Posted on 04/03/2018 5:47:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's easy to look at something AFTER it is over, to see what HAS occurred, but the HARD part is figuring out if a crime is ABOUT to occur; isn't it.
Do you know what the term, Probable Cause, means? Do you know what, Reasonable Articulable Suspicion is?
If a police officer approaches you and asks you to identify yourself, do you have to? No you don’t. You’re under no lawful or legal requirement to comply.
Can a police officer just walk up to a random person or pull over a random vehicle and demand to search them or it? No, they cannot, unless they can articulate that you did something illegal and had probable cause to search.
Probable Cause, is perhaps the most basic tenet of all interactions that police officers have with citizens, because without it, the police have absolutely no right to interact with you. You can simply ignore them. Or did you not know that?
It is also the foundation of the 4th Amendment.... no Warrants shall issue, but upon PROBABLE CAUSE, supported by Oath or affirmation
Any time that you ‘seize’ someone one or order them to do something, you have to have ‘probable cause’.
The Supreme Court decided that in cases where police were chasing someone, fighting someone, searching someone, shooting someone or any other action between a, police officer and citizen, the interaction is predicated on “probable cause”.
Instead of harping on with me, someone that knows what all of it means, do some f*cking research.
HARD part is figuring out if a crime is ABOUT to occur, isnt’ it.....That’s the only thing you’ve said that makes sense. You can’t make up the rules after the fact. Which is exactly what happened in this case. The cop, instead of figuring out if a crime had or was about to occur, shot her. That’s the hard part.
Done.....
And yet this same cop can observe you for a few minutes and; by golly; he'll see that you HAVE committed some type of crime.
"Golly your Honor; I was just talking to him for a few minutes and he started getting all fidgitty and nervous acting. His actions made me wonder if he was hiding something."
And yet; we seem to be able to u8nderstand what was 'really' going on in the situation; without being there.
It ain't harping to reasonably ask an officer what they had done in a similar situation when a person refused to do what they asked htem.
You seem to be getting fidgety and nervous.
Are you hiding something?
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