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The top post is the kind of over-the-top comment that comes from a position of privilege of someone who has clearly never actually had to deal with law enforcem
by gamblor956 5y ago
The top post is the kind of over-the-top comment that comes from a position of privilege of someone who has clearly never actually had to deal with law enforcement in a situation like this before.
I have, as a lawyer, and as a regular civilian interacting with the police. You do not have to let the cops scan your face. Refusing to be searched, or scanned, or taken to the station will not get you killed. It will not get you beat up. It will not get you sent to jail.
In fact, if you consent to letting them scan your face, (or search you or your belongings, etc) there won't be a "grievance process," there won't be a pot of gold, there won't be a voided conviction (if they found anything)...because you consented.
Comments like the OPs get people in trouble. Seriously.
- Spivak 5y agoYou’re talking about two different things and you’re both right. You should absolutely assert your rights and refuse any scans, searches, what have you. HOWEVER if the officer doesn’t honor your refusal and does it anyway you risk death by doing anything that obstructs them even if technically you have the right to.
- gamblor956 5y agodoes it anyway you risk death by doing anything that obstructs them. This is simply FUD being spread by someone who knows absolutely nothing about what he's talking about. Police in the U.S. aren't all like the ones you "see on TV." That's the 0.1% of the bad cops being used to define all cops. Unless you're okay with everyone thinking that all programmers are sacks of shit because of the 0.1% that are cryptocurrency scam artists?