If Cops Demand Your Window Down, DO THIS...

[Joinfortmill]

My words: Given the environment we now live in, you never know what's going to happen out there. The most important step is: When asked to exit your car, do so and LOCK the door behind you.

Marc breaks down:
– When rolling your window down actually helps you
– Why refusing to exit your car is a huge mistake
– The exit-and-lock strategy that keeps cops out of your vehicle
– Exactly what to say (and NOT say) on the roadside
– How to deny consent the right way

This isn’t about arguing with police.
It’s about protecting your rights and giving your lawyer something to work with later.

[viva la]

1. What worries me is that these roid-raging thugs will interpret someone getting out as a threat--

and shoot you or arrest you. Remember the young black woman Sandra Bland who was charged with "resisting arrest and assault" and later found hanged in her cell? The "officer" saw her every gesture and movement as "resistance".

[EX500rider]

6. You only get out if they tell you to nt

[Ninga]

2. Seldom do I watch YouTube's because they take too long to get to the point..but this was outstanding, easy to watch and

his explanations clear. Many thanks!

[NowsTheTime]

3. Here is a little bit different take on this...

[usonian]

13. Transcript. If you can't copy and paste or print out a video.

https://rentry.co/mhe55iad

[Roc2020]

4. really good information

[cab67]

5. not necessarily good information

In fact, it could be dangerous and backfire badly.

Depending on why you were pulled over, the police are allowed to break your window out.

[EX500rider]

7. Basically stay in the car with window down & hands in sight unless told to exit

They have the right to tell you to exit, see Pennsylvania v. Mimms and refusal to get out can get your window broke & you dragged out.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_v._Mimms

[OMGWTF]

14. When ordered to get out of your car, lock the door behind you. It becomes another 4th Amendment blockade and the cops

can't get into it without a warrant or probable cause.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. It looks like an advertisement. I say situational awareness is the first rule of self defense.

Every situation is different and deserves a separate assessment.

[Cirsium]

9. In what neighborhood?

In what neighborhood would any of this advice work? And for whom would it work?

"How to survive a police state when you are of the right ethnicity and in the right neighborhood."

[AverageOldGuy]

10. Would be nice to have a written list of do's and don't's . . .

. . . so we don't have to slog through a rambling YouTube video with a shouting, hand-waving narrator. Gave up after 15 seconds of it.

[NowsTheTime]

11. Good luck rolling the window up & locking the door ...instead simply state that "I do not concent to any searches"

[Zackzzzz]

18. Yes, You start rolling up your windows before getting out.....

What could go wrong?

Or do you leave the windows down,
turn off the motor, then lock the car while getting out
taking the keys with you?

[usonian]

12. Transcript, in case you can'r memorize videos.

https://rentry.co/k2cr92vf

[Raven123]

15. So we should assume they won't prevent us from closing the door?

[Mossfern]

16. Can't they just unlock the door

through the open window?

[Staph]

17. The exception to everything he said....

is if you are a woman, driving alone.

I was told by a sheriff's daughter some advice from her old man. If you are a woman driving alone, especially at night, and you see flashing lights directly behind you, turn on your flashers and drive to the nearest populated area - a gas station, a store parking lot, whatever. If you know where there is a nearby police station, go there.

Turning on your flashers says "I see you". Going to a populated space may keep you from getting raped or worse.

That advice is 30 years old, but I still think about it when I see a police car coming up behind me. Thankfully, I've never had to use it.