Civil Rights violations..

The stop in Camden, NJ is an example of civil rights violations..

While I don't see a problem with the eventual shooting of the driver, there are a couple problems before that..

The arrest of the passenger does not give the officer carte blanche to search the entire car, only the passengers immediate area, just like arresting the occupant of a house doesn't give the right to search the whole house, usually just the room or rooms the arrested were actually seen in immediately before the arrest. A search of the passenger compartment might have been legal. And depending on who's seat the coke was found under would mean a lot..

The officer "arrested" the driver for refusing to allow the search, first, he refused verbally, which does not give the officr ANY cause, up to that point nothing physical had occured. The supreme court has ruled that exercise of a constitutionally protected right cannot be twisted into probable cause. The arrest was a civil rights violaion.

The fact that there was coke in the car doesn't change these elements. The cops broke the law and this show acted like there was NOTHING wrong..

Unfortunately I've seen a number of cases on this show that any marginally intelligent lawyer could get them off on, mainly because the cops broke the law.