User Clip: Mass Incarceration & The Racial Under-Caste

The Supreme Court... has eviscerated 4th amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, granting to the police the authority to stop, frisk, search just about anyone anyone without any probable cause or reasonable suspicion -- not a shred of evidence of criminal activity -- as long as they get consent. Now what's consent? Consent is when a police officer walks up to a young man with one hand on his gun and says, "Son, put your arms up in the air so I can search you, see if you got anything on you. The kid says, Uh huh, raising hands above his head. That young man just waived his 4th amendment rights. close