Also, AFAIK, they’re allowed to do a basic search to ensure that someone doesn’t have a weapon on them or nearby. It wouldn’t make sense to require a warrant for that. Imagine a cop had to apply for a search warrant to ensure that the person they were arresting didn’t have a knife or gun in their pocket.
In that case, it might make sense to search his backpack if it was right next to him. OTOH, if they took his backpack away from him, then they were no longer in danger from anything in the backpack so they had no justification to search it.
You just know that the police are going to lie about these things. They’ll claim he was never separated from his backpack so they were justified in searching it for something dangerous. Or they’ll claim that they had reason to believe there was a bomb so even though he didn’t have it on him, they still had a reason to search it because it still posed an immediate danger.
The only way anybody can get a fair trial is to have an expensive team of lawyers who can chase down all these various lies, finding out what was said on body cams, when the body cams were mysteriously turned off, what the exact timeline of everything was, etc.
Also, AFAIK, they’re allowed to do a basic search to ensure that someone doesn’t have a weapon on them or nearby. It wouldn’t make sense to require a warrant for that. Imagine a cop had to apply for a search warrant to ensure that the person they were arresting didn’t have a knife or gun in their pocket.
In that case, it might make sense to search his backpack if it was right next to him. OTOH, if they took his backpack away from him, then they were no longer in danger from anything in the backpack so they had no justification to search it.
You just know that the police are going to lie about these things. They’ll claim he was never separated from his backpack so they were justified in searching it for something dangerous. Or they’ll claim that they had reason to believe there was a bomb so even though he didn’t have it on him, they still had a reason to search it because it still posed an immediate danger.
The only way anybody can get a fair trial is to have an expensive team of lawyers who can chase down all these various lies, finding out what was said on body cams, when the body cams were mysteriously turned off, what the exact timeline of everything was, etc.