So if a policeman stops me on the street to ask the time, he's violated my 4th Amendment rights? Or did he have probable cause that I had a working watch?As bears repeating every time this happens, police violate constitutional rights by stopping anyone without probable cause.
— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) December 22, 2021
There is no "gift giving" exception to the Fourth Amendment. https://t.co/IoKVZ8ar2h
Either this is a really bad joke, or somebody's idea of "police stop" needs to be refined a bit. There is a difference between stopping a car because you think a criminal violation has occurred, and stopping a car because you want to help. And from a Constitutional/legal point of view, until a court rules that traffic stops to hand out gift cards to people who seem to need them ("probable cause"?) IS a Fourth Amendment violation: it isn't.
That's how the system works.
Scott Greenfield's twitter account says he's a criminal defense lawyer. Remarkable he could figure this is a violation of the 4th amendment. I wonder if he's hoping to get work out of this.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that some of those civil liberties types have about the same level of knowledge of "The Constitution" as January 6th insurrectionists, wrestling coach members of the House and those yahoos who post videos of them being pointlessly rude to cops who stop them for breaking traffic laws.
These idiots have cost the left way too much for the left to not tell them to go blow it out their twitter.