“Brian McClarin, a narcotics officer, had directed the traffic stop.”
So the traffic stop was just a means to stop the car. She was stopped for failure to signal on a lane change.
This is the reason i want to gut the traffic laws. They are abused over and over again to generate searches. Traffic laws are used to make sure that LEO can bypass probable cause. They use the traffic laws to make the initial stop, then fabricate a chain of incidents (k-9, furtive look, smell, obscure behavior, butt clenching, whatever) to take the incident further. You need to de-claw the city where you live. De-fund local law enforcement and clamp down on the border. That will never happen. The goal is to get everyone periodically checked through the national crime databases. That takes stops.
So the silly woman had coke on her. Now she is dead. What is the value delivered to society?
So drugs pour over the intentionally unsecured borders and citizens are killed, harassed, dragged into court for possession of a substance that should not even make it into the country.
I didn’t understand why they put the women in the back of their car for a simple traffic stop. I thought they usually left you sitting in your car while they did a check.