Personally I would assume the person who has me reaching into their pocket knowingly that I will injure myself quite substantially is doing so deliberately aka trying to harm me. So if you had those blades in your pocket without telling the officer that should count as a booby trap/assault on the officer.
Comment on pocket knife
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 days agoSurely this cannot count as a booby trap
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The officer should have asked. That’s when you could tell him you don’t consent to a search. It’s a bad idea to do this for a lot of reasons but that’s not one of them.
If someone is searching through your pockets without your approval and against your wishes, they better hope they are right to do so and are taking all of the necessary precautions.
You’re not under any obligation to make the private contents of your pockets safe for other people to rifle through.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That grammar was rough, and so was your argument
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
has me reaching into their pocket knowingly
In this case you’d be performing an illegal search and should not have your hands in their pockets. How could they know you were going to illegally search them? If they’re a law abiding citizen with razors in their pockets and you illegally search them, those cuts are on you.
Now, as for how this would play out in front of obviously corrupt police institutions — yeah you’d likely have evidence planted on you for pulling a stunt like this.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
You’d have to be able to argue in court that you had some other reason for having loose razors in your pockets.
You would probably lose. I mean trust me I don’t like cops, but you totally lose.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 days ago
Yeah, he’d have to keep them in his bra for that.