Full quote is, "I smell a cop trying to justify..." You'd already outed yourself as a LEO, I'm outing you as someone trying to work his way around to feeling good about the fact that his actions are on the wrong side of the Constitution and it's Founding principles.
I'd be delighted to be wrong on this one, but you've got "wanna-be Storm Trooper" plastered all over your posts...
and yes the constitution guards against unreasonable search and seizure. i, and the law, however see this circumstance as very reasonable.
overzealous? perhaps. but that is not for me to decide. i wasn't there. it seems many posters on this thread were there, though.