At one point, Miller told the assembled local police officers, “I see the guns and badges in this room. You are unleashed. The handcuffs you’re carrying, they’re not on you anymore, they’re on the criminals. And whatever you need to get it done, we’re gonna get it done.”
The 40-year-old stated that they had deployed over 13 government agencies, including the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, and the Department of Defense, which Hegseth has since rebranded as the “Department of War.”
“The gangbangers that you deal with, they think that they’re ruthless, they have no idea how ruthless we are,” Miller added.
“They think they’re tough, they have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are, and we have the entire weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have? They have nothing behind them. So we are gonna win, they’re gonna lose.”
At the Wednesday appearance, Hegseth thanked the assembled Memphis law officers for working in dangerous places “where politicians spend a lot of time second guessing… the impossible decisions that you have to make that they will never understand.”
Hegseth, Bondi and Miller spent around an hour in the Shelby County Office of Preparedness and left via the rear entrance, according to WREG TV.
Bondi said on X that 53 arrests had been made and 20 illegal firearms seized in the first two days of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
I was accused of being drunk or high and did one of those tests and they said it was a failure even though I didn’t show any impairment of motor skills. Arrested me, Drew my blood in the hospital, towed my car, then released me the next morning without charge, only to file charges 14 months later for supposedly having one nanogram per milliliter of THC despite the fact that I had not smoked at all anytime in the range. Had to pay 3K for a lawyer that got it dropped. Plus several hundred to get my car out of impound.
Yeah. Somewhere on YouTube there are plenty of lawyer videos about how to deal with those stops, but basically TL;DR: Refuse the field sobriety tests, be calm and polite, don’t answer questions or engage in discussion (aside from providing your name and IDing yourself), cooperate with any kind of medical / chemical test they want you to do.
My least favorite is shining the light directly into my eye at night. I refuse that one straight up. I find it very uncomfortable to have bright lights in my eyes and I do not trust those dipshits and anybody that tells them and is not bad for your vision, and they’re doing it in bad faith anyway. Plus I was completely sober. They do that to check the dilation of the pupils apparently. Most illegal drugs do like big pupils but opiates do small.
I don’t think most of that is true. Mostly the field sobriety eye test is checking whether your eyes will twitch when they go to the edge of the field of view. They have to shine enough light near your face to be able to see your eyes obviously but if they’re shining it right in your eyes they are definitely doing it wrong.
(Fun fact, when I was younger I passed one of those when I should not have. The cop was holding a pen near the edge of my field of view and I could literally see the pen shaking because of my eyes twitching, and for some reason he passed me on the test. I was not especially drunk, so maybe I was below the threshold, but I had been drinking. Who knows. Anyway, don’t drive drunk kids. I just saw a bodycam video yesterday of a woman who had gotten in the car just to move it, while she was pretty drunk, and she managed to run over her husband who was near the car and kill him. She was shattered, looked like just a sweet woman who was out having fun and now her life was irrevocably destroyed, I did not finish watching the video.)
I won’t say that there are not cops out there that will shine light in your eyes to check your pupil size or something (and definitely small pupils are a sign of drug use… I think mostly it is stimulants shrinking your pupils as almost all of what they’re looking for; psychedelics will make your pupils big but that’s not what most people they’re looking to bust for DUI drugs have taken I think). The standard test is looking for twitching though.
You are talking about a different test assuming it is the same.
No, I am talking about the standardized HGN test. I specifically said I wasn’t sure that there were not also cops out there doing something different like you described. The one I was talking about is the present-day standardized field sobriety test with the eyes, though (HGN test).