• @jpreston2005
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    -175 months ago

    when everyone and their mother has a gun in the U.S., and you’re hiding behind heavily tinted windows, then yes, it is a safety issue. It’s not an unreasonable request to keep your window rolled down during a traffic stop.

    • @SmilingSolaris
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      165 months ago

      Don’t take the job if you ain’t willing to take a bullet over a traffic stop. That’s the job. You don’t get to violate rights for your own safety. Your safety is secondary as a cop. If you can’t handle that fact of the position then you would be a shit cop.

      Pizza delivery drivers have a higher chance to get shot than a fucking cop and yet you don’t hear pizza drivers capping people left and right for their own safety. So I don’t wanna hear your bullshit.

      Die for that traffic stop pig. You wanted the badge without the risk.

      • @Kbobabob
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        -65 months ago

        You don’t get to violate rights for your own safety.

        Are we still talking about the window? How did telling him to roll his opaque window down violate his rights?

        • @Cenzorrll
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          45 months ago

          Because it isn’t a lawful order. License and registration are all that’s required for a traffic stop. If the officer had probable cause that a crime had been committed, then it would be a lawful order, but they didn’t. Therefore, his rights were violated.

          • @Kbobabob
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            15 months ago

            I guess having an adult conversation isn’t something you’re accustomed to.

      • @jpreston2005
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        15 months ago

        it’s actually a bigger safety issue if the cops can order you to lower your window

        most inane take I’ve read about this interaction

          • @FarmTaco
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            15 months ago

            But they can’t have it both ways.

            Per famous case law, finders v keepers.

            wild logic.

          • @jpreston2005
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            05 months ago

            If they let you stay in the car, they’ve already decided you probably aren’t going to grab a gun from under the seat. So there’s no safety issue for them.

            Dude, you aren’t making a lick of sense. Google “officer shot during traffic stop” and tell me again that keeping your window rolled down during a traffic stop is unreasonable.

            crack the window as necessary, get out when ordered

            two things he refused to do? What are you talking about, dude?