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Tased Motorist to CBP Agent: ‘What the Fuck Is Wrong With You?’
Would-be CBP agent gets the full CBP treatment at an internal checkpoint.
Jessica Cooke, a 21-year-old from Ogdensburg, New York, recently graduated from SUNY Canton with a degree in law enforcement leadership and had already applied for a job as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent when she was surprised by an impromptu final lesson at a CBP checkpoint on Route 37 in Waddington last week. What she learned—that people who insist on their constitutional rights in this setting run the risk of being roughed up and shot with a stun gun—should help make her a better CBP agent, although CBP may not see it that way.
Cooke was driving from Norfolk to her boyfriend’s house in Ogdensburg, the northern border of which is the St. Lawrence River. If you cross the river, you are in Canada, but Cooke was not crossing the river. She nevertheless became subject to the arbitrary orders of CBP agents by driving through one of the country’s many internal immigration checkpoints, which can be located anywhere within 100 miles of the border (a zone that includes two-thirds of the U.S. population). For some mysterious reason, she was instructed to pull into a secondary inspection area, where she used her cellphone to record a five-minute video of the stop (below).
After presenting her driver’s license, Cooke, who surely learned in college that police (and even CBP agents!) need “reasonable suspicion” to detain someone, asks why she was pulled over. “You guys have no reason to be holding me,” she says. A male agent who identifies himself as a supervisor has no explanation for the detention, but he says Cooke will have to wait for a drug-sniffing dog to inspect her car. “Well, they’d better be here soon, because if not, I’m calling 911, and this can all be figured out,” Cooke says. “You guys are holding me here against my will.” Eventually the female agent who first interacted with Cooke says she seemed nervous—an all-purpose excuse for detaining someone, since people tend to be nervous when confronted by armed government officials.
“Why do you want to get in my trunk when you have no right to?” Cooke asks. That question also reflects a potentially disquieting familiarity with Supreme Court decisions related to traffic stops. Just last month, the Court ruled that, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, police may not extend a traffic stop for the purpose of walking a drug-sniffing dog around the vehicle. But the Court also has said that if a dog alerts to a car (or, same thing, a cop claims that the dog alerted), that is enough by itself to supply probable cause for a search, even though there are lots of reasons (including a handler’s deliberate or subconscious cues) why a dog might alert to a car that contains no contraband.
“If they’re not here within 20 minutes, I’m gone,” Cooke says. “You can leave,” the male agent says. “You can walk down the road right now….Your car’s not going anywhere….I’ll spike the tires.” After Cooke refuses to comply with his order to “stand over there” instead of “here,” they have this exchange:
CBP agent: I’m going to tell you one more time, and then I’m going to move you.
Cooke: If you touch me, I will sue your ass. Do you understand me?
CBP agent: Go for it.
Cooke: Touch me then.
CBP agent: Move over there.
Cooke: Go ahead. Touch me.
CBP agent: I’m telling you to move over there.
At this point the agent seems to grab Cooke, and soon she is lying on the ground, screaming. According to a CBP spokeswoman, the agent “deployed an electronic control device.” Naturally, the government is considering assault charges—against Cooke.
While Cooke is rolling around on the ground, screaming in pain, the agent repeatedly orders her to “get on your stomach.” Her response: “What the fuck is wrong with you?” Also this: “Are you fucking retarded?” And this: “You fucking Tased me, you asshole!” These rejoinders do not have quite the same emotional impact as “I can’t breathe,” especially since Cooke survived the incident. Still, she asks good questions.
The video ends at this point. But according to Cooke, the dog finally arrived, sniffed around her car, and did not alert. The agents opened her trunk anyway. They found no contraband.
If that account is accurate, it is hard to see how the search could have been legal. While nervousness alone might be deemed enough for reasonable suspicion, SUNY Buffalo immigration law professor Rick Su told the local NPR station, “it is not sufficient” to justify a vehicle search, which requires probable cause to believe the vehicle contains evidence of a crime. Su notes that CBP is “starting to use these checkpoints beyond their intended goal”:
It’s an immigration checkpoint. But what it seems from the video is that the interest of the officials is not so much immigration at that point. It’s something else, maybe a drug violation, or other ordinary crimes that they were investigating….This belief actually sets up a very dangerous dichotomy between the exception that’s granted for immigration and the use of immigration checkpoints to [pursue] all sorts of other law enforcement priorities….
