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45 I'm doing 45 and you came by me all right you were obviously passing me about 10 miles over to
be impacted so also your window tint's too dark where are you headed to today
I tend to uh this dude's just as nervous as can be I'm gonna pull them up
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welcome back to the civil rights lawyer Channel I think you're really going to like this video it
shows a traffic stop in Richland Mississippi and this is similar to the one I posted two
weeks ago in Texas where the narcotics officer had apparently gotten some sort of training on
target indicators and he could figure out who was some big drug Smuggler but in reality he's just
harassing law-abiding citizens I think that's what you'll see here but take a look at the footage and
then we'll talk about the Constitutional law and the facts of this case my concern is that you are
about to suck all the oxygen out of the air right now because you're breathing so heavy all right
you're so nervous so why why would you be why would you be extremely or overly nervous with
me for a separate traffic sign okay have you ever been arrested before or anything like that yeah
okay you mind if I asked before you can't get in trouble for telling me I'm scared remember
I mean I had DUI 20 years ago about it okay all right
uh when's the last time you were arrested do you remember that uh
now it's been probably 20 years 20 years how do you about anything 19.99 anything narcotics
related at all no do you wear glasses or contacts uh contacts okay are those colored contacts or
your eyes always that kind of grayish glassy a little bit classy green uh eyes or whatever
green eyes okay are you under the influence of any narcotics or alcohol today okay you're asking me
why I'm nervous that's because I was kind of upset you're asking me where I'm going and where I live
and I don't think that I'm allowed I don't have to enter you absolutely don't it's just casual
conversation so do you have anything illegal in the car today or not I don't have nothing there
either okay so there's nothing would you mind if I look no you may not look it may not unless you
have a search warrant okay I don't but okay I'm simply asking I mean your pupils you're not going
to open up the trunk I can open the doors up but I don't want you to go in and look through my car
okay because it's I don't feel like I have to and you absolutely don't I'm simply see in my
line of work what I do is I love doing this okay I love working in Narcotics and you're giving
off a lot of precursors that could potentially lead up to narcotics I'm not saying that you do
and I'm not saying that you don't if you don't don't have anything I don't have any narcotics
I don't know I didn't say that you're blowing at the mouth you're asking me why I'm nervous
I mean what's the next step are you just simply a ticket for uh speeding or what that's to be
determined I haven't made my money how do I look like I have narcotics I didn't say you look like
you had narcotics I said you were just saying indicators what are you saying I have pupils
I'm nervous I mean I was upset because you're asking me where I'm going that was just casual
conversation so here's the deal look I'm not going to sit here and argue I'm not I'm not
I'm not going to argue with you okay I'm simply asking you what you like to do do you want me to
open the trunks do you want me to I just ask if you find if I look you don't have to you can tell
me now all day long but the next thing I have uh suspicion of Narcotics or something got it
I mean you're welcome to look there's absolutely nothing in here okay absolutely nothing would
you mind if I look in the pool I give you uh the permission to view what's in my car
but okay are you allowed to just search my car without a search warrant I mean
there's a few different ways that I can probable cause okay which I'm just asking you for example
probable cause can you please explain to him what the problem I didn't say there was I just
said you said I had you're just getting defensive with me for asking common questions all right I'm
just doing my job I'm doing what's called a Patrol investigation okay is this your wife's
girlfriend my fiance my girlfriend okay okay for five years okay well congratulations you know I'm
just asking you several questions ma'am would you be willing to step out and speak with me out here
possibly less of aggressive as he is that would be lovely okay so my name is Sergeant Holyfield
with the Richland Police Department the reason y'all you remember me that's
a Belgium I'm sorry I don't remember you have we ever had a negative interaction before
okay so when you called did I show up and help you as best that you thought I probably could okay all
right do you have any indication of me ever being rude ugly too assertive aggressive not to me okay
all right well I'm glad you feel that way so thank you I appreciate that I'm asking simple questions
hey how you doing how your mom and them where are you coming from where are you headed to all right
I'm not doing this to pry into your life to have any sort of privatized information of what you're
doing I don't care what y'all are doing okay but I have a goal in mind okay how long have you known
it we've been together has he been interested arrested in the six years that y'all have been
together no never in trouble or anything like that he lives in Madison as he lived over there the
whole time yeah has he ever been known to you to use uh uh abuse prescription medications you smoke
marijuana any any heroines myths anything like that okay and say that that's all I'm looking for
just casual conversation all right there there are indicators leading me up to this question
so I want to remind you of this all right the window tint is darker than the legal limit it's
28 the legal limit is 28 that's along the lines of five percent okay there's no way
possible that from where I was I knew he was with a black woman I didn't even know he was
a white guy so that's irrelevant to me they don't have the right to search my car you got defensive
with me for doing my job okay I stop don't interrupt me again please have any smells uh
the only thing I have are behavioral indicators at this point and his wife her fiance actually
