•  Bosco   ( @Bosco@lemmy.ml ) 
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    8 days ago

    Speak to them through the closed/locked door, DO NOT open the door or exit your home unless they are serving a warrant, at which point you should be asking to see it.

    Stepping outside can potentially impact your protection under different interpretations of constitutional rights and also opens the doors to a litany of manufactured charges/claims from the police to justify entering the home or seizing individuals.

    • They got aggressive and threatening and/or assaulted an officer.
    • I saw ______ inside the home when they opened the door.
    • I detected the scent/signs of ______.

    Getting back into your house once outside is infinitely more likely to trigger the cops to escalate the situation compared to never exposing yourself to that rush by not opening the door to begin with.

    Not to mention the garbage where somehow an officer can place their foot/body into the open doorway of you open the door at which point if you attempt to close the door they claim assaulting an officer.

    Don’t open the door. Don’t go outside to speak with them. If they’ve got a warrant they’re not going to be asking.

  •  Mereo   ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) 
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    258 days ago

    Canadians, do not follow this guide. I saw a Canadian on YouTube who thought Canada had the same constitution as the US and it didn’t end well.

  •  Auli   ( @Auli@lemmy.ca ) 
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    37 days ago

    Doesn’t work for traffic stops. See so many YouTube videos where they are pulled over and say this repeatedly. And just make things worse.

        •  stoy   ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 
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          17 days ago

          Yep, but putting your hand in your pocket, and pressing the lock button ten times is faster than taking your device out of your pocket, press vol+, press vol- and hold the lock button untill you get the prompt to turn off the device.

          Also, even after a restart like that I have had my iPhones still default to biometrics.