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31. If you rolled your window, can they just reach in and unlock the car?

Reply to Jedi Guy (Reply #21)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 12:50 AM

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If Cops Demand Your Window Down, DO THIS... [View all] Joinfortmill 17 hrs ago OP

What worries me is that these roid-raging thugs will interpret someone getting out as a threat-- viva la 17 hrs ago #1

You only get out if they tell you to nt EX500rider 16 hrs ago #6

Seldom do I watch YouTube's because they take too long to get to the point..but this was outstanding, easy to watch and Ninga 16 hrs ago #2

Here is a little bit different take on this... NowsTheTime 16 hrs ago #3

Transcript. If you can't copy and paste or print out a video. usonian 15 hrs ago #13

really good information Roc2020 16 hrs ago #4

not necessarily good information cab67 16 hrs ago #5

Basically stay in the car with window down & hands in sight unless told to exit EX500rider 16 hrs ago #7

When ordered to get out of your car, lock the door behind you. It becomes another 4th Amendment blockade and the cops OMGWTF 15 hrs ago #14

If they don't have permission or probable cause EX500rider 13 hrs ago #19

It looks like an advertisement. I say situational awareness is the first rule of self defense. littlemissmartypants 16 hrs ago #8

In what neighborhood? Cirsium 15 hrs ago #9

+1 leftstreet 13 hrs ago #20

Would be nice to have a written list of do's and don't's . . . AverageOldGuy 15 hrs ago #10

Here you go. Jedi Guy 12 hrs ago #21

I used to get a lot of reels about how people act when a cop pulls them over, or otherwise approaches them. mucholderthandirt 9 hrs ago #24

To the best of my knowledge, ICE aren't cops in the way we normally think of them. Jedi Guy 34 min ago #34

If you rolled your window, can they just reach in and unlock the car? question everything 3 hrs ago #31

They could, yes. Jedi Guy 44 min ago #33

Good luck rolling the window up & locking the door ...instead simply state that "I do not concent to any searches" NowsTheTime 15 hrs ago #11

Yes, You start rolling up your windows before getting out..... Zackzzzz 14 hrs ago #18

Transcript, in case you can'r memorize videos. usonian 15 hrs ago #12

So we should assume they won't prevent us from closing the door? Raven123 15 hrs ago #15

Can't they just unlock the door Mossfern 15 hrs ago #16

The exception to everything he said.... Staph 15 hrs ago #17

Also bad advice in my opinion EX500rider 10 hrs ago #23

I live in a rural area where the closest populated area might be 10 miles away. MichMan 6 hrs ago #26

I haven't forgotten the murder of Cara Knott by on-duty CHP Craig Peyer in 1986 chia 6 hrs ago #27

I don't find it very good advice in my opinion EX500rider 10 hrs ago #22

I liked Chris Rock's video better Polybius 6 hrs ago #25

That's a good one! 👍nt Raine 1 hr ago #32

It is probably good legal advice for a routine traffic stop, but it will not work with ICE Bluetus 6 hrs ago #28

"Understand that in every state AFAIK, assault does not require any physical contact." MichMan 5 hrs ago #29

That is the law. But the difference is the police don't get to decide that. Bluetus 4 hrs ago #30