DO exercise your right to remain silent.DO ask am I free to leave?’ If they say yes, calmly leave.In California, you cannot be arrested for refusing to provide your I.D. During a stop, the police can ask about your name, address, and age.Unless police have a reasonable suspicion, based on specific and clearly describable facts along with reasonable inferences, for suspecting that you committed, are committing, or are about to commit a crime, you are generally free to leave.You don’t have to look suspicious or be a potential witness to a crime. DO know that the police may stop and question you for any reason at all.The Dos and Don’ts of Police Pedestrian Stops

If you believe your rights were violated, you can file a complaint against the law enforcement officer once you are no longer in a potentially harmful situation. If a law enforcement officer starts acting in an aggressive way toward you, it might not be wise or safe to assert your rights in that moment.

But it’s important to remember that even though you have legal rights, you must use good judgment in deciding when to exercise them. Here is information to let you know what your constitutional rights are during police interactions. These encounters aren’t just stressful as history and recent events have shown, they can be deadly. Black and Brown people get stopped more because of their skin color even though racial profiling is illegal.īlack and Brown people are also more likely to be detained, handcuffed, searched, and have police point guns at them. Why is it necessary? Because they often have a very different experience with the police than white people do. This is a special Know Your Rights Guide for Black and Brown people. nfolding through the dual narratives of Marion and Patrick, both writing about the man at the centre of their lives, this beautifully-told, painful, tragic story is revealed.It is a tale of wasted years, misguided love and thwarted hope, of how at a time when the country was on the verge of change so much was still impossible.Know Your Rights: Police Interactions for Black and Brown People ut Tom has another life, another equally overpowering claim on his affections.Patrick, a curator at the Brighton Museum, is also besotted with his policeman, and opens Tom s eyes to a world previously unknown to him.But in an age when those of minority status were condemned by society and the law, it is safer for this policeman to marry his teacher.The two lovers? must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.

From the moment Marion first lays eyes on Tom her best friend s big brother, broad, blond, blue-eyed she is smitten.And when he comes home from National Service to be a policeman, Marion, a newly qualified teacher, is determined to win him.Unable to acknowledge the signs that something is amiss, she plunges into marriage, sure that her love is enough for both of them.

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