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HN commenters cite it as an example of police cueing drug dogs to justify searches.
A driver films a police DUI checkpoint on the 4th of July where a drug dog alerts on his car and he is searched without consent, though he broke no laws. He is released without charges after officers learn he was recording.
“Here's a step-by-step video of what they do for anyone interested that also shows them cue the dog” (HN, 2016)
There's a lot of speculation in articles and comments despite video evidence available for this sort of thing. Here's a step-by-step video of what they do for anyone interested that also shows them cue the dog: [this video]
Step-by-step view of a stop showing cueing of the dog
I don't like the idea of animals being able to determine whether a person gets their 4th amendment right or not. Also getting "caught" with $350,000 is irksome but theres probably been enough comments on here about civil forfeiture lately. EDIT: reason for my opinion: [this video]
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