Originally Posted by Glory Days
no, police are bound by the constitution, citizens are not. and as pointed out earlier, it depends on what state you film those people in.
I Wear Pants;384504 wrote:What?
The Bill of Rights protects citizens from the government(police at all levels). you are not protected for example, from non government agents.
For example, assume that a shopping mall security guard acting on a pure hunch searches a teenager's backpack. Inside the backpack the guard finds a baggie containing an illegal drug. The guard can detain the teenager, call the police, and turn the drug over to a police officer. The drug is admissible in evidence, because the search was conducted by a private security guard, not a police officer.
The police can use the findings of a citizen's search, even though it was illegal. the same does not apply to police, the evidence would be thrown out in a illegal search done by police.