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1. angry_octet · 1790423845 · focus · HN ↗

   The key thing she ought to have done was not answer the door, or given any sign she was there. She should have rung an experienced criminal attorney immediately, and moved to an undisclosed location that wasn't a hotel, with a new cell phone, and let her lawyer negotiate with the police to discover what their laziness has led them to believe.

   1. icantevenhold · 1790424462 · focus · HN ↗

      Is that how it works in the US?

      When the police come and want to arrest you for triple manslaughter you just don’t open the door, and they shrug and you can let a third party “negotiate” with them for you?

      1. AngryData · 1790455592 · focus · HN ↗

         In the US you should not interact with police at all for any reason unless you are forced to. They have essencially immunity from any liabilty and can legally lie and deceive people, while civilians can be punished for even an accidental lie. They also have a profit motive to arrest people and require no legal knowledge.

         US cops can and do regularly get fet cleared for abuses because "I didn't know I wasn't suppose to violate their rights!" Meanwhile for civilians "ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law."

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