B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder::Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.

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    1 year ago

    I hope they atleast got a warrant to run the operation and have protocols to destroy genetic details unconnected to the case after its done.

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      1 year ago

      “We know the murderer is a human, so we got a warrant to take blood samples from every human. Which of course makes that a legal and moral decision.”

      “Obviously we’ll destroy all of those samples afterwards. We’re the police, you can trust us”