department badge on a black background. ....................(more)
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