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Your rights as a protester: What to know and what to do if you’re detained
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Resist: It's Time
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
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Not exactly true. If you want to exercise your Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent, you must explicitly and clearly invoke them. "I am exercising my Fifth Amendment rights" works. "I want to speak to a lawyer" also works. Simply remaining silent can be interpreted by police as "being uncooperative" or even "being threatening", and can bring associated consequences.
While this is true, you don't get to choose where or more importantly when that phone call happens. You also won't have your phone, and police are not obligated to let you get phone numbers from it.
Unless you have reason to believe that your life is in danger because of the police. If you have reason to believe that you will be rendered to a foreign prison, for example, fight for your fucking life.
Finally, yes, you have these rights. They can and will be trampled upon. If you desire recourse, you'll need to find and pay a lawyer, and spend lots of time navigating the justice system. The odds that you will succeed in that endeavor are vanishingly small. If you do eventually manage to get a judgment in your favor, good luck collecting on it.