[trismus]

This article doesn't seem to hit or clarify any of the major points around police and official corruption or the involvement of the Mormon church, which are in my opinion the most interesting part of this.

There was a false report of heroin in a car where police identified the back seat passenger as Ben by name at the beginning of the search. They also arrested him while serving legal papers which is protected, and refused to serve the papers themselves.

[autoexec]

> This article doesn't seem to hit or clarify any of the major points around police and official corruption or the involvement of the Mormon church

The article did mention an "extremely bizarre, 30-minute YouTube video" that was "quite possibly" made by the police department about the arrests which "must be seen to be believed" but then failed to link to it. Wikipedia lists some of the police stuff, including the "residential targeted picketing" thing which sounds like a possible first amendment issue. The article and the wikipedia page didn't say anything about the Mormons though. Can you summarize their involvement?

[cluckindan]

The people stealing legos were Mormons.

The cops defending the thieves and harassing the owners and investigators were Mormons.

[enoint]

The Bricks and Minifigs CEO has a degree in psychology from Brigham Young University. The American Fork police are high school graduates, members of the LDS community. In the body cam footage, note how one refers to the other as “brother”.