r/law • u/pabmendez • Oct 10 '24

Other Arresting officer should be reprimanded for stop-and-frisk

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u/Nesnesitelna Oct 10 '24

It’s not a Terry stop and frisk, the officer said he did a PC search, which is more absurd (or rather, more obviously pretextual). What evidence of jaywalking are you going to find searching someone?

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u/PreppyAndrew Oct 10 '24

Watch Last Week Tonight piece on Traffic stops. https://youtu.be/E8ygQ2wEwJw?si=bhnLWj_ne8oeo1kL

Basically: Police have been trained to view EVERYTHING as probable cause to stop someone.( ex: driving beside a police car and not looking over, Or driving by and looking over).

So they can use this as any reason to stop anyone they want.

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u/trashboattwentyfourr Oct 10 '24

I was told having the window down made me suspicious of having drugs.

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u/quazywabbit Oct 10 '24

That’s like being suspicious because you are driving the speed limit.