Police Target Social Media at Jimmy Buffett Concert for ‘marijuana’

FRISCO TX – Frisco Police Chief John Bruce spoke in front of city council members last week to advocate for purchasing social media software under the guise that it will help “operational capabilities” of their NIMS Type 3 SWAT Team. However, by the Chiefs own admission, the software has already been used to find pot smokers at large events, such as the 2014 Jimmy Buffett concert.

The police department contends that all the information is publicly available, which may be true, however, aggregating all this information into a single interface could prove dangerous for a harmless parrothead who might choose to tweet out a picture of a large doobie, for example. Police seemingly can’t wait to get their hands on this technology in hopes they have finally found the solution to win the war on drugs, by incarcerating every single person who even tweets about smoking a flower.

By looking over any recent arrest report, one can see that Frisco already arrests enough pot smokers for either possessing the plant, or its associated “paraphernalia.” It’s time for citizens to understand the nature of prohibition, and the associated violence which ensues, carried out by our own police departments. Contrary to what a politician writes on a piece of paper, smoking a flower is not a crime. The only crime is locking someone up who chooses to smoke a flower.

Watch the Frisco Police Chief brag about targeting parrotheads

