The 4th Amendment applies here. Heck, even the Supreme Court verified that

VAPAadmin — March 23, 2010 — This video shows a fourth amendment violation, harassment, and intimidation by the Border Patrol in Uvalde, Texas. The driver is a military field grade officer, decorated for heroism, with more than two years of combat deployment time. He is driving from one American city to another and has crossed no borders.

In the video the BP detains him quickly and without cause later claiming he refused to answer questions concerning his citizenship. The video shows this is clearly not the case. This charge is repeated by the supervisor who then contacts his military superiors in an (unfortunately successful) attempt to leverage his military service against him.

He was detained for more than thirty minutes without cause. He was eventually told by the officers that they appreciated his cooperation and was released. The full footage was captured on five different cameras. The footage here is limited in length by upload requirements. Legal action is pending concerning this incident and several previous at the same checkpoint.

Fortunately the driver was not assaulted for his oath-required support and defense of the U.S. Constitution. That was not the case for Baptist pastor Steven Anderson who required eleven stitches and new windows for exercising his rights at a Border Patrol station. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3F6g...

As the driver in this video attests, despite having conducted hundreds of operational missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, his routine travels through this checkpoint in Uvalde Texas have given him the most concern for his personal safety.

If you are concerned about the erosion and ignoring of the very essence of freedom contained in the fourth amendment, please send this video to your Congressman with a request for an immediate investigation into this incident. To learn how you can protect yourself against such blatant abuses of law enforcement power through surveillance technology, please visit VeteransAgainstPoliceAbuse.Org.

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[lu5tic]

you recorded a youtube video with your camera... wow...

[Pafoofnik1]

@marcus502414: You have to be a member of the military to travel in the U.S?

[marcus502414]

he brought all that on his self he should of just got out and shouwed them his was in the millitary and they would of let him go

[Pafoofnik1]

@GhostFishSlayer: "you only have to show your DL and registration,"

In the 30 years of going through these things, II have never shown a single piece of paper to anyone at these checkpoints.

The rest of your comment is spot-on.

[GhostFishSlayer]

@CubanStrike I live in Northern San Diego County, we have two similar check points. If they were really protecting us, they would patrol the border. By having a check point 40 miles from the border, BP isn't protecting our borders; they're harassing citizens. The guy did cooperate with the officers; you only have to show your DL and registration, and he did. You are not obligated to answer any of the officers questions; yet the guy did answer the officer's questions.

[Pafoofnik1]

@CubanStrike: The 4th Amendment applies here. Heck, even the Supreme Court verified that when they made major decisions about these checkpoints:

CITE: "We understand, of course, that neither longstanding congressional authorization nor widely prevailing practice justifies a constitutional violation."

SOURCE: 428 U. S. 543 (1976)

[Pafoofnik1]

@CubanStrike: No requirement to show identification here. I'm not sure why the agent sent the driver to secondary before he even asked about ID.

[CubanStrike]

All he had to do was show his identification to the agents. clearly he has been through that check point before. why else all the cameras. DUMB ASS!

[CubanStrike]

The 4th amendment protects us as citizens against illegal searches and seizures. However, there are times and places where the 4th amendment does not apply, and the border and any where near it is one of those places. These guys are out there to protect us from foreign trafficers and smugglers. This guy clearly has been through the check points before and obviously has a problem with authority and being told what to do. It blows my mind as to how he has made it this far in the military.

[Pafoofnik1]

@kb5zcr said "All he had to do was cooperate with the officers and he would have been on his way."

I am living proof that this is not true. The last time I went through a temporary checkpoint, I cooperated with the agents. I was directed to secondary, threatened with having the sheriff come down and arrest me, held without probable cause, then finally released with an empty threat that they would call my employer.