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Old May 6, 2009 | 8:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Trollkiller
In the case of Law Dawg using the Andy Griffith approach to kids being kids, guess what, his approach is NOT unconstitutional.

Telling a kid to empty his pockets on suspicion is not a violation of the 4th Amendment.
No, but just rollin' up on a random couple kids being all cop-like and demanding they empty their pockets is. Even law dawg admitted to "Constitutional liberties".

"I don't like the looks of those youngsters" is not reasonable suspicion.

Or even a more reasonable example was the one upthread where the cop just took the bottle form the kid to see if it was beer or not. What's wrong with taking the kid's word for it?
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