WASHINGTON, Feb. 19— The Supreme Court ruled today that police officers may order passengers out of the cars they stop for routine traffic violations, even in the absence of any reason to suspect that the passenger has committed a crime or presents a threat to the officer’s safety.
The 7-to-2 decision, adopting a position long advocated by police organizations, was an extension of a 1977 Supreme Court decision permitting police officers to order the driver out of the car in a routine traffic stop.

”On the public interest side of the balance, the same weighty interest in officer safety is present regardless of whether the occupant of the stopped car is a driver or passenger,” Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said in the majority opinion today.

The two dissenting Justices, John Paul Stevens and Anthony M. Kennedy, objected that the decision marked a substantial contraction of the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures.
”The Court takes the unprecedented step of authorizing seizures that are unsupported by any individualized suspicion whatsoever,” Justice Stevens said. Justice Kennedy said the result would be to place ”tens of millions of passengers at risk of arbitrary control by the police.”

The decision overturned a 1995 ruling by a state appeals court in Maryland. State courts around the country had been split on the question. Thirty-eight states joined Maryland in asking the Justices to overturn the Maryland ruling, and the Clinton Administration showed its support by having Attorney General Janet Reno, in her first Supreme Court appearance, argue on behalf of Maryland when the case was heard two months ago.

The Maryland court, ruling that the police need ”some individualized or particularized suspicion” before ordering a passenger out of a car, refused to permit the prosecution to introduce the crack cocaine that had fallen to the ground when a passenger, Jerry Lee Wilson, obeyed a state trooper’s order to get out of a car that was stopped for speeding on Interstate 95 near Baltimore.

In his opinion today, Maryland v. Wilson, No. 95-1268, Chief Justice Rehnquist said that ”in one sense” a passenger has a stronger case than a driver for not being ordered out of the car: it is the driver, and not the passenger, who has committed a traffic offense.
But there is little difference ”as a practical matter,” the Chief Justice said, because all occupants of the car have already been stopped ”by virtue of the stop of the vehicle.” If there is evidence inside the vehicle of a more serious crime, he said, ”the motivation of a passenger to employ violence to prevent apprehension of such a crime is every bit as great as that of the driver.”

Chief Justice Rehnquist cited Federal statistics showing that in 1994, 5,762 police officers were assaulted and 11 were killed during traffic pursuits and stops.

Justice Stevens, in dissent, objected that these statistics gave no indication of how many of the incidents involved passengers; whether the passengers were inside or outside of the cars; or whether the violence would have been prevented had the passengers been ordered out.
In response, Chief Justice Rehnquist said, ”It is, indeed, regrettable that the empirical data on a subject such as this are sparse, but we need not ignore the data which do exist simply because further refinement would be even more helpful.”

When the case was argued in December, the Maryland Attorney General, J. Joseph Curran, appeared to startle most of the Justices by making the sweeping argument that not only could police officers order passengers out of the car, but they could also prevent passengers not suspected of any crime from leaving the scene — to hail a taxi, for example. Chief Justice Rehnquist said today that this issue ”is not presented by this case, and we express no opinion upon it.”

Wake up people. If you go head to head with the opposition when they have the huge advantage, even if you are right, you may lose the encounter. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT IS NOT HOWTO BATTLE. Ask any military trained person. WAKE UP!

If the woman is a queen, know that you are a King, the head, the leader. You do not have to ever accept the negative, vile, profane, obscene, out of control or abusive mouth of a black woman. None of us of any race are perfect but deliberate put downs of the black man by the black woman have
to stop and stop NOW.

They are told by their moms not to settle so black men don’t need to settle either. Teach your sons that black men. If a woman talks down, profane or obscene to you, she disrespects you and she does not care about you like she says she does. Actions do speak louder than words but sometimes the actions are the words.

We won’t take it from the white man or the cop apparently. So why should we take it from the black woman? Have a spine men. Have some balls men. Be a man and draw the line in the sand. Don’t be a victim of the slave master’s vessel. A good black woman (and there are many) knows this and agrees.

PEACE COMES FROM DIVINE ORDER, NOT FROM BEING A COWARD

African Americans are falling into a trap that many factions of the government hope our race will fall into. They want us to ignore the facts and riot. That is how they will advance martial law and justify it. They want us to fight with bottle and bricks while they have guns, tanks and HumVs from the military.

The Social Security Admin only a few years ago bought half a million rounds of ammunition. Our people have no idea as a whole about the Eugenics extermination process that has begun. White officers killing black men is just the tip of the iceberg. We cannot afford to play into their hands while we walk in denial of what we did to fall into the trap.

Sandra Bland did not know her rights, that’s evident. And I have done countless free session to teach our people their rights but they would rather watch the game or Trikki Minage or Kim Kartrashian. Our people have been dumbed down and I know exactly how it is being done. Its programming in the music, in the video games like Grand Theft Auto, its in the images we see and the people our youth emulate. It’s in the street weed laced with hundreds of ingredients in addition to marijuana.

Too many people read this article written by Levar and agreed. They lost focus on the real issues and that is what the powers that be expected. TYoo many people wanted to just be angry but not think through what is really happening, the bigger picture or that this happening repeatedly is all a set up.

The hardest thing I do in my field of expertise is work with deprogramming our people from slavery mindsets, mindsets that keep division alive and keep us walking in denial of personal responsibility. Our people, as a whole, have walked in the darkness of denial for so long that they fight their own kind to stay in that darkness brought in by the oppressors. I can show you a ton of research done by BLACK WOMEN about the black woman’s mouth but our race still won’t face facts and try to fix them. I can show you hundreds of my cases and dozens of case studies and books, many done by BLACK WOMEN, but a lot of our people will ignore them. I can show you dozens of BLACK FEMALE police officers who know the law and who will attest to the fact that Sandra Bland broke the law and that her mouth and attitude made things go south.

The fact is that I believe I battling, standing against injustice and winning, but not by undertaking battles that obviously won’t be won like with a State Trooper in his state and on the side of the road. We have so many other options and that is what I am trying to tell all of you. Options that handle the problem but still minimize risks to ourselves.

If our people do not learn how to battle strategically, we will lose and lose big – like it or not. I am not the problem and I bow to NO white person. But I have wisdom in how to fight. The problem in the black community is DENIAL.

Peace will never come from war, only oppression and dominance will. Peace comes from planting the seed of peace in and insane and racist world. Martin Luther King overstood that and the boomerang affect. The Caucasian race as a whole does not have a clue but by now, I had hoped our African American brothers and sisters would. Reactions based on anger will only make us lose while strategic moves based on wisdom and intellect will help us win. To be such a great people, we have forgotten that and who we are.

According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:

TRANSPORTATION CODE TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS.

(a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.

AND THEN INSULT AND ARGUE WITH THIS:

When Sandra started using profane and obscene language, according to Texas law, she broke the law again and could be arrested for disorderly conduct under the Texas Penal Code. Or she could be charged with Simple Assault under Texas penal code. That is the law in Texas, like it or not.

TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.

(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;

AND THEN FINALLY ARGUE WWITH THIS

In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation if the officer has probable cause. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.

TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST,SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION

(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.

(b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search.

See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf