The colour of law
Police in Illinois confiscated an urn containing the ashes of two-year-old Ta'Naja Barnes—or Davis, I'm not sure which—after pulling her father over for traffic offences. They claimed that the urn tested postive in a field test for meth.
"Apparently this is his daughter's ashes," one of the officers says, adding that the substance inside had tested positive for meth. He later decides not to retest the contents of the urn, and returns the ashes to Mr Barnes' father, who was also at the scene. "The test, it field tested for meth," the officer says to Mr Barnes. [snip] Field drug tests are not always reliable.
Field tests are unreliable? No shit!
Elsewhere, though, the BBC News droid raised my pedantry hackles:
In a court filing, lawyers for the officers said that the police "were acting within the scope of their employment and under colour [sic] of law".
Americans cannot spell colour
, Auntie Beeb. Given that this was a court filing, and therefore presumably written, you have one too many letters there. Do try to keep up!