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.

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.

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    6 months 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.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      72·
      6 months 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”