THE VIDEO SHELF · rights during police stops
The RIGHT Way to Handle a Police Stop
A short video advising how to handle a police stop by politely refusing searches and not answering questions, citing Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as a companion to Don't Talk to the Police for knowing your rights during stops.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- bart40330
- Topic
- rights during police stops
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2017
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I've seen these two videos a long time ago and they are GREAT advice. It's actually scary the kind of stuff the cop says he has done and other cops will do to you during questioning. In the UK, where I'm originally from, the police …
dotBen on Hacker News · 2010-05
In Don't Talk to the CopsMy take: KNOW your rights. Nothing stinks here. As one of the videos below states: If police is entitled to a search then they will just break in and do a search. If they ASK for consent, and even more, if they threaten, they KNOW …
username123 on Hacker News · 2011-09
In Police Assisted Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man's Home
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