Free Talk Live - checkpoints

Motorist puts police in their place at suspicionless internal chec

dissident — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:26:57 +0000

No probable cause, no answers required at suspicionless internal checkpoints

Tennessee 'Officials' deply TSA on Highways to combat 'Terrorism'

cvcreation — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:26:59 +0000

Tennessee 'Officials' deploy TSA on Highways to combat 'Terrorism' for the hell of it.

Woman Forced to Give Birth at DUI Checkpoint

celestrion — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:47:17 +0000

A Connecticut woman found herself stuck in traffic on her way to the delivery room, thanks to a Plainville PD DUI checkpoint. When Mrs. Hairston began going into labor, officers attempted to call for an ambulance, but were advised that help was 10 minutes away at least--a result of the delay that they themselves had created.

Thankfully, baby Christian was born healthy, but he and his mother could've easily become the latest casualties in these all-to-common violations of the Fourth Amendment.

Update on pastor who was beaten at border crossing for not giving ID

berserker13 — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:01:09 +0000

YUMA — A jury has acquitted a Tempe pastor charged with failing to obey officers' instructions at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Yuma.

The jury also cleared Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of obstructing a highway during the April 2009 incident at the Interstate 8 checkpoint. Both charges are misdemeanors.

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

The_Expatriate — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:58:00 +0000

The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse. This follows an earlier disclosure by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for "testing, training, and evaluation purposes."