ThirdWheelWanted -> RE: R.I.P. 4th Amendment (5/1/2014 12:34:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: chatterbox24 My step nephews truck was pulled over by an anonymous call with plates, the report was the vehicle was waving a gun at passers on the interstate. He had his daughter with him. They had them lay along side of the road, and his 14 year old daughter to search the vehicle. No gun was found. Considering the job he does, that would be the bad apple call. A vengeful call. Now who was responsible for that injustice? The caller or the police. So your step nephew could have been shot, and he and his daughter were put down on the ground while their vehicle was searched, all because the police were allowed to use an anonymous tip as evidence. And you still think that's reasonable? Yes, the caller was clearly the instigator, but it wouldn't be an issue if anonymous reports were given the weight they deserve, which is basically nothing. If you recall from my post I said that would be an example of a bad apple call. A vengeful call, and yes it was way over the top and abusive. SO not only was the call wrong, the police were wrong. My step nephew usually carries a gun too, but he didn't have it on him, in fact he had just forgot it that day. Lucky for him. That would be an example of corruption. No it wasn't reasonable. Do you think he just sat on his hands and said whoops, not hardly. Yes, you did say that this was a vengeful call, while still defending the use of anonymous tips. You wrote an entire post that basically boiled down to What's the big deal? If you're not doing anything wrong and your nose is clean why be worried about being pulled over? Well being yanked from your car at gunpoint, with your daughter, and being made to lay on the ground while your car is searched, is the big deal. I assume that your nephew was a legal, his nose was clean, so he just had a bit of an interruption in his day, right? That shouldn't be a concern, right? What does the rest of this have to do with the issue at hand? What difference does it make if he just sat on his hands or not? He was still targeted by the police because of an anonymous tip. Had they not been allowed to act on such tips, then your nephew wouldn't have suffered through what he did. As you pointed out, what if he had been carrying that day? Odds are, he would have been arrested, possibly charged and convicted. All because an anonymous someone said that he was waving a gun around. Seems wrong to me, but you seem perfectly willing to accept it in other circumstances.
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