keep your hands up and explain u are scared to make sudden movements and ask them to get it for you?

I'm just trying to figure out what we can do to prevent being taken as a threat.

hands up helps but has failed so many...


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"Officer, my registration and insurance information is in my glove box. Is it okay for me to retrieve it?"

^ I had to say this to an officer a few times


Still no guarantee I won't get popped tho.

Once I got pulled over at about 3am and they hopped out of the squad car and walked up on me so quickly that I just put my hands up in the air. The cop gave me a funny look and I told him that I was kinda shook and didn't want there to be any misunderstandings. He looked kinda hurt, but he got it. This was back in like 04'

i put on the interior light, roll down the windows and put my bible on my lap.

i coulda typed this exact reply...

with the license thing once you're stopped but they can't search your car without permission.

either way, they should give you reason for stopping you.

get to the car. But like was said above, sometimes they might run up on you too quickly for that.

The "best" move, I guess is to state each move in request form, like you mentioned.

A lot of movement is prolly gonna look like you stashing something.

I won't change my normal behavior. I haven't been asked for registration in forever. they just ask for my license.

I normally have that in my hand when they reach the window. I roll my window down enough to slide the license though and answer their questions.

my ins. is every 6 months and i forget to put the new card in. Once i handed a cop one from 2 years ago lol

they stopped asking for alladat years ago in GA. they pull all of it up from their car, so they only need to see that you can legally drive unless you're getting a ticket.

failing to produce them can result in a criminal charge for resisting or obstructing.

failing to carry them w/you while driving can result in a criminal charge for unlicensed driving or something similar.

if they tell you to produce them try telling the cop where you have the documents and that you will be reaching for them as you were told.

that won't necessarily save you from being shot though. ask Philando Castile. well, i dunno if he told that cop that he was reaching for the documents the cop told him to produce. but he got shot after doing what the officer told him to do.

have either u gotta 20/80 chance of explainin your story and not getting jammed up

then again u a chic so its 40/60

All my info is in a Manila envelope marked DWB. They can get that shit out of the glove box while I chill in the back seat honoring the ritual of putting black people in chains.

>All my info is in a Manila envelope marked DWB. They can get
>that shit out of the glove box while I chill in the back seat
>honoring the ritual of putting black people in chains.

I know that's a safer place than the street and for real it's clearly a ritual to white culture -- something it MUST do in order to validate itself and I'd rather stand with the chained than those doing the chaining.

And if they try to go Abner Louima on me well -- I guess at least two folks won't be getting home at the end of the night.

>All my info is in a Manila envelope marked DWB.

having a folder like this readily available is a great idea. I can't co-sign the other stuff you said because asking to get put in handcuffs isn't a great look, but for folks in this thread, what do you have in this Driving While Black folder?

thass it.

you don't have a right to have a lawyer present for police questioning during a traffic stop that's related to a traffic offense b/c you're not in police custody (though you are stopped by police - i know it's weird). you are only being briefly detained by police during a traffic stop and the detention is happening in public so none of the pressures of a traditional police custodial interrogation (like in a room in a police station) are present. so SCOTUS says you don't have a right to a lawyer in that moment.

basically, that dog won't hunt.

thank you.

finna be ANNOUNCEMENTS and PROCLAMATIONS

and turning an old smartphone into a dashcam if I can freak it

will make a diff?

in the box


if he's already got his hand on his piece and fire/fear in his eye, then god bless

it can turn an easy situation bad quickly. we all just have to do what makes sense in that moment.

lol