We saw this after the Boston Marathon bombing too
Suspending the fourth amendment in PA:
Heavily armed state troopers guarded an entrance into a neighborhood or area where they believe 31-year-old suspected cop killer Eric Frein may be hiding.
Police are checking every vehicle leaving. Local residents still have not been able to get back into their homes since last night, with some sleeping in shelters, others in their cars as it appears police are hot on Frein’s track but still haven’t got him.
Fuck that.
September 23rd, 2014 at 8:30 pm
Cowing and desensitizing the population for what’s coming. It works every time.
If nothing else, they demonstrated who is in charge and that’s what counts.
Was there really a cop killer on the lose? Doesn’t matter.
If cops are so ready and willing to violate their Oath to the constitution, the Supreme Law of The Land, why should they be believed or trusted in any other matters whatsoever?
Now turn it around; say a regular, non-cop citizen gets killed. A neiborhood watch group then sets out, armed, to search every home and vehicle, setting up roadblocks, keeping residents out of their homes… If that’s not totally cool, then it’s uncool for cops to do it.
September 23rd, 2014 at 8:39 pm
The cops effectively occupied all the resident’s homes by depriving them of their use, for the cops’ purposes. I see a massive Third Amendment violation.
September 23rd, 2014 at 11:59 pm
The only people in danger are the Cops… I would just stay in my home and tell the cops to get a warrant…
September 24th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
And just like in Boston, the cops don’t know your property like you do. So the best person to notice that something is amiss is sitting in a fucking shelter not allowed to go to their own property.
Brilliant!