Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by sangfroid on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:10PM
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If you have not been charged with a crime, can you just refuse to hand over your cards?
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Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by dpc59 on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:27PM
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Then they charge you for obstruction (or whatever it's called in oklahoma, in french it's called "entrave à un agent de la paix")
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by ihsw on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:31PM
(#11864417)
It is obstruction of justice and it's very unpleasant.
If they're so inclined they can take your things by force and you will have no reasonable means of recourse.
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by orbitingpluto on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @02:55PM
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Isn't the question, "obstructing what?"
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by CobrastanJorji on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:41PM
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And the answer, of course, is "Justice."
It's like being charged solely with resisting arrest.
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by orbitingpluto on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @09:54PM
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Or destruction of government property when you bleed on them during a beating? Ferguson:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/the-day-fer...
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by cehrnrooth on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @03:07PM
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That seems questionable, how can they charge you with obstruction when you can just not answer any questions you're not legally obligated to answer.
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by trbvm2 on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:29AM
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I tried to write the long answer and it turned out as a wall of text composed of parenthetical caveats. Then I tried to right the short answer and it turned out as a medium length yet confusing answer.
The truth of the matter is that people are barely evolved ape/chimps and do pretty much whatever suites them as long as they don't get their ass kicked for it.
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by tripzilch on Thursday June 09, 2016 @01:43PM
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Thanks! I'm saving this comment for its general applicability to, unfortunately, anything.
Re:Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or ...
by stonemetal on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:06PM
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Yes, that would be the fourth amendment.