These drivers really know the law, to the consternation of these border patrol agents.
Checkpoint refusals
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:March 22, 2013
- Post category:Civil Rights / Law / law and order / Law Enforcement Abuses / Videotaping law enforcement
- Post comments:5 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
These were great, please more stuff like this.
Who else noticed in the second video, that Agent Soto, a Latino speaking with a noticeable Spanish accent, was insisting a declaration of citizenship from someone with no accent.
That is a role reversal. The irony didn’t occur to me. I was focused on how hot the law enforcement officers would get, and whether they would take the cameras. Then I was thinking that you shouldn’t try anything like this regarding many municipal cops, or else your camera might disappear and you’ll get slammed up against the hood of the car and then arrested for “trying to reach for the officer’s weapon” regardless of the truth. So in the end I was thinking that these officers were regular folks caught up in a rather embarrassing job in an attempt to make a living. Some of them probably tell their friends what a waste of time their job is. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s incredibly easy to convince yourself that you are “protecting and defending” the United States no matter what you are actually doing.
If you have Google Earth installed put in these coordinates:
32° 3’52.95″N, 111°22’29.93″W
to see just how ridiculous and silly this check point is.
BTW, During the occupy rallies, someone came up with a video recording smartphone app that recorded directly to an internet site. Even if the rogue cops take your phone, the video evidence will be accessible from the web.
Border patrol expose:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/14/complaints-describes-border-agents-interrogating-muslim-americans-asking-for-social-media-accounts/