Watch this video as a man, Andre Stockett, defends his rights at a routine traffic stop and police try everything they can to make him yield, even threatening to take their 2 week old baby to Child Protective Services, because he refused to show his ID.
Yes, this man could have shown his ID and perhaps avoided all the hooplah, but one should never be scared or to defend their rights, especially if they feel they might subject themselves to more of the same abuse if they do.
The incident happened in Sandusky, Ohio.
George McGee says:
“1) It’s obvious the real reason they were stopped is being a mixed race couple. This happens all the time in almost every state. White women with black men are pulled over frequently and checked for any violation the officer can invent just because the assumption is the woman is a prostitute.
2) the law in Ohio does require one identify oneself on request by the officer if he has any grounds for suspicion of a crime (any will do, they’re called a Terry Stop after the Terry v Ohio case that went to the Supreme Court about providing ID).
3) The officer was a jerk, the entire stop was clearly about harassing the people who were stopped, not about anything done wrong or crime being committed, the entire ‘crime’ assumption was fabricated for the purpose.
4) the citizen was also being a jerk, but with good reason, since he knew he was being harassed by the blue uniform for being black.
5) the threat to take the infant from the couple is grounds for a lawsuit since it amounts to an unlawful action of extortion and abuse of authority.
6) simply and politely explaining the correct interpretation of the Terry Stop law by a supervisor or the officer with a respectful tone should have helped defuse this, but it’s clear by the time anyone could have done so, it would not have. The officer had no grounds for approaching the passenger side at all.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/cop-threatens-take-baby-cps-legal-refusal-show-id/comment-page-4/#comment-574639
Idiot refuses idiot goes to jail.
thats ohio for you,, it always has been bought and payed for state
Eric says:
“Uh, the driver produced her drivers license as required by law and was determined to be valid. Unless they pulled her over for alleged DUI or OUID, smelled alcohol or dope emitting from the vehicle, seen dope or open containers in the vehicle or personally knew either the driver or passenger without identification and knew either to actually have a warrant? Everything after the initial stop, driver status check and vehicle registration and insurance check was WRONG. Not the most tactfull way of trying to prove his point on the passengers side, but, he wasn’t exactly legally wrong either. The jr. Police and his F.T.O should be recycled back through some schooling. Using the child as threat material to a new mother on what should have been a very routine traffic stop was WAY,WAY, over the line and really just goes to show how incompetent he is and how far ignorant people will go to try and save face when they are called out for being wrong. Cops can’t get by on people’s willful ignorance of their rights anymore. It’s a new day and more people are invoking their Constitutional rights, more now than ever.”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/cop-threatens-take-baby-cps-legal-refusal-show-id/comment-page-1/#comment-573595
I live in Indiana. The cops here are awsome! They do a good job keeping the streets safe. If you treat them with respect, they will treat you with respect. I am grateful for that!
no
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ-G-sAyABQ
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Show your ID. The police are protecting YOU. Idiot. However, if you want ISIS to come in and kill you, don’t show your ID.
I thought if a cop stops you you have to show ID regardless ????