A jury decided last year that the owner of a small organic farm, Shellie Smith, still owes $4000 after a raid by SWAT that destroyed her farm.
Garden of Eden, a small organic in Arlington, Texas, was the target of a SWAT raid in 10-hour long search with Smith being held at gunpoint at one point.
Arlington police dept. stated that there were complaints of marijuana being grown on the premises, but none was found on the property. Instead, law enforcement confiscated 17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants, native grasses and sunflowers.
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Yes, we are CRIME FIGHTERS down to the last blueberry!
I didn’t know having an untidy farm was a felony? We support the police 100% but this makes it very difficult to do so. Why didn’t ONE of them go in under cover and see if there were in illegal plants being grown. If they can’t tell blue berries and okra from mariuana, they need to be in a different line of worjk.
We are from the government and we are jere to help you.
The use of a swat team to enforce city code violations is absurd. As a Texan I’m embarrassed by this action and the State Attorney General should investigate.
the country is broken, we are now harassing Americans that choose to be self sufficient…this is disgusting and needs to be stopped…our president can go to a cult mosque and deliver a traitors speech and nothing happens but you grow your own food…and the government comes in and destroy that way of life… she should sue
nothing else to do!
Wtf is America coming to.
Thank God they got those tomatilloes off the streets! (sarcasm)
If them damn revenoowers come after my cannas, I’m going out fightin’!
Krissy Magruder Greer I can blame them for following unlawful orders and not protecting the people of this country like the oath they took. Afraid of losing their paychecks which seem more important to them than people’s rights and lives.