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Oppose police seizure of 2 black men at gun point & destruction of property for listening to music in S.Ct 14-7455

Created by S.W. on December 22, 2014

Three white police officers yelled ‘DON’T MOVE’, ‘HANDS UP’ & ‘IT’S NOT WORTH IT” interrupting the music on a sunny October day as Josh Williams & Phillip Porter were sitting in a city park preparing to lawfully have a beer. Phillip noticed that the police guns were pointed at their heads just before the police commands were made to these two black men sitting in a car and listening to music and he slowly raised his hands in surrender.The police then forcibly removed the pair, searched and handcuffed them and after Josh admitted he lawfully had a gun in the glove compartment he was also told he was “under arrest’. Lower federal courts characterized the seizure by the officers as a consensual encounter and found at most it was a reasonable detention a.k.a. Terry Stop - brief stop & frisk

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