An amazing confrontation with cops by a group of women
This is a very good example of how a group of informed women can use the power of peaceful resistance to affect a desired outcome.
This is just one skirmish in a very large war against the abuses by the police. But focus on the faces of the police officers. They know they are defeated and the women confronting them are correct in their assessment of what is happening under the guise of just another traffic stop.
These abuses happen everywhere and it is not about the color of a person's skin!! If the cops have someone they think is too smart (with today's cops that doesn't take too much) they will hound them until they catch them doing "something". We have so many laws, they can even arrest a parent pulling children in a wagon down the street (the play toy law!!), usually this is saved to bust a kid with a skate board!! They keep this up and soon the kids have a "record" and will not be able to get a job, and then will have to do crime to live. Another step of Jim Crow and closer ot into the highly profittable, for the government, the 1%, prison!!!
Even if the police is going to search anyway, citizens need to exercise their rights by not consenting.
Not consenting will stop some searches cold and even if some contraband is found, if the a search is done without probable cause, the lack of consent stands a good chance of having that evidence thrown out in court.
Cop says he smells weed, how are you going to argue at the time?
The answer is that you cannot.
They will create probably cause or claim it if they want and though it may be thrown out, they will fuck up your day and maybe even "find" some planted evidence.
5. There's nothing to stop the cops from creating probable cause, they do it all the time
They may even conduct the search without consent. The only defense is to never consent, even in the face of threats and the planting of evidence. Don't argue, merely tell them that you're not consenting.
The cop may search anyway, but that consent (or the lack thereof) could mean a throw out case.
Dealing with asshole cops is just an occupational hazard of being a person of color in this country.
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