Sobriety Checkpoint leads to Forcible Extraction

[rambone]

These guys did everything they could to retain their 4th Amendment rights, but in the end, the will of the State trumped all that constitutional nonsense. To these agents, Probable Cause just means that somebody doesn't produce their papers fast enough.

So if you guys recall over New Years Eve, the big new thing is to set up blood-draw sobriety checkpoints for people who refuse to blow willingly. Now I don't drink & drive, but I wouldn't submit my breath or my blood to them willingly. So this is how I imagine it going; getting ripped out of my car with a boot on my neck while someone forcibly draws my body fluids with a needle. What a time we live in.


Video: Cops smash window of men who won't blow at sobriety checkpoint

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTG5rWF_Uis[/ame]

 

[steveh_131]

Maybe they hadn't quite met their window-breaking quota for the month.

 

[misconfig]

Insane....

 

[steveh_131]

"No ticket."

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Street Rule #1: if it's brown, it goes down.

OWB, Operating While Brown.

 

[Plinker]

I've never understood the constitutionality of sobriety checkpoints. Shouldn't there be probable cause to pull someone over to check sobriety? Driving at night on a weekend, IMHO, is not PC.

 

[Garb]

I love that bit at the end. "He's under arrest for... uh... interfering with our duties."

 

[rambone]

I've never understood the constitutionality of sobriety checkpoints. Shouldn't there be probable cause to pull someone over to check sobriety? Driving at night on a weekend, IMHO, is not PC.

Constitution?? We don't need PC round here, sonny.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

The controlling Indiana Supreme Court case on roadblocks:

No.

 

[rambone]

It blows into the breathalyzer or else it gets the tazer again.

IT DOES WHAT ITS TOLD!!!!

 

[mrjarrell]

Whoa, deja vu all over again. I was just watching this from a different source. The comments here are certainly better than the ones there, I can tell you. Lots of jackbootery at the other place, (to be expected, I guess. All the commenters were cops).

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Could anyone tell which state this was?

 

[mrjarrell]

Could anyone tell which state this was?

California, I believe. Escondido.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Does California have a "you must show ID statute if the po-po ask for it"?

 

[ATF Consumer]

It's funny...here in Indy, the probable cause statement sheet, they check "Other" and write in sobriety checkpoint...like that is somehow probable cause????

 

[Expat]

I don't like the idea of sobriety checkpoints. But if you are going to set them up, you can't make them voluntary.

 

[UncleMike]

Could anyone tell which state this was?

Escondido CA.
Precisely what does an incident that occurred thousands of miles from here have to do with Indiana, or Indiana Police Officers, for that matter???
I suggest that everyone who is pissed off about this contact the CA Police authority having jurisdiction over this case and raise seven barrels of owl crap with them.
Indiana Law Enforcement had nothing to do with this case.
BTW.
I don't like Sobriety Checkpoints either but until the Courts, or the Legislature, puts a stop to them we're stuck with them.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

It's funny...here in Indy, the probable cause statement sheet, they check "Other" and write in sobriety checkpoint...like that is somehow probable cause????

Hold on there a minute, Bobba Louie.

No probable cause needed to stop.

Did you read the Indiana Supreme Court case on roadblocks?

Precisely what does an incident that occurred thousands of miles from here have to do with Indiana, or Indiana Police Officers, for that matter???

I'm not so sure other than to show why one does not want to be brown.

 

[UncleMike]

Hold on there a minute, Bobba Louie.

No probable cause needed to stop.

Did you read the Indiana Supreme Court case on roadblocks?



I'm not so sure other than to show why one does not want to be brown.

Whatever.

 

[ATF Consumer]

Just another method to generate funds...from one of the many victimless crimes.