• [OT] Another legal question

    From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Sat Sep 5 14:09:54 2026
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    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.
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    Rhino

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  • From Attila@prochoice@here.now to rec.arts.tv on Sun Sep 6 00:04:13 2026
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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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