Which is why I recommend looking up at the highway billboard and tell Larry: “I’m calling my lawyer.”
It’s funny but in most major metropolitan areas, the local lawyers have someone on-call to deal with these issues.
My intelligent brother, refusing to a search, called a local lawyer at 1AM (from a billboard!) while waiting for the dogs. The legal-beagle sent an independent “witness” who arrived before the K9 unit. Impressive.
He was pulled-over for a burned-out license plate lamp. Larry asked to search, my brother asked, “Under what probable cause?” Larry replied, “Oh, you are one of those!”
Overall, Larry let my brother continue on his way. My brother tipped the witness $20 and paid the lawyer invoice of $50 by credit card at the location.
” He was pulled-over for a burned-out
license plate lamp. Larry asked to search,
my brother asked, “Under what probable
cause?” Larry replied, “Oh, you are one of
those!””
That is modern LE attitude about our rights and any concept of personal dignity. And the piglet still managed to cost him $70 and time over a fishing expedition.
More and more, I consider anyone who puts on a badge an automatic traitor to the principles of the Constitution, and no more worthy of respect than the people they claim to protect us from.