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timcobb • today at 2:47 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

> This stop and interrogate shit shouldn't be legal.

fwiw she didn't have to answer any questions, he would have had to work a lot harder to establish fake probable cause if she hadn't talked...


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nkrisc • today at 7:23 AM

It’s a sad state of affairs when the best advice is “never talk to the police” so they can’t frame you for something.

AngryData • today at 3:00 AM

Yeah but it shouldn't have mattered, cops shouldn't be using random people's naivety as a weapon to extort them for crimes. How many other hundreds or thousands of people were scared and coerced in an attempt to get them to lick boot and potentially admit to crimes?

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