Easy Bake Gun Club Yesterday was the ATF raiding Ares Arms in California.
What never got reported was Tuesday’s massive highway roadblock and car to car searches by armed law enforcement officers in Maryland. Were there warrants for these searches? No. Was there reasonable cause to stop every commuter at 10a.m. on a Tuesday morning? No.
“When I saw a wall of police officers with automatic weapons approaching our cars, it was apparent that something serious was taking place,” one commuter told local media.
Rockville city, Montgomery County, and Maryland State Police blocked both lanes of Interstate 270 with more than 30 police vehicles, numerous dogs, helicopters, and officers going to car to car with weapons drawn as seen here:
What caused this open manhunt and dismissal of the citizen’s 4th Amendment rights? A bank robbery where the three suspects were believed to have driven their getaway car onto the freeway.
Motorist Carlton Higdon told local reporters there was, “a lot of yelling, a lot of orders being given… helicopters, dogs barking, sirens, police cars driving by”.
Traffic backed up for miles on the freeway for over an hour with no explanation from police. Commuters exiting their vehicles to see what was happened were met with hostility from police. As one woman leaned out of her vehicle to vomit she was yelled at by an officer to stay inside and close her door. I suppose she’s supposed to puke inside her car while they trample her rights.
During this encounter motorists were approached by armed officers and ordered at gunpoint to submit to warrantless searches of their vehicles. According to one witness police were just walking along, weapons drawn ordering people to “Pop the trunk! Pop the trunk!”. He overheard a man in a truck next to him call out to another motorist: The police are looking for bank robbers. Shortly after, about nine officers approached his car – including state police in tan uniforms, county police in dark uniforms and at least one plainclothes officer wearing a yellow tie.
Is it possible that there were consensual searches? Is anything ordered at gunpoint consensual? Reportedly not one person was brave enough (foolish enough?) to refuse the hostile violation of the 4th Amendment. Would you be?
Montgomery County Police Captain Paul Starks described the searches as an operation of “systematically checking the trunks and rear hatches” of the vehicles caught in the roadblock.
Rockville Police Chief Tom Manger remained defiant and unapologetic when he told local station WTOP, “For those folks that wondered how is that the police can just walk through traffic like that and get folks to show their hands, get folks to pop their trunks, between the exigency of the circumstances and the information that we had, it gave us the legal foundation to do what we did“.
The massive roadblock and 4th Amendment violations did net the bank robbers and the stolen $7,000 dollars. The robbers were found in their vehicle and did not resist when taken into custody. They were not found hiding in anyone else’s trunk.
Of course, by putting armed criminals into a miles long roadblock authorities made it more likely they would take someone hostage or commandeer an innocent bystanders vehicle. Some will say that the ends justify the means and as long as the robbers were arrested, the “operation was worth it”.
Was the roadblock worth it? Not if you believe in the principles of “liberty and justice for all”. The criminals were caught, but the innocent motorists were treated as part of the crime during warrantless searches by officers with weapons drawn simply because they happened to be on a stretch of highway going about their day.
Was this Maryland’s “Intro to Police State” class?
Insane
Someone robbed a bank? So all this for a bunch of baseless money. Money that would no doubt have turned up soon at a local wal-mart.
F these piggy’s and their bank.
I had contact with a cop/sheriff today. A search and rescue party. The dick came back to confront me about not being upfront about my arrangement with the neighbor. I said i didnt say anything because it was in no way related to a missing person. Once I allowed him to make sure there was no meth labs or sex workers stashed in the ashtray he asked if I was afraid of getting in trouble. I said for what? Using the neighbors property with his permission? Cops love being laughed at. try it.
No nottoobitter, the cops just love to bend you over to check out your orofices. That is what they get off on doing isn`t it – if not then why is it that that is what they are always doing.
luckily diggerdan there was no orfice checks.lol
The one cop asked my buddy if he had been arrested before. My buddy said ‘no…why?’ and the cop told him he looks suspicious. my buddy then replied ‘suspicious of doing what?’ the cop walked away.
