[potlatch]

Someone wrote this elsewhere and I don’t know if it is true or not;

“The 4th ammendment only protects against unreasonable search and seizure. In a federal case with a terrorist on the loose and in a containment zone they have the right to do this”

If someone knows differently, I’d appreciate a reply.

[muawiyah]

They were definitely in hot pursuit and we know that because they caught the guy right in the area where they said he had probably fled.

Also, what did the people in the video say about what was going on?

[sergeantdave]

A reasoned discussion about this matter is at this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3011207/posts

Some good info by a FReeper attorney and a retired cop.

[no-s]

they have the right to do this. If someone knows differently, I’d appreciate a reply.

Yeah, I've heard Government agents do not have a "right" to do their job. They are delegated authority and derive power from the just consent of the people who formed the government. We are the people in "we the people", and taking up employment as a government agent means you have relinquished some rights voluntarily, especially in case where it would conflict with the limits of the delegated authority.

Apparently Just an opinion...

[rcofdayton]

There an exception to getting a warrant called the emergency administrative search rule. But that would apply more if there were leaking gas in an area and immediate action were needed. Here one could argue the same should apply. First, ever, if they were searching for a terrorist, they had no right to search people who came out of the house, because none of them was the terrorist. Second, unlike leaking gas, the cops had no real information about where the terrorist was. I do not believe the emergency administrative exception applied here.