4th of July DUI Checkpoint - Drug Dogs, Searched without Consent, while Innocent
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters cite it as an example of police cueing drug dogs to justify searches.
What it is
A driver films a police DUI checkpoint on the 4th of July where a drug dog alerts on his car and he is searched without consent, though he broke no laws. He is released without charges after officers learn he was recording.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2014 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Recommends nickpsecurity · 2016-01 · on “Federal cops gets pulled over by TN cops, car illegally searched”
There's a lot of speculation in articles and comments despite video evidence available for this sort of thing. Here's a step-by-step video of what they do for anyone interested that also shows them cue the dog: [this video]
Cites jonathanp12 · 2014-12 · on “The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule”
I don't like the idea of animals being able to determine whether a person gets their 4th amendment right or not. Also getting "caught" with $350,000 is irksome but theres probably been enough comments on here about civil forfeiture lately. EDIT: reason for my opinion: [this video]
Cites radiorental · 2015-08 · on “Court rules drug dog barely more accurate than a coin flip is good enough”
You can watch this 6 minute video of a stop, I've linked to where the officer was caught triggering the search [this video] It happens.