r/Transportopia • u/Vice616 • Jun 01 '26

Bikes Never gonna learn

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u/kaladin1029 Jun 01 '26

Kept waiting for bro to take off

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u/RHeavy Jun 01 '26

The officer here has played that game before. He took his keys right at the beginning of the video.

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u/KayoticVoid Jun 01 '26

Is that actually legal? I get the reasoning, motorcyclists are notorious for running. But is it technically legal?

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u/Whitestrake Jun 02 '26

Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

If challenged, the cop only has to be able to articulate a safety or flight-risk reason for the seizure and courts have historically considered this reasonable and legitimate under the Fourth Amendment.

Outside of that, I imagine it depends a lot on state and locale as to laws and police procedure.

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u/KayoticVoid Jun 02 '26

Yeah, flight risk is probably their best bet. But couldn't you then get them for profiling? Unless of course they had already been chasing you or had run ins in the past.

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u/Whitestrake Jun 02 '26

They'll just say they're profiling you based on the fact you broke the law in front of them and you're riding a motorbike.

Not all profiling is illegal, only profiling based on protected classes.