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> A police officer suspected the windows of her silver Mitsubishi Galant were tinted too darkly, then found her license was suspended. He arrested her, and a search of her car

Straight up parallel construction, until demonstrated otherwise. Gotta love that strategically built weaseling - "suspecting" the tint and "suspended license". Regurgitating this uncritically shows just how little credibility the entire article has.

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It seems like you are implying that because they might be obfuscating a hypothetical "source" that the findings are invalidated. What would you have the author do, instead?

The author could have investigated whether the windows ever actually were found to be too dark (or whether it was just a pretext), and what the actual reason for the suspended license was (eg something the person did, or the quite common no-notice suspension arising from some bureaucratic mess).

Without that, they're really just uncritically repeating the story of one biased and routinely corrupt party. Which mirrors the rest of the article, as it seems to be a hit piece setting up a pretext for going after these Really Bad Foreign People. Ostensibly with the goal of further empowering the agencies and broken legal regime that is responsible for the fentanyl crisis in the first place.

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