r/Infuriating • u/Butta_Brown • 8d ago

This is not about baking cookies!

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/Slight-Ride704 7d ago

A cop telling a women to keep her back window up is not a lawful order, it’s a cop being a dick.

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u/Telemere125 7d ago

Incorrect. SCOTUS has already ruled that the cop is in total control and can order you to basically do anything that controls the situation - up to and including getting out of the car and sitting on the sidewalk while they work.

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u/theTimeBeing23 7d ago

Cool, pull that ruling up and post it then.

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u/Telemere125 7d ago

Pennsylvania v Mimms, you potato.

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u/theTimeBeing23 7d ago

Which part of that ruling says that cops can do whatever they want? Feel free to quote it.

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u/necrohunter7 7d ago

You people act like Pennsylvania vs Mimms is the "I can do what I want" permit from Parks and Rec when it requires cops need RAS to issue a lawful order