White vans are probable cause? What about "blue shirts"? Or "black hair"? Are they also probable cause?
A "white van with MD plates starting with the combo XYZ" would be probable cause. A white van absent any other details clearly is not.
And I'm not buying the fact those people were on the ground solely because they were driving white vans.
The 1:00AM press conference last night addressed this. A man was handcuffed and taken for questioning solely because his vehicle fit a particular description, according to the police spokesman.
And I'd bet money that if they did nothing, you'd be the first one here, carping about the police not doing their job. Face it, there is nothing they can do that will satisfy you.
From a smarter Freeper than I could ever hope to be:
To: Freeper 007
The forth amendment bans unreasonable search and seizure.
With 12 people shot and more likely to be shot, stopping every vehicle in the area for search and or seizure is not unreasonable.
The 4th amendment does not bar searching every possible suspect in a crime, it bars searches of people who could not be suspects. Unless you can show that you could not be a suspect in these crimes, the cops would be derelict if they did not search everyone until they catch the killer.
Serial killers make searches of all people who could be the killer reasonable and idiots who can't read what the words on the constitution say look like the stupid fools they are.
4 posted on 10/20/02 12:01 AM Eastern by Common Tator