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This sort of behavior happens all the time: cops show up to a private residence, they knock on the door. What are your rights in that situation? What rights to the police have to do what they’re doing? Let’s make some things clear. Read more: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/08/08/cops-at-your-door-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know/ The WV video from last week: https://youtu.be/LCBd6Mfon-Y source

You’re home asleep in your bed. It’s two in the morning. Suddenly, you hear shouting outside. Three police officers are outside your house, shining lights, shouting at you to exit your home. You’ve done nothing wrong. You’re afraid. You comply with their orders, because they’re the police. There’s three of them, armed with the authority

Remember the video I posted last week showing the building inspection search entry into the woman’s home? Here’s new bodycam of their Anne Frank joke. Let’s clear up the law on when the government can search your home for an “inspection” as opposed to a criminal investigation….. Original video: https://youtu.be/93KwL-so-Zk I’ll post the law to

In 2019, on a rainy April night in Sterling Heights, Michigan, 18- year-old Logan Davis had just gotten off work at a sandwich shop and was waiting under a nearby awning for his dad to pick him up and drive him home. A few minutes later, Davis ended up hand-cuffed in the back of a

Civil Rights Law Live Stream discussion – with Kentucky Civil Rights Attorney Chris Wiest – August 11, 2022. Some big updates on Chris’s cases, and more. We’ll be discussing an update on this case: https://youtu.be/HmRipNEYqEI More at the link: Kentucky Officers Denied Qualified Immunity and Headed to Trial source

Big update in Chris Wiest’s case in Kentucky, where several Kentucky police officers are being held accountable for their misconduct. More at link: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/08/11/kentucky-officers-denied-qualified-immunity-and-headed-to-trial/ source

I want to expand on the legal issues presented in yesterday’s video a little more. Yesterday I posted a video on the issue of warning fellow motorists about a speed trap via flashing the lights on your car. If that is protected speech, and as a result of that protected speech, you get pulled over,

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

A federal lawsuit was filed in Atlanta, where body cam footage shows Clayton County Police Officer Gregory Tillman breaking down a woman’s door after she refused to give a chess set back to a man who had moved out. All of this happened in front of the woman’s son.  According to news reports, this involved