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Purplehood wrote:I am confused. Why do so many members of our forum object to this Police-action yet appear to support the Patriot Act?

knotquiteawake wrote:Now, normally I am generally ok with a consensual search because I want the officer to feel at ease and I have nothing to hide nor do my passengers. However, I'm pretty sure this would tick me off enough to tell the officer they can go ahead and pound sand when they want to search my car as part of a search where the only criteria was being stopped at a traffic light. Sorry, you've got to do better than that to get me to suspend my rights. Maybe if my car matched a description (color, make, model, year, etc) then I would understand. But a blanket search like this is unreasonable. If I were that last person to be search (TWO HOURS LATER!) I would certainly be considering a lawsuit.

Police Stop, Handcuff Every Adult at Intersection in Search for Bank Robber

“Most of the adults were handcuffed, then were told what was going on and were asked for permission to search the car,” Fania said. “They all granted permission, and once nothing was found in their cars, they were un-handcuffed.”
The search lasted between an hour and a half and two hours, and it wasn’t until the final car was searched that police apprehended the suspect.

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“We didn’t have a description, didn’t know race or gender or anything, so a split-second decision was made to stop all the cars at that intersection, and search for the armed robber,” Aurora police Officer Frank Fania told ABC News.