Your 4th Amendment Right and the Butchering of it!

We as residents of the United States have rights "guaranteed" to us. The first set of rights, the bill of rights, were the first ten amendments of the U.S Constitution. Specific rights make us feel safe and secure in our everyday lives, like the right to say whatever you want except for threats of crime, and the right to assemble peacefully. All of these make you feel secure but if this one is infringed on legally or not, you will feel some sort of violation. This right is, The Fourth Amendment, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seize, to be reasonable the authorities should have a warrant to search and seize anything unless they have probable cause. Probable cause is the reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and the person being stopped has some kind of involvement in that crime. A seizure has different degrees, a low degree can be when you are stopped and aren't free to leave because the officer is physically stopping you or showing their authority, by speaking at a certain tone or blocking your path. The highest degree is arrest, where you obviously can't just walk away. A personal search is more than a frisk, a pat-down of your outer garments, its a search where an office actually puts their hands inside your garments.


So more butchering of the amendment is now the requirement for a stop and frisk, reasonable suspicion. Interesting police don't need a warrant due to probable cause, police don't need probable cause due to reasonable suspicion. how much more butchering can this amendment take, what's next the standard lowered to assumption observation, they must have made a reasonable observation to assume criminal offense. You put your hand in your pants pocket then in your jacket pocket, and what they observed you switch pockets leading them to assume you moved a weapon to a bigger pocket. It sounds ludicrous, but with the way things are going, why not let the police violate us a little more, they haven't stopped. So something designed to make us feel safe and secure in our neighborhoods has been butchered and now justifies the violation of our rights and personal or even public humiliation.

And if your a youth and your parents or anyone tells you if a police officer stops you obey and do what they say unless they tell you don't move exercise your fifth amendment right to remain silent and your right to be left alone. And if they say you can't leave, say "Why, what is your main purpose for stopping me, how did I give satisfy your reasonable suspicion by walking home". Don't be afraid say it, I wish I knew all that I do now about a year ago. I tell you this because we should all stand up for our rights, butchered or not, their still ours. And if they dear arrest you and charge you with resisting arrest or disorderly conduct you better hit your head on the roof of that impala so you can have a bruise to show so you can sue their asses.

Stand up for your rights people of all colors because if you don't they'll just stand over them, let them know we mean business Civil Rights Business.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution