Ben was in Las Vegas for DEFCON, the world’s largest annual hacker convention. Ben’s day job is in the field of cybersecurity. He was staying at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. Around 11pm on Sunday, August 14, he’s startled out of a sleep, in his dark hotel room. There’s pounding on the door. He walks to the peep hole in his underwear, peers through and sees what appears to be armed law enforcement in tactical gear.
He’s ordered out of the room, in his underwear. They then search his room for firearms. They’re not law enforcement, but rather the hotel’s “Special Response Team.” They refuse to explain the basis for their belief that Ben has firearms in his room.
More: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/08/16/hotel-swat-team-raids-customers-room-and-searches-for-firearms/
Video to submit? https://forms.gle/HmwnDQKvwvYPxe967
FAIR USE NOTICE This video may contain copyrighted material; the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available for the purposes of criticism, comment, review and news reporting which constitute the fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes such as criticism, comment, review and news reporting is not an infringement of copyright.
NOTE: We don’t condone threats or violence of any kind. If you are upset or outraged by acts of government misconduct featured in this video, we encourage you to utilize lawful means of expression, including becoming involved in the political process, as well as seeking accountability through the judicial system.
source
I forgot to mention it since this video centers on the issue of private vs. official action, but yes, assuming official action could be established, or in the event this involved REAL law enforcement officers, 4th Amendment protections absolutely apply to tenants of hotel rooms. Thus a warrant would be required, absent voluntary consent or exigent circumstances.
So this tool made the choice to violate his rights. With no supervisor. Of course he believes he doesn’t have to answer for his actions.
So what gave them the suspicion.
HOW MANY OTHER ROOMS WERE LOOKED AT LIKE THIS THEN SUE THEM
8 dollars for a coffee.omg
I want be going to vegas if they treat their occupants this way
way back in 2000 Casinos were developing 'analytics' and relationship software to score customers and guest against workers and known card counters to spot players in bed with table employees. Its not a stretch to see that now they have 2A blacklists and every guest is screened against it.
I know this, because I worked with this software and yes, 'others' use it today.
we are NEVER staying at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel
Strike that hotel casino off the list.
What is going on in this country people with badges obviously tried to run this country they will find out that they don't run this country and they are going to suffer the consequences for pushing their weight which they have none.
This hotel is probably still mafia owned and run. The last thing they want is a law abiding guest who could fight back against them.
Crooked cops. Karma, karma whete are you??
Now that's great hospitality services for a customer! At least we know they don't have qualified immunity. He can at least appeal to the corporate headquarters.
WOW OUTTA CONTROLL COPS BONE HEADS
Likely the maid went through his stuff looking to steal and saw some gun related gear.
I actually know Ben, he's a very nice guy. Lost my respect for SRT instantly.
And we have the right to never go to your shity hotel
It ought to be illegal to enter a paying clients room without a official warrent and a police officer present and proof of all bodycams running.
I'm no fan of guns or the producers of guns but that does not change the fact that this is a clear violation of privacy.
I would have paid off an employee there to find out where that information came from.
I sure hope this guy DID NOT pay for that room. In fact I'd tell them they OWED ME a WHOLE BUNCH of money.
I always wanted a free hotel in Vegas !!!!!
🧠 ~ Hey smarty-pants lawyer, do you ever think the hotel just compiled information on their own since there are libraries worth of information publicly available for corporations that are willing to pay? But instead you fear-monger that the big bad horrible FBI is out to get you. Again, as I mentioned recently, this is why I cannot trust this channel. You provide good information sometimes, and then absolute crap other times. I could also guess that maybe you like the devil children because you just have that kind of look in your face, but could they’re not be more logical explanations to also mention?
I guess the security guards are also not as protected as cops would be by prosecutors, so you put in EarPods and wait until they illegally enter your hotel, then you blow their face off. Oops, I didn’t realize who you were because the music was so loud in my AirPods.
I don’t mind people enforcing policies and other similar things, but their hostility and aggressiveness is my problem.
Why wait until 11 pm?
Do they have the rooms bugged ?
Is this legal?
Please tell me this man is suing
The halls and rooms are video bugged.
They are Dick heads.
This will be one hotel that I will not book an event at for any reason.
They had someone either go into his room or they have cameras in his room.
Sue the shit out of all them and the hotel
He should have said do you have a warrant before he opened the door. Then make them force the door when they said no. And ask them are you the police.
Now he knows.
He must've told a guest or someone that he was going shooting with his friend.
Thanks for what you do.
Glad SOAR and SFA are off the strip
It’s either facial recognition and you have been identified as a good person of some kind or it is in checking your hands secretly with a certain kind of light they shot GSR on your hands
He's right. They found out he was a firearms man and got their panties knotted. Revenge raid.
A hotel with its own goon squad! Things just get specialer and specialer out in corporate land!
That head security MAGGOT kept saying that when he asked the customer earlier if he had a firearm the customer said yes. This being so why didnt the head security MAGGOT address the problem them and there. This alone makes me believe that they had another agenda and yes they did go into his room earlier
Yeah, I'd be fucking livid as well. I think he had it right to 'eat a collective dick' and to 'collective to go fuck themselves'
Then again, I never would have opened that door for a search w/o the actual police present. Tell me to pack my shit and leave if you must, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.
Please sue the hotel out of business so that nobody can ever place their ass in a chair there! Places like this in the people that run them need to be destroyed.
My wife and I went to Ceasars palace. We drove up. I handed the bellhop my gun. When we got to the room, the gun was there.
The hotel is not a private country. They work for us.
So what they are saying is not to stay at their hotel! As an American we are allowed to carry a fire arm where we sleep camp grounds, hotels, all allowed
Then nock on every door of that floor cowards
I wouldn't have opened that safe at all, ESPECIALLY if they were real LEO's, because that would be a good way to get yourself shot DEAD. Nor would real cops allow him to open it if they suspected that there were a firearm in there, out of concern for their own safety. That Drew Carry security detail is a frickin' JOKE !
Well I sure am not going to stay at that hotel hfs
the private military is against the law in every state