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http://www.leadercall.com/local/local_story_141102947.html
Crew airs grievance on Fox News
http://www.leadercall.com/local/local_story_139110004.html
Civil rights violation?
http://motorhomediaries.com/
MHD on Freedom Watch
“Free State of Jones” Mississippi ping
I hope it does get legs...
I, for one, want to see people acting under color of law/office held accountable.
They’ll never forget the day they crossed.....The Macon County Line!
I’m wondering if the responses on this thread would change if the 3 were muslims with video cameras.
I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life and have never ever had any problems what so ever. Just be polite, answer the questions honestly and nobody gets choked out. In this case it seems as though you have a load of “I know my rights man” people pushing the buttons of the cops. If dipshit wasn’t sticking a camera into the cops face this would have been over real quick.
I’ve been stopped for speed racing on a state highway, with an open container and still walked away with a warning, and no they didn’t ID everyone in the car or choke anyone out either. Just be poilte, works every time, you wanna smart ass up on a cop? Hope you like taking showers with big hairy men!
Too bad the LEO didn’t smack Jason around a little. Then he would have been...wait for it...patience...
A Talley whacker!
A clear case of official oppression.
They’ll have a good case.
I was stopped once by three county deputies (in Jackson Co., MS) with guns drawn. I nearly messed my pants! Seems someone with a similar car had robbed a bank. I’m sure the look of sheer terror and bewilderment on my face put the officers at ease. I showed my ID answered their questions and went on my way.
I grew up in Jones County and also attended school with Alex Hodge. If these three had simply answered the questions and complied with the officers demand for ID, more than likely nothing would have come of this. I-59 is a major drug smuggling route. There have been many significant busts there, as well as violent confrontations with drug runners. Having a ‘paper tag’ for 6 months is also illegal in MS. That in and of itself is reason for the cops to be suspicious.
Moral: Don’t mouth off to the cops for any reason. If you have nothing to hide, don’t be a smart ass. Cops today have a very dangerous job. Despite your ‘rights’ let them look around in the car and be done with it.
Since they were simply passing through, the beer possession would probably have garnered nothing more than a warning.
Sounds like Jason and his traveling companions are living the good life, riding all over the country, talking to folks, taking pictures. I’d like that “job” anyday.
Where do I sign up?
Sorry to disagree with most of the comments here but, if a cop asks you to do something, you do it, especially something as petty as providing identification. If you don't, then you're asking for trouble, and you'll get no sympathy from me. That doesn't mean I agree with what the cop did. Maybe I do, maybe I don't. I don't however, think the order to provide ID was out of line.
The people that pull these sort of shenanigans with he cops are kind of like people who go into a restaurant with the purpose of finding fault so they can get a free meal.
Brings back memories, I have been stopped a few time in dry counties on a booze hunt.
Most annoying was in Senatobia, when I pulled off the interstate to get gas at the truck stop, filled up and started back to the interstate. The city cop stopped me and told me to get out and open the trunk. There was nothing at all in the trunk, except the spare, but looked all though it and inside my car. A state cop pulled off the interstate and drove up. He went over and talked to the city cop and then came over to me and told me to go on my way.
I once had a bottle of “Old Charter Ten” taken by a campus cop at MSU. I came back to my car and found a note to go the cop shop, I went found out they had taken my bottle. I explained that I was going to give it to a professor, with whom I was going to have dinner that night. They told me, okay we will see that he get it, he never did.