When we first reported that two Toronto cops had allegedly eaten weed edibles taken from a dispensary raid, some of you had a lot to say about Constable Vittorio Dominelli.
“Cop on the right can call me,” tweeted one reader in reference to Dominelli. “I want to be pulled over by the cop in the foreground,” wrote a Facebook commenter. Since then, a trove of the cop’s social media posts have surfaced, giving us a better idea of who this selfie-loving constable really is.
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Most notably, in a tragic self-parody, Constable Vittorio Dominelli, appears to have posted a selfie video set to “Because I Got High” by Afroman on his Twitter, Global News reports.
According to a report by NEWSTALK 1010, the cops made a classic noob mistake by allegedly eating more edibles when they didn’t feel them kicking in initially.
While many are having a laugh over the story, Jack Lloyd, a lawyer representing employees from Community Cannabis Clinic, told VICE it’s yet another example of Toronto police’s unreasonably harsh stance on dispensaries.
“Ultimately it goes to show how normalized dispensaries are and how the rhetoric that the product is untested is all hyperbole. Cops are comfortable eating it. How dangerous could it be?” he said.
He noted that, if the allegations are true, it shows Dominelli and his partner are “inexperienced cannabis users and didn’t have the benefit of speaking to the budtenders about how much they should consume.”
Lloyd said the city and police should stop enforcement against the medical cannabis community immediately.
In addition to the video Dominelli appears to have posted to the song “Because I Got High,” it seems he also posted a video of himself set to a version of a Bruno Mars track, “Versace on the Floor.” In the latter video, Dominelli is wearing a police uniform and sunglasses while crossing his arms in front of a cop car.
Police are still investigating Dominelli and his partner’s strange Sunday antics, and it’s not yet clear if they’ll be disciplined. But if they can’t even handle edibles, they may not be able to jump ship into the legal weed business like so many of their colleagues.
With files from Manisha Krishnan.
