ROCHESTER, MN -- A Rochester man was arrested for selling drugs to an undercover officer. Police arrested 20 year-old Guled Muhumed of southeast Rochester during an ongoing narcotics investigation. Muhumed sold or possessed 11 grams of crack cocaine, or around a thousand dollars in street value, at the time of the arrest. Police say Muhumed was pulled over during a traffic stop soon after selling the drugs but as the officer walked up to the car he drove off striking another car at The Villages of Essex Park Apartments. But that didn't stop Muhumed who then fled on foot. After a short chase police were able to arrest him. He faces multiple charges including fleeing an officer and drug sales.
http://www.kttc.com/story/8294086/drug-bust-leads-to-police-...
And he has been in the country since he was nine years old and lacks citizenship because papers filed out for his relative were not filed out for him.
While I personally would like to see all drugs legalized that does not change the fact that there are laws.
The idea that the law should be suspended for anyone who has a compelling story that can get media attention and win popular appeal is freaking insane.
If you go down that road you go from a corrupt legal system to having no rule of law at all where the legal system simply punishes people arbitrarily based on how popular and appealing they are.
He agreed to be deported at the time, he just didn't understand the consequences.
One of my close friends is a cop in Rochester, MN. The drug problem in that city is becoming increasingly worse. Sorry, I don't have sympathy for people who take advantage of the compassion found in Western societies.
I have. I have no sympathy for someone who chooses to peddle drugs. One can speak about the difference in crack and powder cocaine sentencing, fair. Still, these are not marijuana. They can and will destroy lives.
That this man made it to America and chose to engage in crime says much of his character and willingness to watch humans slip into the abyss.
First of all, he's going to a place where record keeping for identity is really lax. He can be anybody he wants to be. He can trivially claim to have a different name.
Second of all, he has a valuable skill: fluent English.
If there are any conditions at all it will seem "unfair" compared with citizens. So we either have no laws at all, and make everyone a citizen who wants to be, or we do some "unfair" things sometimes.
