Border Patrol Violate Active Duty Soldier’s Fourth Amendment Rights
Source: YouTube
This video shows a fourth amendment violation, harassment, and intimidation by the Border Patrol in Uvalde, Texas. The driver is a military field grade officer, decorated for heroism, with more than two years of combat deployment time. He is driving from one American city to another and has crossed no borders.
This video shows a fourth amendment violation, harassment, and intimidation by the Border Patrol in Uvalde, Texas. The driver is a military field grade officer, decorated for heroism, with more than two years of combat deployment time. He is driving from one American city to another and has crossed no borders.In the video the BP detains him quickly and without cause later claiming he refused to answer questions concerning his citizenship. The video shows this is clearly not the case. This charge is repeated by the supervisor who then contacts his military superiors in an (unfortunately successful) attempt to leverage his military service against him.
He was detained for more than thirty minutes without cause. He was eventually told by the officers that they appreciated his cooperation and was released. The full footage was captured on five different cameras. The footage here is limited in length by upload requirements. Legal action is pending concerning this incident and several previous at the same checkpoint.
Fortunately the driver was not assaulted for his oath-required support and defense of the U.S. Constitution. That was not the case for Baptist pastor Steven Anderson who required eleven stitches and new windows for exercising his rights at a Border Patrol station. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3F6g…
As the driver in this video attests, despite having conducted hundreds of operational missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, his routine travels through this checkpoint in Uvalde Texas have given him the most concern for his personal safety.
If you are concerned about the erosion and ignoring of the very essence of freedom contained in the fourth amendment, please send this video to your Congressman with a request for an immediate investigation into this incident. To learn how you can protect yourself against such blatant abuses of law enforcement power through surveillance technology, please visit VeteransAgainstPoliceAbuse.Org.
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March 24th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
border patrol should protect Americans.
not violate them..
thank God I am not in the US.
March 24th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
what i want to know is why we do not see this on the mainstream media outlets, we as American need to wake up to the fact that we are losing our country, and for those of us who are veterans and stand true to our founding fathers need to run for any public office we can. we have seen how people lose their freedom in the country’s we have been deployed to, we can make a difference here at home.
March 24th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
I’m a bit confused, maybe somebody can clarify something here: why is there a checkpoint manned by Border Patrol in Uvalde, TX? I thought Uvalde was 50 or so miles from the Mexico border. What jurisdiction does Border Patrol have, really?
March 24th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Let’s look at this with a different perspective….hidden web cam to capture the “abusive” BP Agents…the driver was confrontational…wouldn’t comply with simple request to roll down the window and I believe that maybe some foul language was bleeped out by the editor. This gent was playing bait a cop so he could get on YouTube. We routinely deal with people from all walks of life. We attempt to enforce the laws given us dealing with illegal immigration, illegal importation of foreign goods, drugs, wanted persons/fugitives, and a world of other things/crimes/criminals that one may encounter near the U.S./ Mexico border. This is a tough job. It is made tougher by those who insist they “know their rights”. We are not out to infringe on your rights, we wish only to do our jobs enforcing the laws given us by the United States Codes of Titles 8, 18, 21, the Immigration and Nationality Act, etc. and to protect the United States and our Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic. We strive to avoid infringing on the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. I believe that Oath Keepers holds to that tenet as do BP Agents. Thank you for your service soldier…but look for someone else to bait. We’re on the same side…or we should be. You decide next time you pull into a checkpoint.
March 24th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
sounds like these agents need to be investigated for not being properly trained
March 24th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
It’s just a random check. If you got nothing to hide they just let look and be on your way. Why is there a dash camera in a POV? I am a son of immigrant parents this guy should not feel offended and stop being a prick. Just let the officers do thier job.
March 25th, 2010 at 6:19 am
The Stanley Milgram Experiment 1961 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment), recreated twice recently, proves a slavish obedience to authority, by people who should know better.
Milgram set out to prove that the Holocaust could have been carried out by any race and nation. We need to be very careful, about which group of people in treated inhumanely.
ArmyCopKin is outrageous in his opinion and reflects slavish obedience to authority. Abuse of citizens and even illegals is unwarranted. Citizens should cooperation, but younger officers of the law are too often pricks on power trips. Luckily, they normally don’t last long.
March 25th, 2010 at 7:17 am
For the record, the cameras were not hidden and were clearly visible and identified by the agents within minutes (shown by another csmera but not uploaded). The only bleeps made in the editing were the driver’s name and base name and location. Additionally the window was rolled down when he approached and the driver did comply by rolling it down more which is seen in the video. For a version of this video with annotations please visit the YouTube version as they are not showing up in the embedded version above.
March 25th, 2010 at 7:39 am
As to the comment concerning the effect the cameras may have had on the agents, it is my opinion that cameras usually induce people to act more professionally. When that isn’t the case, it is worth asking why not.
The driver requested his name and face be removed from the video. As such, it seems unlikely he orchestrated the behavior of the agents with his cameras in order to get on YouTube.
March 25th, 2010 at 9:05 am
It certainly sounds like overzealous law inforcement to me.