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[โ€“] Venat0r@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"reasonable suspicion": telling the cop to eat your ass ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Correct me if im wrong. Doesnt the USA has freedoms of speech? You can actually tell a cop to eat your ass without consequence unless the cop is a smooth-brain dipshit.

[โ€“] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

unless the cop is a smooth-brain dipshit

Believe or not, this is a requirement to become a cop

[โ€“] affenlehrer@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Believe or not, jail, right away. We have the best patients in the world because of jail.

[โ€“] Venat0r@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

yeah that's why I put it in the quotation marks. Just because it's a cops job to enforce the law, doesn't mean they know the law ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My friend from highschool said she was driving with her little brother in the passenger seat, and he apparently flipped off a cop. She told me the cop actually pulled her over and wrote her a ticket. This was a long time ago so I have no way of knowing what the ticket was for, or if this friend was telling the truth, fwiw. However, it's always been my impression that cops can make up some BS charge if they want, and then it's basically your word vs that of a cop *

  • Unless you have a good lawyer
[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Cops can issue citations, but judges ultimately decide if they are bullshit or not. Cops do not have the authority to make the law up, they only interpret it and enforce it. If you convince a judge that you only got ticketed for a middle-finger and prove it, you are cleared. Sounds like they got the attention of a cop and the cop followed them until they saw them actually break a law.