Here's another guy with a dash cam and a fair understanding of his rights under the US Constitution:
The problem here tho' is that the driver didn't demand Probable Cause. No matter what the cop says about roadblocks, the dragnet is extralegal. The cops have no authority to presume everybody's guilty (IMHO just so they can sift thru the population looking to collect a few bucks in fines because their budget's pretty tight again this year) None zero zip zilch nada.
The 2nd trooper yells about how driving's a privilege not a right, and that you're required to have your license and proof of insurance etc. But that's a dodge on his part. His in-your-face tactics are meant to intimidate in order to coerce your "voluntary" cooperation and deflect from the fact that his actions are outside the fucking lines. Anyway, the cops couldn't demonstrate why they suspected that particular driver of violating the law. Detention by law enforcement without probable cause is illegal.
OK, so how 'bout this one:
Somebody sees this guy walking down the street with his gun, and the cop shows up to "check him out". The rationale is that the cop just needs to make sure the gun's not stolen, but again, there's no reasonable expectation on the part of anybody that any laws have been broken. If Citizen Hung-Like-A-Hamster wants to press the issue, then he has no obligation to provide any information to the officer. He could've refused to allow the cop to record the serial number of his weapon, and he didn't have to give his name.
Connecting the dots - suddenly, we have the hippie-dippy ACLU groupies making common cause with the Ammosexuals and the Peter Pan Libertarians. Strange bedfellows indeed.
The problem here tho' is that the driver didn't demand Probable Cause. No matter what the cop says about roadblocks, the dragnet is extralegal. The cops have no authority to presume everybody's guilty (IMHO just so they can sift thru the population looking to collect a few bucks in fines because their budget's pretty tight again this year) None zero zip zilch nada.
The 2nd trooper yells about how driving's a privilege not a right, and that you're required to have your license and proof of insurance etc. But that's a dodge on his part. His in-your-face tactics are meant to intimidate in order to coerce your "voluntary" cooperation and deflect from the fact that his actions are outside the fucking lines. Anyway, the cops couldn't demonstrate why they suspected that particular driver of violating the law. Detention by law enforcement without probable cause is illegal.
OK, so how 'bout this one:
Somebody sees this guy walking down the street with his gun, and the cop shows up to "check him out". The rationale is that the cop just needs to make sure the gun's not stolen, but again, there's no reasonable expectation on the part of anybody that any laws have been broken. If Citizen Hung-Like-A-Hamster wants to press the issue, then he has no obligation to provide any information to the officer. He could've refused to allow the cop to record the serial number of his weapon, and he didn't have to give his name.
Connecting the dots - suddenly, we have the hippie-dippy ACLU groupies making common cause with the Ammosexuals and the Peter Pan Libertarians. Strange bedfellows indeed.
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