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saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
1. "You have a right to remain silent."
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:49 PM
Jul 2020

Anything you say or do can be held against you. Demand legal representation if arrested for peaceful protests.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
4. I'm actually surprised that we haven't heard from an attorney
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:51 PM
Jul 2020

representing someone who's been 'disappeared' yet.

We'd know a lot more about the mechanisms of what's happening if we did.

mahina

(17,647 posts)
10. I watched it. Summary: don't talk to the police. It cannot help you but can hurt you
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 06:13 PM
Jul 2020

Anything exculpatory that you tell them is inadmissible, as it is according to court rules hearsay, but somehow anything incriminating that you say is evidence against you.


There’s no winning once you start talking.

C_U_L8R

(45,001 posts)
6. Have any abductees spoken to lawyers?
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 04:53 PM
Jul 2020

Where are these citizens being imprisoned? Do they have any rights at all? Where are the lawsuits and injunctions? Where is the real police and military? What are our representatives doing to protect us and save our communities? This trumpshit won't stop without serious determined action.

Liberal In Texas

(13,548 posts)
9. Saw someplace one of the abductees early on said that as soon has he said
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 05:44 PM
Jul 2020

he wanted a lawyer they let him go.

They're doing such illegal shit I don't know what difference that makes, but that was what he said.

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