[A checkpoint stop] really should be relatively nonintrusive. Ask questions about identification, about residency, and, as long as they are satisfied that there is no reasonable suspicion that there is an immigration violation, most people should be waved through. It should be a relatively quick check.
But because “the exception is so broad,” Su says, the feds are “using immigration checkpoints to enforce other areas of federal law, including the war on drugs.” In other words, the Supreme Court, which has explicitly rejected drug interdiction as a rationale for randomly stopping cars, has effectively allowed such stops within 100 miles of any “external boundary,” as long as the feds claim to be looking for illegal immigrants.
Even though she was preparing for a career as a CBP agent, Cooke clearly was disturbed by this development. But the Watertown Daily Times found some local residents who think her objections are much ado about nothing. “I’m all for border patrol checks,” said one. “Look at the drugs seized weekly by these that would otherwise go right onto the streets. If you have nothing to hide, why be a jerk? Just cooperate.”
Stucky – I’m very excited about two books,
— “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” … a NYT bestseller by Reza Azlan
great book Stuck…the best I’ve ever read on Jesus, the -radical-man ..even though Azlan is a Mooooslum, I do think he gave the subject of Jesus leading an anti-state campaign a a very fair shake.
Perhaps, you’d consider putting on your theologian hat and give the TBP readers a once over on your thought on the subject of Jesus the rabble-rouser?..if for no other reason, just to cause bb’s brain to explode.
@joe, Democritus held that everything is already in the world and it is merely a matter of combination and re-combination of eternal bits. Stands for words too.
Ecclesiastics states there is nothing new under the sun.
Copyrights have become a weapon to silence all of us that haven’t made it yet.
Patents too, Obama and the Demoncrats, helped by the Repukes, settled that. Major corporations get first dibs on patents that are rejected for application issues. Did you know the vast majority are?
Do you really think that at this point in the written history that everything is not being plagiarized in some form? We are quickly reaching the point where our government has allowed singular ownership of WORDS and ACTIONS. You, obviously, think it is a great idea, you must currently make your money off it. Good luck in the future unless you are a really, big fish in your pond.
Everything has already been written. Guess then we should just shut down all attempts at communication except maybe FB, Twitter and the 24/7 spoon fed propaganda of our betters.
You are a tool. I plagiarized that from someone, but doesn’t make it any less true.
suck it Joe, there is nothign new under the sun.
“Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that ‘plagiarism’ farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men — but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly small portion of it is his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington’s battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing — and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”
Mark Twain
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/05/10/mark-twain-helen-keller-plagiarism-originality/
@Flash, thanks for the book recommendation, that was just noted in my book list
@Chicago, thank you. That was so beautifully and simply and truthfully stated.
The most ironic part about Lincoln “loving” the slaves is that he never declared them HUMAN, with HUMAN rights. Yet the modern American-African has idolized and sainted him. If Catholicism was our official religion, I believe he would be a declared Saint even though he NEVER uttered the simplest, most basic, most undisputed words, that God/Creator created ALL people (plants and animals), and that as such “slaves” are HUMAN and to be given all the rights contained within that term. We could fix marriage “rights” (rules) the same way, have the government declare the State is no longer in the marriage business and give it back to the churches and town halls, the way it used to be before this modern need for statistics and government power mechanisms.
Funny how the urban community demands so much, but they have never, with the exception of Dr. King and he only barely, demanded to just be labeled human. Just as it is strange to me, that the churches feel they need the State’s stamp of approval to get the approval of their God. I’ve been searching and searching but I’ve yet to see where Jesus tells me I need to go begging hat in hand, innoculation in arm, to my local jackboot representive and hand over shekels to sanctify that which God owns. But, I’m in the Christian minority, so I must be wrong. Yep, that’s it, must be. Must get in line with the PoPo before God lets me into the Pearly Gates, everybody knows its true. (reason #1 why I broke from them)
Need for control, evil and insanity lies in the hearts of men. We are at the tail end of this cycle of advancement. Every other civilization has experienced massive set backs and die offs. We are way overdue for one.
