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Nah. Mouthing off to a cop doesn't make you a protected class. It would be illegal to only enforce the law against blacks. But just against people who shittalk
by rhino369 11y ago
Nah. Mouthing off to a cop doesn't make you a protected class.
It would be illegal to only enforce the law against blacks. But just against people who shittalk the cop is legally fine.
The 14th Amendment doesn't mean you have to be treated exactly the same. This is why cops are allowed to give you a warning.
- wtallis 11y agoProtected classes don't have much to do with the 14th amendment. It doesn't define any classes narrower than all citizens. Laws that do define protected classes may derive their authority from the 14th amendment, but that doesn't mean that equal protection arguments can only be made using the protected classes that Congress has singled out as needing more explicit statutes about. You simply cannot create any kind of class of people who have different rights except through due process, and officers' whims aren't due process.