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.

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Was it?

    It’s not clear if a warrant was sought or obtained, and police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    I really don’t know what to think of it overall. Obviously I’m happy they were able to eventually identify and convict someone who raped and murdered a child. The way they went about the large sweep was deceptive, but if there’s a warrant and supervision and protections in place for the innocent people who had no connection to the crime maybe it’s okay. I know I’d be feeling deceived and probably a little violated if I was one of the innocent people who was caught in the sweep, though.