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0 pointslazide3d ago0 comments

Shifted? Not at all. Merely articulated the specific mechanisms.

As you note - my original point stands, and is correct.

It’s difficult to come up with ‘weird’ or ‘suspicious’ behavior that isn’t going to be reasonable suspicion of something, and that is by design.

Or we could just go to disturbing the peace or loitering eh?

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wat100003d ago· 2 in thread

It's trivial. Playing the bagpipes while riding a unicycle. Very weird and unusual but not reasonable suspicion of anything.

I'm happy to come up with a dozen more if you lack imagination.

Similarly, there's plenty of non-weird, non-unusual behavior that legally justifies a traffic stop, such as exceeding the speed limit or rolling through a stop sign.

lazideOP3d ago

Have you ever tried it in public, except in perhaps a college town or another handful of special places or circumstances?

Because you’d definitely get threatened with disturbing the peace, entertaining without a license, or be evaluated for public intoxication or drug use anywhere else.

People generally get speeding or traffic tickets when they stick out.

You have this weird overconfident naïveté about how the world actually works. Let me guess, 20 something white male, college educated, lives in SF or NYC? Loving parents who are still together?

How many did I get?

wat100003d ago

You got one (college educated). Congrats.

I specifically mentioned that police don’t necessarily follow the law here. So I don’t know where you get the idea that I’m naive about how the world works. Police might hassle you, but that doesn’t mean it’s legal for them to do so.

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