Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Delaware — In the ostensible land of the free, police are required to obtain consent, a warrant, or have probable cause that a crime is being committed before they can search you or your property. This ostensible right is guaranteed under the 4th amendment to the Constitution. However, police—who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution—routinely violate that oath and do so in the most egregious of ways.
In the video below, Delaware state police are seen on video harassing an innocent black man, violating his rights by illegally searching his vehicle, and then sending him on his way as if he’s supposed to accept that this is the way things are. When he asks why his rights are being violated and noted that he didn’t consent to the illegal search, the cops told him that he doesn’t have to consent if they are scared—a disturbing notion indeed.
The man who posted the video below remains unnamed. He posted the video to YouTube to expose what he calls racial profiling. And, his video is nothing short of infuriating.
As the video shows, troopers were searching the man’s vehicle as he started recording and questioned them about conducting the search without consent. As he films, you can hear one of the troopers say “no weapons.”
After one of the troopers comes up from the car, the man asks why they searched his vehicle without his consent and the response was utterly ridiculous.
“You don’t have to (consent) I’m scared. You’re suspicious. You have Jersey tags and you’re in this area,” says the rights violating cop.
After troopers finished violating the man’s rights, he asked troopers for their names and badge numbers and a trooper can be heard saying “negative.”
And just like that, these officers had stopped an innocent man, trampled his rights, refused to identify themselves, and then left him like some scene out of 1930’s Germany.
The man who posted the video wrote the following caption, asking if he should pursue a complaint against the cops in the video.
“I’m unsure as of now if I should pursue this. Please inform in the comment section below if this video is sufficient evidence to incriminate them.”
The video certainly shows a violation of this man’s rights. However, police routinely violate the rights of innocent citizens and get away with it—even when it is captured on video.
When asked if they are going to do anything about the officers in the video, Delaware State Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Richard Bratz gave the following statement:
“We are aware of the Youtube video. We are investigating the facts surrounding the incident. Information will be released when it becomes available.”
No other information has since been released in regard to this case.
When police can claim their fear allows them to violate the rights of innocent citizens, something has gone terribly wrong.
Police officer “fear” is a dangerous aspect to law enforcement in America today. While cop fear was used to justify an illegal search of a man’s vehicle in the video above, it is all too often the reason given to inflict harm and even death.
As TFTP previously reported, a cop in Tennessee claimed that an 81-year-old woman caused him to fear for his life while she was gardening—so he tasered her.
The family of Beunos Erwin has now hired an attorney after police showed up to their home responding to a 911 call for help and ended up tasering the very old woman in the street.
The sheriff said he supports his deputy’s decision because the officer was forced to think fast and only had 14 seconds to decide what to do. According to Greene County Sheriff Pat Hankins, the deputy’s only options were to kill the woman or take a chance risking his life. Naturally, bravery was out of the question—apparently, so was walking backward.
A police officer deploying a taser on a harmless 81-year-old woman illustrates the ominous training of police departments today. Do not be brave, do not risk injury, swiftly and immediately escalate force to avoid having to employ any heroic action to help an 81-year-old woman with dementia—god forbid you take a tiny risk to remove a rake from an elderly woman—or allow an innocent black man to travel without stopping him.
After all, when your only tool is a hammer—everything starts looking like a nail.
“Cops Say Their ‘Fear’ Allows Them to Trample the 4th Amendment”
THAT SAME ‘FEAR” ALLOWS ME TO BLOW YOUR SHIT AWAY IF I FEEL THREATENED…………
KISS MY ASS PIG……
if you are that big of a coward you shouldn’t be defending my rights ( oh thats right you are cowards and no longer defend our rights but violate them)
your fear only allows you to find another line of work
if i lived in fear at my job, i wouldn’t be stupid .. I’d find a better job rather than.. BLAME YOUR VICTIMS
so , when we fear for our lives around you ..do we get to follow your line of reasoning?
Tell that to the Houston, TX couple, and their dog, that got blown away by a wrongful SWAT invasion.
It has nothing to do with the pigment of your skin, this is done all over America, every day, and to more white people than black simply because there are more white people.
This is Blackwater USA. They have been hired by the United States Corporation to beat and murder our people into subjugation.
And that scared thing will only fly so far because as this scenario continues to intensify across the country, the time will come when they will be scared and they won’t be worrying about the person they pulled over, but rather about the bullets flying from every direction wherever they stop to commit a little tyranny.
It is not going to get any better and the sooner we shut down the industry ass suckers who make up the 25% going along with this shit, the sooner we can get the ugly business ahead under way.
Don’t let them divide us by race, age, gender, or religion.
To the black fella speaking on the video I can tell you I’ve have far worse than this happen to me twenty years ago on several occasions. And again, it didn’t have a goddamn thing to do with the pigment of my skin.
We will either allow our house to remain divided against itself, just like the first Americans did and be conquered, or we will come together as a people, united behind our Bill of Rights and wipe this scourge from the face of this planet. The choice has always been ours.
The former has always been the route taken as it is more comforting to believe this kind of treatment only happens to a small percentage of our people because of the pigment of their skin rather than the fact that the scenario has been created to project this East German Stassi Blackwater infiltration into our communities for the threat to us all that it actually is.