Hicks are really gullible. Go figure. Apparently law enforcement is considering calling this a terroristic threat. Let’s see, the witness can’t identify what they were going to do, she wasn’t even sure if it was a real threat or a joke, and she was listening in on a conversation. Ummmm…no jury is going to bother convicting someone for that.
Repeat after me, Shoney’s isn’t a hotbed of terrorists on their way to blow up Miami. Hell, Shoney’s doesn’t even have hot food. The only thing anyone is really guilty of is having the bad taste of eating at Shoneys.
Even better is this:
According to police sources, all three men at first were uncooperative – denying consent to search the car.
”It was probably not the right time for them to be copping an attitude with police,” said one federal law enforcement source who was up all night monitoring the investigation. “But that’s exactly what happened.”
Let me add a little something to this discussion.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
It is called the 4th amendment. Forcing the police to do their job is not copping an attitude.