This time, though, it won’t be nature/God, though it will be blamed on it/Him, it will be man’s undying worship and belief in the all mighty Science and State. We are doomed by our own hubris at playing God.
‘Tis okay though. I’m coming to peace with it, but I’ll never like it.
“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free,” Jefferson said, “expects what never was and never will be.”
With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape. Proverbs 11:9
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17
I get pull into the same border checks going into Canada and into Mexico and never had a problem. Its all attitudes. Be nice and border security (guards) will usually be nice back.They have pulled their dogs inside the door a couple times. Only thing that happened was little bb went on the attack. He’s a good guard cat .This truck is his house and he protects it.
@TE… I laughed and laughed at this… My hub led me to believe he was someone he most definitely is not. He, literally, did not show this to me until after I said “I do.”
I’ve always said that my first husband turned around at the altar and turned into a different person. It seems like (in my memory) that the trip back down the aisle was a lecture about all the things wrong with me that he was getting ready to change now that I was “his” wife.
I gave him 5 years to try. Then I gave him a divorce.
@Maggie, I gave the first one 8 years, this one got a much longer pass because of my wee one. I would never have agreed to have her had I thought for one minute that it would turn out this way. Best laid plans of mice and men.
Had there been no wee one in the oven, this thing would have never happened let alone lasted five years.
I would have run like my hair was on fire within a year of living with him. Run fast, run free.
Instead it seems the universe has other plans for me. So it goes….
@bb, what a good little Statist you are. Not too much of an inconvenience pissing on that old Constitution now, is it?
People exactly like you are the reason people like store owners and kids on trains get lawfully produced money stolen.
Your God must be so proud of you for complying to the Man.
TE , don’t blame me for your poor decisions in life. It’s not my fault you are in a dreadful marriage.
I’m just telling people the easiest way to avoid trouble with the police is to be respectful of their authority. You will not win an arguing with a cop during a traffic stop. You could end up in jail or dead. Be smart. Wait for your time in court.
bb
TE is a fine lady who is open and shares certain aspects of her life here. And you shit on it. I have NEVER seen her blame ANYONE …. least of all pond-scum such as you, as if she sits around and thinks “Hey, this is that asswipe bb’s fault!” …. your arrogance is only exceeded by your stupidity.
I hate you. And so does Jeebus. And so does your stupid fuckin’ cat.
@TE… I know I haven’t been here in a while, but I do remember my lessons learned. Don’t. Take. The. Bait.
I know good and well good decisions have more than compensated for the best laid plans that aft went aglay or awry or whatever direction Burns supposed they went. If I hadn’t married the tyrant disguised as a nice guy prior to the wedding, I might not have ended up where at I am now. (That stupid rule about prepositions? Is one with which up with I will not put much longer.)
@Stucky…. well, good. You are here to fight off the ignoramuses for a while. I’ve got to get the ticks off my dogs. You get the ticks outta here.
You can hate all you want but it doesn’t change anything. Be respectful to police during a traffic stop.Don’t argue with them ,don’t yell ,don’t call them names like pond scum and don’t make threats. Simple. Wait for your time in court if you have a disagreement.
Stucky , TE is constantly bitching about her marriage. She doesn’t piss and moan as much as you but it is nauseating.
She should have been a lesbian.
Little bb loves me with all his little heart. You’re just suffering from CATISM
Maggie , go pick your ticks.This is male discussion anyways.
@bb… when you grow a pair join the discussion then.
@ bb… learn how to use commas and then grow a pair. And if you tell me me to stay out of male discussion “anyways” one more time you dickless prick, I’ll bitchslap you.
Ooooo! Catfight! My money is on Maggie by bitchslap knockout.
Flash – that Nick Gillespie video was great! Thanks for posting it. You can’t be all bad, Flash, especially since you like Dickens too.
Watch this man die right before your eyes. Very exciting!! Turns out he had a sudden attack of sickle cell anemia …. so say the copfuks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zN0MbaoDK0&feature=player_detailpage
backwardsevolution , thanks .I’m pretty sure SSS loved the vid as well. He used to be a frothing at the mouth statist drug warrior ,you know…that is until he found TBP and the word of Quinn ….now he spend his days piddling about the gold course in his penny loafers , impressing all his old high pocket pals with blabber on how the CIA killed JFK, and the DEA is nothing but a government owned drug smuggling operation. …he has even talked about giving up his G-man pension in protest of the NSA, the Patriot Act and phony war on terror …and by James, I think he means it!
