Highway Robbery in Tennessee

Here's a great video by a Tennessee news station (NewsChannel 5) on civil asset forfeiture. It shows how police are using this practice to steal money from motorists using the pretense that it's drug money.

So, why am I posting this video here on a list about animals? Because this is exactly the same practice that is being used to steal dogs from breeders, not just in Tennessee, but all over the country. Civil asset forfeiture laws are being misused to allow law enforcement (and animal rights-driven rescues) to seize animals on the suspicion of someone having committed a crime, before anything has been proven. And those animals are being dispersed, with the money made from them going to animal rights-oriented rescues and shelters. Those actions are just as illegal as what you see being done in this video.