Courts have ruled that the police can search your garbage without a warrant. The reasoning is that once you discard something, it’s no longer your property.
But following that logic, why have police officers guarded dumpsters to prevent homeless people from eating any discarded food? Shouldn’t the food be considered public property once it’s intended to be discarded?
Either the police only care about the property rights of rich people, or their literal goal is to make homeless people starve just for the sake of making homeless people starve.
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