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Officers escort arrestee into cruiser.
A man in his late teens who pulled into a McDonald’s parking lot Friday afternoon never got a chance to order a Happy Meal.
Undercover cops followed him into the lot and, with the help of beat officers, arrested him.
The undercover cops, members of the police department’s narcotics task force, had spotted the man driving on Whalley and recognized him as having an outstanding robbery warrant. Rather than launch a risky car chase, they waited until he pulled into the lot near the intersection of Sherman Avenue, called for back up (which arrived in the form of officers for policing Districts 4 and 10), and made the arrest without incident around 2 p.m., police said.
Police also allegedly found drugs in his car. He and a man with him were arrested on drug charges.
Lunchtime crowd watches the action.
This is like watching a prohibition era movie where they seize cases of booze and smash the bottles.
Nixon instituted the bogus War on Drugs to eliminate hippies and blacks from voting Democratic. It's public record.<br /> So why haven't we repealed the drug laws, regulated and taxed drugs just like alcohol?<br /> The prison-industrial complex (modern version of the plantation) must be fed and it's profits kept on rolling along.<br /> The police didn't invent this madness, but it has to affect them too.<br /> Oh well, we don't put people in the stocks on the Green any more, so I will be patient and know that these atrocities will someday be history.<br /> As for the casualties and their families, maybe we'll be ready for Reparations in the year 3000.