To: Henrietta
"I imagine it was his belligerent, uncooperative attitude coupled with suspicious behaviour that gave them just cause." That still wouldn't be just cause to detain him. Being uncooperative is not a crime.
Oops, you ignored the "acting suspicious" part...
77 posted on
03/25/2003 4:50:42 PM PST by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: ez
"Oops, you ignored the "acting suspicious" part..."
The police have to articulate what about his behavior is or was suspicious.
According to the Supreme Court, "[I]n justifying the particular intrusion, the police officer must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion."
I don't think that the taking of pictures in a public place, and asking about a funny box near a national monument is a specific and articulable fact which would reasonably justify the intrusion of the police on this guy's right to be left alone. You don't agree with me, but hey, it's a free country...or used to be!
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