Posted on 08/28/2013 5:02:28 PM PDT by Dacula
And a warrant. If you don't authorize them to search, they have to get a warrant. Yes, they will hold you while they get a warrant and they will thrash your vehicle.
/johnny
This woman just became my idol.
Border Patrol doesn’t need probable cause to stop and search any vehicle. All they need is for you to have crossed the border. They probably have some set of conditions, like within a few miles of the border on a road coming from the border, and they can just assume you crossed without witnessing it. Same with the Coast Guard and the 12-mile limit, by the way. Coming into a port from the ocean they can just assume you crossed the 12-mile limit.
That was scary! Kudos to the young gal for standing her ground................Times are a changing
Notice how the BP Supervisor tired to bully her when he first got there rather than asking his people what the problem was. When he asked them he found that the girl was right, they had no reason to detain her there. He should have asked first rather than trying to bully her. Good show gal
I’m speechless
They cannot search a car without probable cause. They cannot take someone into custody without probable cause.
I did some googling and it seems there are people doing what this video shows and recording the incidents. In every one I found, DHS eventually gives up and waives them through.
“Yes, they will hold you while they get a warrant and they will thrash your vehicle.”
Usually they will make you wait while they bring out a drug-sniffing dog. The dog will usually find something that gives them probable cause to search.
I liked her standing up to them.
They should forcibly arrest her for resisting arrest.
The citizen video gambit—bane of the ignorant LEO.
Not funny.
The driver is in the wrong because she does not have the authority to judge authority of the law enforcement officers.
They obeyed the law by not allowing her to pass without being inspected.
She can refuse the inspection by waiting outside the traffic lane and not impeding the traffic of others.
She also didn’t have to drive into the inspection area.
More importantly, by being unreasonable but always self-justifying her actions and thinking, she places the liberty and freedom of other law abiding citizens at risk by those law enforcement officers not nearly as patient as those in the video.
I’m surprised that they did not pull out the bogus probable cause for drugs after the dogs went around the car. I do not trust the police anymore; most especially the Federal police agencies. What’s to stop them from planting ‘evidence’ at a checkpoint? Maybe some of these guys are looking for high end cars and hoping that some of these people are carrying a decent amount of cash to plunder. That could be drug money, don’t ya know.
These guys are beginning to resemble the Mexican federales.
What a waste of agency time and effort. And we have to pay for this crap!
If you study the law enforcement blogs, and I do, it will be revealed to you that “law enforcement” is highly concerned about two things:
1. Getting home alive at night.
2. Collecting a pension.
By assessing that data, you will realize that these “law enforcement” personnel have no interest in dying on a hilltop for the glory of obuma.
Years ago I was driving across Wyoming on a beautiful, clear day and I literally had the highway to myself. Not a car in sight until a police car crossed the median. I looked at my speedometer and, yes, I was just about 10 miles over the speed limit. I apologized profusely, signed the paperwork. Then he started to ask me - repeatedly - if wanted to go to the the station. Kinda freaked my out. I just kept saying no. I continued on my trip and mailed the ticket in that night.
The Title "Department of Homeland Security" alone makes me gag.
They should forcibly arrest her for resisting arrest.
The check points they have in Texas are miles from the Border. They check those they think looks suspicious. Some of them look like they’re portable.
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