Stucky – that is absolutely the most disgusting video. He voluntarily commits himself for a two day sentence, it’s upped to seven days, and all of a sudden he’s dead? WTF?
He apparently had blood coming from his ears, nose and mouth. I once heard of someone whose airway was obstructed by some object, and the same thing happened: blood coming from the ears, nose and mouth. His first mistake was not answering that initial guard (perhaps he wasn’t able to answer him? or maybe he was just pissed off at having his sentence upped – who knows) because that’s when the goon squad came in. They probably blocked his airway with their boots/knees, maybe crushed his trachea.
The video does say, though, that “At some point Brown appeared to have an episode in his cell that caused him to bleed, it’s not clear from where.” Did the guy injure himself before the goons even got inside the cell? And even if he did, the cops should have backed off when he was telling them that he couldn’t breathe.
If this happened to my son…..well, hold me back!
Stucky is obviously a gelded little pseudo-intellectual twit. And one with anger issues, to boot. The perfect combination for doing nothing more productive and being nothing of more substance than an internet troll, posting trite, angry comments from Momma’s MacIntosh in the basement.
awwwwww ….. poor little Joe ……… he’s all butthurt and stuff
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Fuck off you fucking fuckwit.
Wow, BeaLoser, you sure are articulate and all.
Joe – you will find this site composed almost entirely of trolls who love nothing better than bending little ignorant pissants like you over the tree stump and delivering a good old Deliverancing.
So far you have mis-judged Stucky, and had a really snappy comeback for Bea. Little fairies like you last about 24 hours around here. Suspect that is the last we will here from you.
But you are welcome to stay anyway. Maybe you will learn something.
I almost posted a bitchspanking for this joe last night but decided maybe I was just being overly sensitive after getting angered at bb again… but am glad to see that others jumped.
Looks like Joe is going to shit on everyone here.
Attention folks!! We have 2 weapons to get rid of such human vermin fuksticks;
— 1) Please vote down EVERY post Joe makes …. regardless of content.
— 2) Ignore him completely. Treat him as a non-entity. Just as I have on this post. Really. Don’t respond to ANYTHING he writes. It will only encourage the slimescum to continue.
The above two actions will eventually drive such cockroaches as him away. It always does.
Joe won’t be trolling TBP anymore.
@Stucky… I was talking to my long drink of water husband of 22 plus years today how much I enjoy being back online reading the articles at TBP again and how there are new even more annoying trolls on the site now after my long hiatus. I will take your wise advice and try to follow my own to TE… and Not. Take. The. Bait. Again.
Stuck – but I enjoy stomping crap out the morons. Ignoring them probably works pretty well on these cockroaches, but active eradication is lots of fun.
Kick joe’s RANK anus right off this site. Speakin uh anus, Billah just come in and he was screaming bloody murder. His hernia been threatenin fer some time to fall straight out his butt hole, and there it finally was, his intestines dangling out from his mumu. The smell is putrid. I have ter go now – gonna try tobuse use a baseball bat ter ram his shit back up in there. Say uh prayer fer us, would ya sticky?
Admin —- BRAVO!!!
BW — Billy’s been absent for a few days. I HOPE YOU DIDN’T HURT HIM!!! Give him a gum-job, please, and tell him we’re thinking about him.
“great book Stuck…the best I’ve ever read on Jesus, the -radical-man ..even though Azlan is a Mooooslum, I do think he gave the subject of Jesus leading an anti-state campaign a a very fair shake.” ——— flash
In the introduction (few read them) he states that his parents were nominal in-name-only Muslims. But when they fled Iran and came to America that he accepted Jesus as his Savior during high school, and while at a summer camp. Of course, it didn’t “stick”. lol
Your assessment of “great book” is spot on. I love it. About 75% done with it. I’ll read it a second time with my highlighter pen ready to underscore all his really good comments. BTW … it was “bargain priced” at about eight bucks. What a steal!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eF7PnU-0pb8