Published on Aug 31, 2013 TENNESSEE — Labor Day: another holiday, another excuse to push the limits of the police power over citizens. All across the state, Tennessee police will be performing another round of highly-publicized "no refusal" blood-draw DUI checkpoints this weekend. With police armed with a 2012 law that allows them to forcibly extract blood from drivers, its a bad time to be a citizen who does not consent to searches. policestateusa/2013/te... These so-called "no refusal" checkpoints involve police blocking a public road, sometimes forcing drivers into a parking lot, where they will be forced to prove their innocence to police officers. The lucky ones will be "allowed" to continue their journey down the public street after brief questioning and harassment. Drivers who draw police interest, say, for being less than thrilled about being subjected to police checkpoints on American streets, may be put through field sobriety tests and may ultimately told that they will either voluntarily submit to a search, or they will be forcibly be subjected to a search. I am referring to breath and blood searches. This Labor Day weekend, at least a dozen counties in Tennessee will be launching the "no refusal" checkpoints, according to NewsChannel5. The state has been rolling out the checkpoints en masse on holiday weekends, getting the public acclimated to the idea of mandatory blood draws in the land of the free. FAIR USE / SOURCE: newschannel5/story/232... youtube/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=S-pUSBdBfUc
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:15:07 +0000
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