"Don't mouth off to cops, and you'll live!" cried the patriot.

[kpete]

It all depends on who's doing the mouthing.........



http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/07/23/megyn-kelly-on-sandra-bland-case-even-if-you-kn/204571

[AuntPatsy]

1. Right

[Gothmog]

2. There is one set of rules for whites and one set for everyone else

[napkinz]

3. ...

[kpete]

5. napkinz

Thanks so much
your post adds so much clarity

peace,
kp

[napkinz]

7. you're welcome kpete

[Binkie The Clown]

4. The lesson is that we must ALL learn...

...obedience and submission. For our own good, don't you know.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Last I checked, mouthing off to cops wasn't a capital offense in the statutes.

I've mouthed off to cops without being arrested, but then I'm white and female.

[justiceischeap]

8. A Lawyer Gave Us the Blunt Truth About Sandra Bland's Arrest

http://www.attn.com/stories/2498/sandra-bland-arrest-lawful

"In terms of professional conduct, but also in terms of putting your hands on somebody who does not want hands put on them. That is a crime. He does not have the right to put his hands on her. Because he’s an officer, you have to go through the legal justification at every step of the process, at each action that takes place, and that’s why it is important to break things down step by step.

If he saw a traffic violation, and he wanted to issue a citation or a warning, he had a right to do that. Beyond that, he had no right to escalate things, and he had no right to put his hands on her. And I think that’s how we need to reorient the thinking. Officers putting their hands on citizens is something that, historically-- and because it’s mainly citizens of color who police put their hands on-- has been to a degree accepted by society as a whole. I think that’s something we need to rethink as a society. To what point is it acceptable? And if it’s not acceptable, what do we do about it?

But here, I can’t figure out what right he had at every point starting when he begins to tell her to put out her cigarette. Take a moment to imagine that is just another person at that point. Not a law enforcement officer, but just a man trying to order a woman to put out her cigarette. And when she won’t submit to his authority, going into the car and attacking her."

This is a good read from an attorney's point of view and speaking from his views on the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.