It should be the responsibility of citizens to learn and understand their due process rights not for law enforcement to have to tell every criminal how not to incriminate themselves.

If someone can’t go on google and read the 5th-8th amendments before going out and doing some dumb and illegal shit then they deserve to be clueless thinking they have to answer questions during interrogation and be dead in the water when their trial comes.

Its easy to search “Do Americans have the right to a lawyer” on google.

TLDR: Knowing and understanding your rights should be the responsibility of citizens not cops.

  • andrewta@lemmy.world
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    The problem is that the people aren’t in control anymore. Laws have been twisted to basically allow big business to own the government. The conservatives which is not the majority have screed things up to the point that I’m not sure how we fix this anymore. 1969 ? Maybe. Today? No idea how we fix it

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      The problem is that the people aren’t in control anymore.

      They were never in control in US. US regime from its inception was the government by the rich for the rich. Empire needed a buy in from a base so they treated white settlers as that base and gave them rights by mistake. Having what is now considered some basic human rights was novel back then but it is kinda expected now. And every regime is rolling them back, not just tUS.

      No idea how we fix it

      Starts with direct action and ends with solidarity