remember her or I don't really but she says that we have contact been in contact with each other
um Dollar General so she's all right with me she's okay with me she likes me but he does not
well yeah I know but I mean I know timeline wise you know constitutionality how long are
we going to be able what's a reasonable amount of time which I think I think we don't have a
dog available no I saw all right I got a guy stop and he's uh I don't know I got a warm and
fuzzy on it brother but he uh he uh he shut down on me and uh I got defensive and I don't
have any like physical indicators but due to his behavioral indicators are just skyrocketed and uh
I think there's something here he's just shutting me down I don't have enough I don't think I have
enough right now to go any further with it than I can so I was looking for a dog
he says I'm a [ __ ] or I'm an [ __ ] or whatever he says I'm whatever but uh yeah all because I
started asking him common like investigative questions like hey man you know where you come
from where you headed to and uh uh he's just like I don't have to tell you that [ __ ] I was like
man I'm just asking you some questions fella you should do two citations today one for Speed and
ten over one for window tint maybe court date of March 29th you have on that day they're up to it
to pay for citations they will gladly rearrange or make a payment plan if you'd rather do that if
you no call no show a warrant will be issued for your arrest and we'll just come pick you up okay
thank you foreign
oh boy so where do I begin with this one I mean these scenarios just drive me up the wall so the
officer sort of understands what the law is here he's he's a know-it-all type he thinks he knows
everything but he doesn't he doesn't know a damn thing yeah he can hold somebody at a traffic stop
for a reasonable amount of time so he pulled the guy over for speeding he has a reasonable amount
of time to go through the process of getting his documentation and running his license plate and
writing him a ticket for speeding and instead of doing that he's like that guy in Texas who thinks
he's smarter than he really is and he thinks that this could be some big drug guy some big
drug Smuggler and he is going to solve the case because he's just so smart he pulls him over for
speeding and 30 minutes is going by and he hasn't done a damn thing related to the tasks of giving
somebody a speeding ticket a routine traffic stop he is treating this like a drug investigation
while admittedly he has no Reasonable Suspicion he keeps using the phrase probable cause what he
needs is reasonable suspicion that this guy could be smuggling drugs that he could have
narcotics in his car that he could be intoxicated on narcotics he has none of that he's just trying
to develop it out of thin air meanwhile he is not doing any of the tasks normally associated with a
traffic stop for speeding and that's exactly what the U.S Supreme Court has said that he's allowed
to do and he's given a reasonable amount of time to do those things usually can somebody be ordered
out of a car during a traffic stop yes if there's some articulable officer safety reason for doing
so unlike what a lot of police officers think it's not just an automatic thing if there's some reason
related to officer safety task him out of the car then he can't same thing with the passenger but
he can't just order them out of the car and and go on a fishing expedition to see if maybe his hunch
could be correct that this guy could be some sort of a drug Smuggler and you know what if you look
at the part where he pulls the guy's fiance out of the car and he starts questioning her I think
she's exactly right she says that they had been pulled over in the neighboring jurisdiction they
believed because he's a white man with a black woman and I think that although this officer
couldn't see that when he pulled them over when he gets up to the window he can see who's in the
passenger side and I think that is his hunch I I I really do I think that's what it is he doesn't
see somebody's five-year or six year fiance he sees some sort of drug activity or or something
else going on here that is his hunch that he will not admit and that's why he pulls her out of the
car separately and he starts to question her of course police officers that engage in that sort of
um racial profiling and discrimination they know they're at least smart enough not to
admit that the questions being asked generally if you're pulling somebody
over for a traffic stop you can ask some limited questions about where are you going
um where are you coming from things of that nature but and if unless there's some indication that
narcotics could be involved that does not mean that they get to then interrogate the individual
about whether they're a drug dealer so just like the video from two weeks ago the game
that they're playing is just perform a regular traffic stop under under the pretext that they're
actually going to conduct a drug investigation and then they stall for this this drug dog scam
to show up and pretend like the dog knows that there's drugs in the car and uh but they can't
do that here because there's no drug Dog available because he does not have probable cause to search
this guy's car he keeps asking him for consent to search his car what do you need for consent
you need voluntary consents and here this sky does not give voluntary consent and the officer keeps
saying yeah but you have the right to say no but then he also is attempting to coerce the guy into
believing that he has no choice but to say yes and at one point he even says well I don't know
if I'm going to give you a speeding ticket yet I haven't determined yet you know it depends on your
behavior if you let me search your car you let me do all these things I say you have a right to say
no to then I may not give you a traffic stop so it's coercion this guy even offers to show him
inside the trunk of his car inside the carpet no he wants to be able to perform a search with no
boundaries and he had no right to do that and he had no consent to do that so at the end of the day
this guy did assert his rights he acted properly and he was very reasonable in getting angry with
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