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Respect law enforcement?! Respect them when they're wrong and ignorant of the law?! I submit we need to teach respect for the constitution and the rule of law to everyone, including those in law enforcement. Quoting Justice White in TERRY v. OHIO, 392 U.S. 1 (1968): http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=392&invol=1 "There is nothing in the Constitution which prevents a policeman from addressing questions to anyone on the streets. Absent special circumstances, the person approached may not be detained or frisked but may refuse to cooperate and go on his way. However, given the proper circumstances, such as those in this case, it seems to me the person may be briefly detained against his will while pertinent questions are directed to him. Of course, the person stopped is not obliged to answer, answers may not be compelled, and refusal to answer furnishes no basis for an arrest, although it may alert the officer to the need for continued observation." Dave [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by coldguy But I have some words for many of you amateur lawyers. You sould take the advice of the few wise posters here who are urging you to respect law enforcement. Don't think that because you are able to qoute a few lines of the constitution that you are invincible. If a police officer thinks you are acting suspiciosly, they have probable cause to stop and question you. Be polite, stop taking pictures, and answer their questions. If they tell you to put away the camera, put it away. If they tell you to leave, then leave. Don't start a civil rights rally right then and there, because you will lose. If you're a jerk and argue with an officer, they can cite you for any number of misdemearors, most commonly, loitering. Get a little loud and you're disturbing the peace. Use profanities and you're disorderly. Flip them off or spit in their general direction and you've just assaulted a police officer. Put up a fight, and you're resisting arrest. You get where I'm going here? You don't know all the information about why that officer is there. There may have been a previous incident of vandalism or some other crime at the place where you happen to be, just taking pictures. You may have accidently wandered onto private property, and someone called. Do you really want to spend some time in a squad car, or holding cell, or get maced, or taserd, over some pictures? Exercise some common sense! [/quote]
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