Not sure if I should laugh or cry or both because the instructor at this traffic stop CLE described a person as suspicious because they were "palms sweaty, mom's spaghetti."
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Palms sweaty, guilty yougetti
aug 30, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Man things are different here in Canada. Morning stop for late night partiers and we were joking with the cop, hubs failed breathalyzer 3 times bc his breathing rate was wrong and he laughed and said forget it. Sent us away.
aug 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
I can't tell if your instructor was being somehow racist against Italians or having a stroke.
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 6 0 • view
It can be two things!
aug 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s a (partial) Eminem quotation genius.com/Eminem-lose-...
aug 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 8 0 • view
I have become careful about how I drive precisely because I have come to the realization that a minimally motivated cop has all the tools he needs to arrest me and search my vehicle regardless of anything I might say or do (or not say or do).
aug 30, 2025, 3:44 pm • 5 0 • view
The absurdity of requiring people to maintain calm and peaceful presence when confronted by the level of coercive power modern day law enforcement has is astounding. The science contradicts it. Human decency contradicts it. But courts dgaf
aug 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 11 3 • view
MN case law says nervousness on its own isn't suspicious unless it's wildly beyond what would be normal, which is at least a little something. A few judges I've seen lately have explicitly said in rulings that a POC, esp black men, have every reason to be more nervous than typical. But on the whole
aug 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 7 0 • view
The law very much does not gaf about the very real power imbalance, corruption, or literal ability to kill the driver btwn an officer & a citizen. Same with pretextual stops - why tf are those fine as long as they can come up with any bullshit reason for the stop other than "not white driver"? They
aug 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 5 0 • view
Can literally write in their report, "I saw a Hispanic male driving & i decided to stop him bc I think Hispanic people commit crimes & I don't like them and also they had an object suspended from the rear view mirror" and the law is like, "oh well, then, do your thing, officer racism!"
aug 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 4 0 • view
the instructor saw his chance and he only had one shot
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 46 0 • view
Cops: I think he’s getting it. Other Cops: I’m still not sure he’s getting it. Instructor: Don’t overthink it, next we will cover “getting your story straight and how to articulate the events that led you to believe you had authority to deny them their rights”. Easy stuff.
aug 31, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
More like 8-15 shots, depending on the size of the magazine
aug 30, 2025, 3:43 pm • 19 0 • view
I am not throwing away my clip I am not throwing away my clip. . .
aug 30, 2025, 4:22 pm • 4 0 • view
well the opportunity comes but once in a lifetime
aug 30, 2025, 3:54 pm • 3 0 • view
Sooooo CLE
aug 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
There is a case out of Georgia where the court found probable cause for a search for marijuana because the truck had a floral scent with no smell of marijuana and the cops felt that it was suspicious.
aug 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 1 • view
SFSTs: “We made a test people always fail and if you refuse that’s PC to arrest you”
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 am • 0 0 • view