Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
The case, Utah v. Strieff, No. 14-1373, arose from police surveillance of a house in South Salt Lake based on an anonymous tip of “narcotics activity” there. A police officer, Douglas Fackrell, stopped Edward Strieff after he had left the house based on what the state later conceded were insufficient grounds, making the stop unlawful.
Officer Fackrell then ran a check and discovered a warrant for a minor traffic violation. He arrested Mr. Strieff, searched him and found a baggie containing methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia. The question for the justices was whether the drugs must be suppressed given the unlawful stop or whether they could be used as evidence given the arrest warrant.
Comments
They codified the obvious. For 40 years I've noted that white people give up all rights when they get in a car, even as a passenger (war on drugs & long-hairs). People of color simply give up all rights. Now we're kinda all equally fucked, 'cept not really.
Maybe this will get people pissed off enough to vote in a new Amendment - "unless I've got my hand in the till or standing in the middle of traffic, leave me the fuck alone".
I know, I know - tasers gotta be used, police got quotas to meet.... Digby digs into the finer details:
digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/qotd-justice-sotomayor.html
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 2:22am
No I don't think so. It's going to get worse. There will be more terrorist attacks and the people will scream for government to do something. In the end they will decide privacy rights have to go. All we can hope for is to keep the worst of the abuses to our civil liberties to a minimum.
by ocean-kat on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 3:39am
Hmmm... quite the bitter brand of coffee you're drinking. Don't worry, be happy....
(here's where the early part of the campaign with Ferguson/#BLM/etc. runs into the pivot to November - hope the former gains more traction)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 4:27am