The happy couple in happier times
Posted on 09/14/2014 3:34:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
Thank you. There is nothing indecent or provocative about what she is wearing.
No it was not. Neither kissing in a car while dressed or appearing homeless (which she does not) give rise to the police having probable cause or even reasonable suspicion warranting an I.D. check.
Head meet desk. For a site that prides itself on the value of liberty and freedom I’m right amazed at your response.
Seriously! Wearing a white tee-shirt and baggy shorts on a sunny Sunday afternoon counts as dressing like a prostitute now? Wow! When did that happen? I was dressed like a prostitute all yesterday afternoon and so was my wife and my kids too, and I had no idea!
Has someone just recruited the Taliban to Free Republic? What would you allow her to wear? A burka?
The happy couple in happier times
Does “Stop and Identify” mean tell the police who you are or does it mean produce identification? There is a difference and I’m curious.
That is really reaching. At what point was the cop ever in any kind of perceived danger?
I am afraid you are on to a loser here my friends.
Too many posters here find the concept of “free” and “republic” to be way too complicated for them.
You see that silly document called the Constitution only applies to them and people who look like them and dress like them and think like them and vote like them and agree with them.
It doesn’t apply to a black woman wearing, you know extremely slutty clothes like, er, a white tee-shirt and baggy shorts on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
George III would have loved some of the posters here.
Hee,hee, and applause.
I don’t know how intense the kisses were. I wasn’t there and I assume you weren’t either. It could have been out of the norm for the area. Conversely, it could have been the norm for the area for certain people, if you catch my drift.
My objection was to a headline I saw on another site that said...”Whatever Her Name Is (black) arrested for kissing white husband.”
That is pretty absurd. This isn’t 1950.
Why have you addressed this to me? Did you not comprehend my post? I thought I was quite clear in asking about the lack of Probable Cause.
As long as they were not engaging in sexual activity (which does not include just kissing no matter how passionate) the police had no probable cause or reasonable suspicion that she was engaged in a criminal activity.
Then again,,,, maybe I was to quick about responding! Perhaps I didn’t comprehend your post at first quick reading? Perhaps I’m getting touchy, having received a couple posts that clearly didn’t “comprehend” mine. Sorry if that’s the case!
WE must tell the cop our name. WE do NOT have to show ID.
The Nevada Supreme Court has interpreted that “identify himself” to mean to merely state his name. As of April 2008, 23 other states[2] have similar laws.
Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, 542 U.S. 177 (2004), held that statutes requiring suspects to disclose their names during police investigations did not violate the Fourth Amendment if the statute first required reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal involvement. Under the rubric of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the minimal intrusion on a suspect’s privacy, and the legitimate need of law enforcement officers to quickly dispel suspicion that an individual is engaged in criminal activity, justified requiring a suspect to disclose his or her name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_District_Court_of_Nevada
Because you appeared to be, and I apologise if I misunderstood your post, defending Ms Watts’ constitutional right not to be harassed by law-enforcement officers, and I have found that on this site to do so often provokes comments from other posters to the effect that
“She’s a black woman, she dresses like a whore, she deserved it”
If I misunderstood your position and you do in fact believe that it was justifiable to arrest this woman for exercising her constitutional right to 4th Amendment protection then you’re right, I shouldn’t have included you.
No problem, we are on the same page.
So it comes down to the fcat that she's black?
Btt
I could see the fashion police issuing them a ticket.../s
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