LIFE-SAVING TIPS FOR BLACK PASSENGERS

Life-saving tips during Motor Vehicle and Stop -Frisk 

Remember, in most cases, you will come out fine during almost any non-felony-related motor vehicle stop as long as you are courteous and polite. Don’t try to be cute or a smart mouth, even if your parent or relative is a police officer, or your father is the Chief of Police, or you are the Mayor’s son. The bottom line is during a motor vehicle investigation, the officer on scene will decide your fate based on his/her discretion and that will not be reviewed until a court date. By that time, you already will have been arrested, pepper sprayed or tazered. Some of you need to leave all of the homemade “street lawyer” debate for home or after the stop. If talking is what you want to do, do it after the motor vehicle stop is over and you are well on your way. Call a friend and talk about it over the phone. However, if using a cell phone while driving is illegal in your state, then I suggest that you turn on your favorite song and relax.

Must read: Life-saving tips during Motor Vehicle and Stop -Frisk 

1. Be extra nice
2. Be extra polite
3. Be extra cooperative
4. Be extra attentive
5. Be honest (the police ain’t stupid)
6. Be extra respectful
7. Don’t get loud
8. Don’t fidget around or fumble about the car
9. Only make a move when the officer tells you to
10. Roll down your window at least halfway
11. Stay in your car unless ordered or asked to get out
12. Have all of your paperwork in order
13. Turn off your radio
14. Turn off the car until the officer tells you to turn it on
15. Don’t get on the cell phone during the stop
16. Don’t try to intimidate the officer with whom you know
17. Don’t get mad when the officer gives you a ticket
18. Don’t talk back or try and get the last word in
19. Use the same level of respect you would when talking with your grandparent
20. Don’t smoke a cigarette throughout the stop

(Taken from page 60), A Black Mans Guide To Law Enforcement In America

 

Life-Saving Tips For Black Passengers

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