This video gives you all the legal background on why you should not answer questions from police.
Use your judgement. It may be alright to answer one or two basic questions at an initial stage of a police encounter just to establish that you are calm and polite and to avoid pissing off the cop. For example, "where are you going", or "where are you coming from". It's none of their business and you have no legal obligation to answer, but it may help just to keep the cop calm and not get agitated and abusive.
http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik
Use your judgement. It may be alright to answer one or two basic questions at an initial stage of a police encounter just to establish that you are calm and polite and to avoid pissing off the cop. For example, "where are you going", or "where are you coming from". It's none of their business and you have no legal obligation to answer, but it may help just to keep the cop calm and not get agitated and abusive.
http://youtu.be/i8z7NC5sgik
Lawyer's web site with this info
Bradly Jardis
19:35 - How to talk to the police.
20:00 - "Well you know, with all due respect, isn't it true that I have the right to not answer questions? I don't mean to disrespect you officer, but I just don't want to give you things to write down in your report to use against me to prosecute me. Wouldn't you tell your friends not to give information to the police?"
http://youtu.be/OyZuVuzrYBA
This video is optional. It proves that cops can legally lie and very often do.
You must assume that everything a cop says is a lie. They will try every trick in order to provoke you into doing something or saying something that can give them an excuse to arrest you.
Use your judgement. If a cop threatens to arrest you, it may be a valid threat.
http://youtu.be/08fZQWjDVKE (type in capital letters as capitals)
Very goood example of using a calm demeanor with police:
http://youtu.be/_iMr76atjUA
Another example of remaining calm but standing your ground:
By remaining calm he avoided having the agents become agitated, leading them to escalatie to the point of making an arrest.
http://youtu.be/cNmM0SiR4_0
Good example of standing your ground against the police.
"Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the sustpect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to the police under any circumstances." Justice Robert Jackson, United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954), chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
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