they can ask you a ton of things, its whether you have to answer or not that is the question lol technically you could have said yes to both and as long as you had no incriminating shit on you, they cant do shit too you
they can ask you anything. its your right to not tell them. and you should never willingly allow a search under any circumstance. thats how people get busted. always say "sorry officer i dont consent to searches." even if they have probable cause. if they have a reason to search it better be good after you say that because if its "i smelled weed" and you said you didnt consent you have a good chance of fighting it in court. especially if you only have a gram or 2 because its unlikely the officer actually smelled it.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA]BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters - YouTube[/ame]
he profiled OP as a stoner (accurately i might add) thats what they do at those checkpoints. profile the fuck out of you.
Yeah dude he can ask away. I was in line to go through US customs in Detroit and some plain clothes dude pulls me aside (I looked like a dirty hippy at the time) and starts giving me the fifth degree (two worse than the third..ha) asking where my final destination was, for some reason I took the question as a philosophical jaunt and paused before giving him the geographic location where I was headed to. After that mistake he's like what do you do in Missouri-school, what's your major-English, how are you're grades-terrible, do you live on campus-no, did you have fun in Amsterdam-had a blast, bring any souvenier's home-just these wooden shoes and some Kinder eggs, what's a Kinder egg-candy with a toy inside, did you smoke pot in Amsterdam-long pause....absolutely not. Finally he stamps my passport and tells me to get out of there. Really thought I was about to be probed when I'm trying to save my ass virginity for prison...ha
can they really make you pop your trunk without probable cause? hell can they even detain you? I mean, I know its a checkpoint.. but shit
they could argue you have an illegal in your trunk, and OP didnt argue with them asking to look in there, if he had said something along the lines of "no sir, and i dont use drugs and this is my mothers car so im not really sure why this is going on" they probably wouldnt have looked
OP are you black ? if so this is probably why you had so much trouble. There's allot of racial profiling at borders checkpoints. and well everywhere else in the states by cops. Yes they can ask you a load of questions, you can say whatever you like yes or no I don't think thy can search your car though, not unless they have probably cause and it sounds to me like they didn't. You got fucked over sorry man.
But the officer was hispanic\mexican as well and the other dude was puerto rican of some sort so it wasnt racial profiling but just trying to be an asshole with me I felt like saying "Yes I smoke weed everyday" Next time I will not consent to popping the trunk but like I said I was in a hurry.. He thought that maybe he could pressure me into saying something? Didnt phase me at all though So it didnt work on his part
Whata fuckin dumbass though.. BP:"My dog picks up that theres been weed in the car" ME: ..."Ok"... BP: "Have you smoked weed in this car before?"... ME: "No." ... BP: "Have you smoked weed ever?" ME: ... "No." (SHORT PAUSE) BP: "Well I dont know why my dog is picking this up", ME: ... "Beats me." (Long Pause) BP: ... "Go ahead"
Could be worse. It could be like this... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC9NeJh1NhI]India-Pakistan border ceremony - BBC - YouTube[/ame]
A baseball hat and a regular cut sleeve tee? LOL He was just trying to use his "COP Power" on me because he saw I was young (Or thats what I asssume) FUCK BP & PD!
You should've really tried to mess with him, ya never know he may have treated you to a body cavity search, you could have become "close" friends.
See, this is the bullshit that pisses me off about fucking cops and K9 dogs. Like, if a dog is smart enough to be able to discern smells from each other and smell through car doors and shit, it's definitely smart enough to be trained how to react around cars. So who's to say that the dogs aren't just trained to go up to a damn car and bark? And in the event that they find nothing, they just go "Oh, Fido must have made a mistake". Fido must have made a fucking mistake? Well then obviously Fido needs to be retired from the force because obviously his nose can't get the job done. Any dog that "makes a mistake" should be retired from the force.