Dear Miami Judges:
We know that prosecutors continually tell you that police officers are unfailingly polite. They do NOT and we mean NEVER EVER threaten drivers to take them to jail for driving without a seat belt. Who would do such a thing? Not a Metro Dade Police Officer.
Take a look at this unfailingly polite and decent officer conducting a traffic stop with politeness. No threats of jail. No threats of being killed for not immediately turning over his DL and insurance and registration. So you just go on with your head in the sand about how police officers are always decent and kind and polite and never ever ever threaten the citizens they work for.
Res ipsa loquitor.
Your obt' srvt.
H. Rumpole, Esq.
Blog Proprietor.
Rumpole. My dear man. You have this wrong. He was driving with a suspended license. The officer was simply stating that “not wearing a seatbelt “ is how people die. He wasn’t saying that he was going to shoot him.
ReplyDeleteAtwater v. City of Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318 (2001). In Atwater, a Texas driver was pulled over for failing to wear a seat-belt. Although failure to wear a seat-belt is punishable by a maximum $200 fine, the woman was arrested during the course of her interaction with the officer. The woman sued the arresting officer, police chief, and city where she lived claiming a violation of her constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court in Atwater held that officers can arrest people for traffic violations and further, that officers do not need a warrant to do so. The U.S. Supreme Court reasoned that because a police officer has probable cause to believe that a person has committed a crime, in this case a traffic violation, in their presence, an arrest following the traffic violation is constitutional.
ReplyDeleteAnd when the laws compelling us to wear seat belts were initially proposed we were all promised throughout everything and village in the USA that it was ONLY for our safety.
DeleteThe Herald article on Judge Hanzman was amazing. He is our number 1 Judge. Only with his brilliance and command of America’s top trial lawyers could a billion dollar plus settlement been accomplished in the Surfside collapse case. He came from such humble beginnings and became a true public servant. God bless him.
ReplyDeletePolice wouldn't be targets if they were infairingky polite and fair. When was the last time that a fireman or ambulance driver was attacked?
ReplyDeleteHe’s kind of right, isn’t he? Cops shoot black people for less.
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