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Originally Posted by Moses
You can detain people for a reasonable amount of time for questioning. Handcuffing them is technically an arrest. You CANNOT arrest citizens for being in the area of a crime. BIG screw up.
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I'm no lawyer, but before the cops can even detain someone, they need reasonable, articulable suspicion (aka RAS). Being an adult male operating one of 19 vehicles while the cops are searching for a guy in a car should not pass for RAS in any court in the country. Still, all the sheeple played along and consented to searches of their cars, which will probably help the cops in any lawsuit. I wonder if the cops will try an exigent circumstances defense.