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Allegedly, Mark Robinson was arrested for turning without using his turn signal. But read the story, and it's pretty clear the real reason he ended up behind bars was that he didn't talk to the police officer with the kind of total deference that cops have come to expect demand.
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Based on the story it sounds like the cop used the lack of a turn signal as a B.S. pretext to conduct a random drug search and got pissed when the guy didn't go along with the program.
Posted by: Jim | Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 03:49 PM