Nope. Legal detention and public safety preceeds individual rights. They were released right? Then there was no offense on the part of legal detention.

Originally posted by mysterioustranger
Nope. Legal detention and public safety preceeds individual rights. They were released right? Then there was no offense on the part of legal detention.

Legal?
link please

collective punishment is a NAZI type thing...

“We didn’t have a description, didn’t know race or gender or anything, so a split-second decision was made to stop all the cars at that intersection, and search for the armed robber,” Aurora police Officer Frank Fania told ABC News.

That's insane.

"We have no idea who we're looking for so we're just going to search everyone until we find somebody we can charge with something."

Amazing.

Originally posted by mysterioustranger
Nope. Legal detention and public safety preceeds individual rights. They were released right? Then there was no offense on the part of legal detention.

Wrong. This would not fall under police privilege for a false imprisonment lawsuit.

And the police wonder why more and more people hate them lol.

The fact that the article states EVERYONE consented to letting the cops search their cars is a very sad and pathetic commentary on the American people today.

It doesn't sound like they had probable cause.

So yeah...,big problem. Even if they found the culprits, a defense attorney could get the search thrown out.

Originally posted by mysterioustranger
Nope. Legal detention and public safety preceeds individual rights. They were released right? Then there was no offense on the part of legal detention.

And this is how we slowly succumb and lose our liberty, little by little.

Police said they had received what they called a “reliable” tip that the culprit in an armed robbery at a Wells Fargo bank committed earlier was stopped at the red light. “We didn’t have a description, didn’t know race or gender or anything, so a split-second decision was made to stop all the cars at that intersection, and search for the armed robber,” Aurora police Officer Frank Fania told ABC News.

That's some "reliable tip" you got there. "They're in some sort of car." Solid tip. Solid.

Originally posted by mysterioustranger
Nope. Legal detention and public safety preceeds individual rights. They were released right? Then there was no offense on the part of legal detention.

Bolshevik!

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

To have reasonable suspicion that would justify a stop, police must be able to point to “specific and articulable facts” that would indicate to a reasonable person that a crime has been, is being, or is about to be committed.[5] Reasonable suspicion depends on the “totality of the circumstances”,[6] and can result from a combination of facts, each of which is by itself innocuous.

Additionally, if police stopped 19 cars and one of them truly was carrying an "armed and dangerous" bank robber, wouldn't stopping all those cars together create a safety concern for the other 18 cars full of innocent people? What if the robber decided to blast his way out of the situation? He would have had a whole lot of potential hostages/victims. Bad police work here, both from a legal and common sense perspective.

Originally posted by FreeFromTheHerd

The fact that the article states EVERYONE consented to letting the cops search their cars is a very sad and pathetic commentary on the American people today.

I'm curious to know what sort of coercion was used.

A little: "We can search your car now or have it impounded for a week and take it apart piece by piece"
Or maybe some: "We can search your car now or call in a dog and hold you here all day"
Perhaps some good old fashioned: "If you dont let us search we'll hold you for obstruction"

It's taught to all of us from a very young age to just do what they say because they're all so righteous and caring and only here to help.

It isnt until you've lived a little you realize the whole: "If you get lost find a policeman and tell him your address" thing the worst advice you can give a kid.

This is intersesting.

It demonstrates perfectly how weak and pathetic american citizens have become.

If you disobey the cops in a situation like this they would probably shoot you dead for being belligerent.

These kind of situatuions show how much police officers now have total control over the scared public. They are only one step away from having the buses role up and start shipping people to camps.

Most people are now so scared and so dumb they wont even ask where they are been sent to.

And america calls itself a democracy.

In a few more years they will just send out drones to bomb any cars in the vicinity of the robbery.

(and don't forget they cuffed and detained all these people on behalf of a bank. too funny)