Thanks to liberal activist judges, the state of Massachusetts has now become the testing ground of radical legal theories inspired by the controversial Black Lives Matter.
Like any number of states in the country, Massachusetts became the site of controversy back in 2011 when police arrested an African-American man identified only as Warren and a companion of his. Citing the fact that both Warren and his associate were wearing clothes that matched the description of criminal suspects, officers attempted to detain them only for the two men to try and flee. Eventually, law enforcement apprehended them and after carrying out a search, discovered Warren had an unregistered gun on his person.
After he was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm, Warren sued the police and argued that they had no right to detain him. Incredibly enough, the Massachusetts Supreme Court sided with Warren, saying that not only did Warren have a right to flee from police, but any black citizen would have had the right to.
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Great way to catch a bullet !!!!
Unbelievable! I would never want to be a policeman in Massachusetts!
The same law says the police can shoot them when they run.
From what I’ve read, efforts are being made to clean up the Boston PD. If it were that easy then racism wouldn’t exist at all, but you and I know that isn’t the case. While I’m not up to speed on my legalese, my interpretation of the ruling does not say that black people can run away from police, contrary to how this post presents it. “In what later became a viral (and frequently misinterpreted) ruling, in September 2016 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cited “a pattern of racial profiling of black [men] in the city of Boston” as reason in part not to view one defendant’s avoidance of a police encounter as inherent justification for a stop and seizure.” The argument is that flight does not provide evidence of a suspect’s state of mind or consciousness of guilt. IMHO, that is a far cry from saying that all black men can run from police. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has not created a new law, because that’s not how laws are made, and it isn’t saying anything other than that “that systemic racism in the Boston Police Department may be considered in conjunction with a suspect’s decision to flee from police during a stop”. http://www.snopes.com/massachusetts-run-from-police/
What????
And the accompanying right is to be shot
Massachuetts are asking for big trouble ,,,will get people killed …but i really dont BELIEVE THIS
And you wonder why they get shot……
WTF
Better be really fast to outrun a bullet.