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Welcome to this episode on knowing your constitutional rights to protect and preserve your life.
It’s 3 a.m. and you are lying in bed asleep, “dead” to the world. Suddenly the front door explodes – you hear loud voices screaming POLICE! SEARCH WARRANT! SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!
Knowing your Constitutional rights may protect your legal interests and work towards saving your life – but you’ll still need a new doorframe and front door to your home.
As we’ve been drilling deep, vast and wide on policing in America, with this empowering episode we share what you need to know to protect and preserve your rights and to stay safe from unlawful or illegal government intrusion in your home, car, workplace, the streets, and if you are arrested and taken to a police station.
This episode can be a companion to the “conversation” that so many parents of children of color have had to have with their kids.
We’re not afraid to take a stand to provide helpful information to the people. Countless people have gone before us, fought, bled and died for the right to be free and to protect and preserve the rights that are enshrined in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. This “experiment” in liberty is delicate and our democracy hangs in the balance.
The U.S. Constitution provides a basic minimum of protection for individual rights, while leaving states free to enact laws that protect those rights more broadly.
We support the importance of the rule of law in society. Without it there would be anarchy. At the same time, we push for and demand Constitutional policing where officers enforce the law with courtesy, professionalism and respect to and for the U.S. Constitution and all of its hard-fought freedoms.
Breonna Taylor wasn’t afforded her Constitutional rights. George Floyd had his civil rights violated under the color of authority. Both are dead. Both should be alive today.
Your rights are crucial, and they belong to you – if you don’t protect them, who will?
What you say to the police is crucially important. We know firsthand of a young, poor, black man who simply told the truth to the police, placing himself at the scene where a murder was committed, and now he finds himself charged with capital murder, simply by being present where the crime took place.
We all are very well-versed on our Miranda warnings from watching our favorite police dramas on TV. These rights stem from the Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona 1966.
“You have the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney, that anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law” etc. Each of these rights is precious, and you need to know and use them if confronted by law enforcement.
In the past few years, elected officials have expanded the already wide powers of the police, enacting “must identify statutes”. 23 U.S. states have such laws. Tune in to find out if your state is one of them.
Tune in and be empowered as we continue to serve you to build trust, relationships, awareness and mutual understanding that can help to save your life. This episode is action packed!
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Note well: No legal advice is being disseminated within this podcast episode.