According to WSB-TV 2 Atlanta, 80 young adults were arrested over the weekend for being at a gathering at which less than an ounce of weed was present.

Deja Heard rented a home through Airbnb for her 21st birthday; it was there that the incident occurred.  

Cartersville, Georgia police said officers responded to a call about apparent gunshots fired early Sunday morning, and that something led them to believe that partygoers had drugs on them. Exactly what that something was was not elaborated on.

According to party attendees, police officers entered the home despite not having a warrant. The officers later claimed that they smelled marijuana in the front yard. 

In a press release about the mass arrest, police said that they did have a warrant, and said that they found two stolen guns, weed and multiple means of smoking said marijuana on the first floor of the property. Officers also said that they found a white powder in small packages they believe to be cocaine being carried by multiple people.

A parent of one of the attendees told WSB that the police told her that they just arrested everyone because no one would admit to the drugs being theirs.

Some of the attendees further told the station that police were overly aggressive with everyone, threatening to tase people and tying people up with zip ties. A few male attendees claim that police didn't book them normally, but locked them in cages at the precinct. One pregnant attendee alleges that she suffered verbal abuse at the hands of the police and was mistreated by officers at the station.

"I was throwing up water," she said. "The whole saying 'innocent until proven guilty' went out the window. They told me I was an unfit person to have a baby."

The youngest person arrested was only 15-years-old; the oldest was 31. 

Several lawyers representing those arrested are now involved in the case, and the NAACP is stepping in to lend a hand as well.

All told, WSB's investigation found that police seized less than an ounce of marijuana.

 

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