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Rhino wrote:
Occasionally during these police chase videos, the suspect is absolutely >nuts and screams at the top of their lungs as being taken to the police >station. We're talking about volumes that would genuinely endanger the >officer's hearing. Or they're just making no sense at all or issuing
vile curses to the officer and the police department. Would there be a
legal issue with gagging them until they can be put in their cells?
I'm betting this would be fine right up until a suspect suffered medical >distress and got very sick or died because he couldn't ask for medical >assistance, at which point the police would get sued for a shit-ton of
money and would probably lose.
American law was made up by monkeys who were bribed with Burbon.
They're lawyers aren't allowed to practice law outside of the country
because their legal system is the stupidest invention since the square
wheel.
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