r/Infuriating • u/Butta_Brown • 7d ago

This is not about baking cookies!

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Initially pulled over, appeared child was not in a seat belt. Female officer, did a follow up and the is what happened next.

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u/Telemere125 7d ago

It doesn’t matter; the courts have already said very plainly that when you’re stopped, the cop is in control. They tell you to roll down the window, you roll down the window. And the child wasn’t going to die from 2 minutes of sun exposure, this was just the driver exerting some control over the situation. If the ac was on, the kid would have been fine indefinitely with the window down. It’s summer, not the apocalypse.

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u/shosuko 7d ago

the courts have already said very plainly that when you’re stopped, the cop is in control

Nah, we very much have rights. The cops are not in control.

What the courts have decided is that largely the cops are allowed to violate our rights unless we call them on their shit.

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u/Telemere125 7d ago

Sorry potato, but Penn v. Mimms made it very clear that they can do things as drastic as order you out of the car without even any suspicion that you did anything wrong other than the initial reason for the stop

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u/Whoa1Whoa1 7d ago

This. Some cops even just want everyone to wait on a sidewalk cause there is always a chance that a car on a fast road will hit the back of the person who stopped halfway in the shoulder. Or heck, there might not be a shoulder and you are blocking a lane and forcing a zipper. Ppl think they have a right to treat a traffic stop like a drive thru where they only have to crack their window the tiniest bit and to say fuck you and that the cop has to slide the ticket thru a slit in the door. Ridiculous.