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Old 11-20-2014, 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Ike Bana View Post
The US Constitution 4th Amendment suggests that you cannot be stopped, searched, your vehicle stopped, your vehicle searched, or detained without probable cause. The reason why you can go on youtube and see so many video records of cops, border cops, and any other sorts of cops hassle motorists and finally let them go is because there is a 4th Amendment and finally some coppers get tired of the struggle and let the innocent go on their legal way without interruption or interference.



Then there are the other coppers who just go ahead and arrest the innocent traveler for "disorderly conduct" or on some similar garbage can charge.

Well, you are almost right. After a quick google search I learned that there is a exception carved out of the 4th amendment which allows for sobriety checkpoints.
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