Nottoobitter, all cops are trained to see is suspicious people which includes everyone. When your a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
so true Millard
Is that like Oreo cookies? 🙂
I’m sure that the pig in charge was not one bit apologetic as a jack booted traitor whore he was never is. Their criminal behavior and wiping their asses with the Constitution is in everyone’s faces now,so please tell me about the good ones and rarity of this kind of assault by the cops! Those f@#king terrorist love this !
Sorry cracker122049, it can’t be done. There are no “good ones” to speak of. This kind of assault is commonplace and will be more prevalent in the near future if that day hasn’t already arrived.
These cops are nothing more than a bunch of brainless, coward, fascist drones, scared of their own shadow when their not running like a pack of dogs hiding behind a tin star.
I have a feeling these bank robbers were paid by the government to commit the act and get arrested so that they can practice intensifying their police state tactics. This is just too over the top for two or three people.
Who were these patsies? Why aren’t their names being stated? This smells like it was staged.
A complete disregard for the 4th Article and again, WHY DIDN’T ANYONE DO ANYTHING, DAMMIT!!!!!!
5 cop cars with maybe 8 cops at the most against 100 civilians. WHAT THE F**K!!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE! BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM!!! It’s mathematically impossible for them to take you all!! Stop letting them violate your rights and enforce your own!!! FIGHT BACK!!!
😡 GRR!! This stuff just pisses me off!
I agree!
Hey NC, that picture of Goober with the assault weapon takes the cake! He looks like he sh!t his pants or is about to!
What we need here is a class action lawsuit. This is bull shit!
What we need here is for everyone who is armed to come out of their cars, band together and point their guns at these treasonous pigs and make them run like the cowards that they are.
Give them the same treatment. “Pop your trunk pig, the banker robbers could be in there!” Of course, your weapons are drawn, locked and loaded!
Wow! Talk about an abuse of “power”.
I’m sure they would have shot anyone questioning what the heck they were doing during this warrantless invasion of the peoples 4th article.
Disgusting.
I’d like to know how many refused to comply with these gestapo tactics-it should have been all of them but I’m not sure there was one. Those unfamiliar with firearms or approaching aggressors, or even their Bill of Rights, were perhaps deservedly alarmed into compliance. But there should have been at least one ex-military in the line, one patriot…
No shit. This is ridiculous. People need to wake the hell up! Enforce your damn rights! 8 cops against 100 people. Whether the people are armed or unarmed, the cops don’t stand a chance. Stop acting like zombies and FIGHT BACK, DAMMIT!!!
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“What Difference Does It Make?”
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100 people with cars against 8 armed policemen. What’s the problem? RUN THE BASTARDS OVER!!!
It’s like 100 tanks against 8 soldiers. Are the people in the tanks gonna just stop and say, “I give up”? Ask Bulldog. It’s no contest.
RUN THEM OVER!!! What the hell are they afraid of? Are they that weak? FIGHT BACK!!!!
“Reportedly not one person was brave enough (foolish enough?) to refuse the hostile violation of the 4th Amendment. Would you be?”
Maybe we’ve been hearing about cops killing innocent people every week just for the purpose of getting us to submit to something like this.
I agree , Its predictive programing, the Wolf knows the Sheep will not fight back.
If something soon,..and I mean SOON! doesn’t lite off this dry tender , then its all lost. …whats it gonna take?
If I had Been there and they wanted to Search my car, It’d go like this….
Them: “We need to Search your Vehicle”
Me: “No You Don’t”
Them going into Catatonic Brainfart: “Plea….Wha…..What?”
Me: “You Heard me”
Them: “But you have to Comply”
Me: “No, I Don’t!”
Them: “B…….but….”
Me: “But Nothing, Have a Nice Day Officer!” *rolls up window*