chabouk wrote:karder wrote:He told us that when he saw our truck, an old Ford Bronco with tinted windows and Texas plates, he thought we might be some illegals so he pulled us over.
Wow.
I can't believe he would admit that. You're right, the stop was unconstitutional unless he had some other valid reason. He made a pretty risky assumption that you would be okay with it. If you'd been running a digital voice recorder, that trooper could get in a world of trouble over that.
I find it gut busting funny that this trooper would assume a pick up truck with tinted windows would have to be a truck load of illegal Mexicans.
I bet 90% of the pickup trucks around the area I live in have tinted windows... This is just a hoot. I also am amazed that he confessed to profiling you like that. I have heard of profiling on some interstates between areas the law knows to have high drug trafficking. I believe some states even use dope dogs on these stops.