"And also that the cop in this case was way out of line."
Yeah, he really trampled the kid's rights, didn't he ?
"Where ya headin tongight?"
"I don't want to tell you"
"Ok, pullover and get out of the car."
That cop is a real jackbooted thug lol. Sometimes people on this board are every bit as absurd as liberals. Come back to me when somebody's rights are truely violated. The punk was asking for trouble and he had to 1)be incovenienced while he got out of his car 2)a minor delay while they checked his information...Now is Stalin's Soviet he get gets either shot or imprisoned...In Hitler's German he get's sent to a work camp, or beat up...but hear in Jackbooted America he really gets worked over with having to step out of his car while the officer runs his info.
Get a life people.
Please show me where it is in the enumerated powers of the government of the state of Missouri to compel citizens to disclose their comings and goings, and reasons for comings and goings, absent probable cause that the citizen in question has committed a criminal act.
Hi everyone. I'm Brett Darrow, the driver, and one who filmed this.
I thought I'd address a few things.
The camera is ALWAYS rolling while I drive my car at night now and most of the time during the day. The reason for this is because I've had my rights trampled numerous times even while kissing a$$. I've also had officers just make up reasons to stop me (straight up lie about what I did) because I was young, it was late, and they were looking to search a car without probable cause. I've tried asserting my rights, but have been threaten with arrest (like I was here) and told it would be the officers' word vs. mine. IMO the camera is the only way to get any court (or anyone for that matter) to believe you over the [sarcasm] all so trust worry police officers out on the street now. [/sarcasm]
I just don't want people to think I went out looking for this checkpoint to start trouble. This one was about 2 miles from my house. I travel this road frequently and I really didn't expect to come across it.
And to the people who say I should just make up a reason... Why? Lying to a police officer is a crime. We should NEVER have to lie or commit a crime so we don't have to assert our rights because we're afraid of punishment from the police. You can say all you want about how the officer didn't really want to know where I was going. That doesn't change anything. If I can follow the law, he should be able to do the same. He knew I wasn't intoxicated and if he thought I was, what better way to show it than give me a field sobriety test.
I'd also like to know how I could have said I didn't want to tell the officer where I was going in a nicer way. I didn't even expect him to ask such a question.
I know there will be haters, but I think those people are just ignorant of what's happening around us.
I will never kiss a$$ or act like the cops are God (and I shouldn't have to) at a unconstitutional (unfortunately legal) checkpoint which I'm stopped while not doing one thing wrong. I'm not a criminal and I don't expect to be treated like one while doing my normal legal activities out in public. With the hundred of driving laws, if they can't find one I've violated, leave me the Fcuk alone!