Tyreek Hill arrested for traffic violation by stadium in Miami on gameday (Hill played) [Reckless driving & seatbelt charges dismissed]

2009ring said
This guy is one of the better police watchdog lawyers out there. His youtube channel is a must-follow.

First of all, there is no law that states you have to roll your window down the entire way because a cop tells you to. You need to be able to effectively communicate with them, that is all. There was no reason for Hill to get out of the car other than these cops fragile egos. Grabbing the door handle and yanking him out of the car is a 4th amendment violation, they have no probable cause to remove him from the car as aside from a summary traffic infraction he has committed no real crimes.

These cops get butt hurt the minute someone doesn't cow tow to their excessive egos. I'm just glad Tyreek wasn't holding a pot of boiling water or this thing could have gotten even worse.

I heard an interview with a police trainer probably 15 years ago on NPR. She was very concerned that systemic training issues were being developed which taught the officers specifically how to skirt the citizens constitutional rights in this manner. Go in hot and blame it all on fear of the driver.

It's been an effective strategy and one upheld by the courts because of qualified immunity.

Folks should do a little research on police states.

A police state describes a state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties. There is typically little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive, and the deployment of internal security and police forces play a heightened role in governance. A police state is a characteristic of authoritarian, totalitarian or illiberal regimes (contrary to a liberal democratic regime). Such governments are typically one-party states, but police-state-level control may emerge in multi-party systems as well.

I'd say turning a traffic stop into multiple detentions (maybe arrests) because of an inability to be a rational professional officer fits the definition of 'extreme level of control'. At least, if that had happened to me I'd be pretty upset. Unlike Tyreek, any of us or our families in that situ probably go to jail. Maybe it even ruins our lives because we miss work, get fired, and now have an arrest record for the reason.