The police have to have probable cause to stop a vehicle and detain a person.
But they can talk to a person and ask questions.
A person can choose not to answer.
City police will stop a suspicious vehicle and say right off the bat I stopped you because you
crossed the traffic line back there, or your light is out. That is probable cause.
Right away they will tell you that is their probable cause.
From that point on at the very least they are doing a dui investigation and writing a book that
they are preparing to throw at you.
These Federal police are not expecting resistance so
from the get go they are not announcing their probable cause.
When the driver resist and the police see they are on camera,
they have to back down.
For the police to put up a dui road block in Florida. They have to announce
in the newspaper a week in advance where the road block will be.
So people can choose a differnt route.
If they choose to go by the road block, then they have to stop
and answer questions, how they answer the questions may lead to a field sobriety test.
Or a search of their vehicle.
The person making the video apparently has the right to do as he did,
not answer their questions.
We pick and choose our battles.
The country has a problem with illegal aliens.
The government in this instance appears to be trying to do something about it.
But I guess they can't really do anything unless they have probable cause.
The cops are counting on most people not knowing the law.
In some respects their hands are tied.
They cant just go out and stop mexicans because that would be racial profiling.
They cant be given a directive to do that because that would be racial profiling.
If they stop someone for crossing the line or equipment failure then they can stop them and
start investigating.
This is probably why we have such an illegal immigrant problem.
We dont want to give up our rights and freedoms because of it.
If the problem gets to bad the government can declare marshall law and then we will
loose our freedoms
I don't want that.
Maybe the government could raid and arrest houses full of illegal hispanics.
But people will complain about that also.
I think that would be better than hassling law abbiding citizens.
It seems like the government could do some undercover work and find houses full of illegal
imigrants and that would solve this problem.
But it comes back to racial profiling again and the aclu.
How do you find a house full of illegal mexicans without racial profiling?
It is rediculous.
Why do you have to stop
Germans and Irish to find Illlegal mexicans?
Why does every body at the airport have to be searched to find muslim arab terrorist?
I think things will go on like this until someone brings in a dirty bomb or something like
that and then we will all loose our civil liberties.
