This special podcast features the Harte family, whose home was raided by a SWAT team after police found tea leaves in the family’s trash.

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Tenth Circuit decision: http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/16/16-3014.pdf
District court decision: http://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/tomatoesdistrictmemorandum.pdf
Johnson County’s petition for en banc review: http://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Document.pdf
Nielson and Walker article: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763135
Washington Post/Radley Balko article:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/
Radley Balko book: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577

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