Video Goes Viral - How To Stop Police From Entering your Home

[truedelphi]

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-door-warrant-shut-guy/


Notice how quick the police are to counter his resistance with the statement that "we will make you step out."

One reason you want to have officers identify themselves is that in the event of injury or property damge caused by the police, there is this statute, offering you the relief of suing them:

Title 42, §1983 US Code:

Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any state or territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section,any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
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Also if you live in California, in any of many areas that are now being supposedly "governed" by Planning Commissions who are decreeing that growing cannabis is a nuisance, and that therefore the local ordinance allows police on your property to pull up the cannibis, that whole line of thought is Unconstitutional, under the provisions of the California law that states that whenever legal status has been given to an activity, that activity is immune from ever being considered a nuisance!

[Fred Sanders]

1. "I am going to drag you out", says the one cop, the other quickly intervenes after Citizen Kane

says go ahead, it will be right up on YouTube!

And if he did not have a camera.....he would have been out dragged on to the streets.....the mocking of a citizen correctly outlining his rights reveals the arrogance that is at the heart of too much modern policing.

To tell the truth fully though, policing a nation armed to the teeth with firearms has to be incredibly stressful, what other police force in the world faces such an arsenal of weaponry every working hour?

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. That statute doesn't mean what it is proported to mean ...

ETA: This stuff is what makes the internet dangerous.

[truedelphi]

6. I have a friend who is using it in that manner -

And I think she already used it to stop some Housing Association from ramming various "decrees" down her throat.

But tell me what you know, if you have the time.

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. Section 1983 actions ...

are the mechanism to sue police (or people acting under color of law) for MISCONDUCT, specifically for wrongfully denying a civil right. Serving a properly secured warrant, even if nothing is found, would not support such an action (though nothing is stopping anyone from filing a law suit for anything).

You might be surprised at how little law enforcement knows about the law; but, EVERYONE in law enforcement has heard reference to the section/action and it usually is coupled to a bad outcome or the cop, whether the suit is successful or not.

{Yes ... I know that's one hell of a run-on sentence.}

[tkmorris]

9. Noticed that

I would say however that this is what makes ignorance dangerous. The internet is what it is; no one should believe something just because some random person on the internet said so. It's like getting medical advice from the cashier at the Safeway.

[randys1]

3. Most of white america would be stunned to see this....

They would not understand why you might not be able to trust the cops.

And most of the time in a situation like this maybe you could trust them (if you were white cuz see they are usually looking for a BLACK criminal even if they dont know he is BLACK), not sure, but what we need is white America to understand why this MAN would make a move like this.

Why?

Someone needs to explain this to white America.

I cant, I am white, but I know there is a reason.

[Lochloosa]

4. "Ain't playing no fucking games"

[Warpy]

5. BTDT

Police were conducting a door to door search of my neighborhood in Boston, looking for Susan Saxe and Kathy Powers, I guess in 1970. They banged on my door and told me to open up. I said "Sure, just slip the warrant under the door first so I can make sure this is the proper address." They went away.

[truedelphi]

7. That is a great story, Warpy. n/t

[0rganism]

8. notice how the one cop at the end tells him to shut his door

as if he was just going to leave it open after that.

Just had to get the last word in, i guess... a more charitable interpretation is that the cop is actually concerned for his safety, but somehow it seemed more like a last ditch shot at controlling the situation after he stood them down.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. I noticed that too...it was the last pathetic gesture of the impotent pretending to power

Hilariously, the resident had the last word anyway: I ain't playing no fucking games in this motherfucker.

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. My favorite: "I don't know what you're pointing at me." "It's a CELL PHONE."

[Go Vols]

13. Don't open the door

has always worked for me.