11-08-2015, 05:25 PM
(11-07-2015, 04:14 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Would a car load of white kids in a mostly black neighborhood be asked to produce ID? I'm saying yes. While you may not like it a person who is out of place arouses a certain level of curiosity or suspicion. Defense lawyers like to pretend this kind of logic doesn't make sense.
Defense attorneys don't "pretend" anything. They just ask that the police follow the rule of law.
Police are the ones who like to "pretend" that the law does not apply to them in these situations, and that they can consider a person "suspicious of criminal activity" based on nothing but the color of his skin.
