Indiana Supreme Court Says: No Right To Resist Illegal Police Entry Into One's Home
Here.
An ancient and venerable right...but clearly the state knows better...
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Here.
An ancient and venerable right...but clearly the state knows better...
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posted by Winston Smith at
3:45 PM
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I've frequently thought about this issue, actually. I didn't realize that citizens were permitted to prevent police from illegally entering their homes.
I always wondered what a citizen should do if presented with a situation in which an officer of the law is acting clearly inappropriately.
For instance, if an officer of the law pulls me over for speeding, makes comments about my wife, and then demands that I step out of my car so he can put me in handcuffs...am I required by law to allow that? Am I allowed to request that he call for another officer?
I always wondered what to do there. Never really found any good answers, although I didn't look too hard, I suppose.
What concerns me is the fact that there just seems to be a non-stop flood of decisions (since 9/11?) that seem to indicate that the answer is:
You are never allowed to do anything that in any way runs contrary to the desires of the police, no matter what.
I almost wrote: You are not allowed to do anything that interferes with the police...
But it's a lot worse than that. Videotaping the police does not interfere with them, and yet that is apparently illegal (in many/most places?). Honest cops should, in fact, welcome videotaping.
I hate to sound like one of those sophomoric libertarians...but welcome to the f*cking police state, brother...
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