Pubic Intoxication is Pure Opinion? #PublicIntoxication #LawyerReacts

Public intoxication is a relatively subjective arrest, which makes it easier to get charged with. If a police officer suspects you're drunk because they smell alcohol on your breath, if you seem unsteady, and if you seem like you could hurt someone else, they could legally make the arrest. If you're drinking in a public environment, remember that you have the right to not speak to the police and invoke your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

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[ChristisFaithful]

Tyrants gonna tyrant. It's disgusting how much leeway they have under the guise of subjectivity. That's gotta go along w qualified immunity.

[ajreukgjdi]

I've never swallowed a drop of alcohol in my life. You can imagine my surprise when a cop told me my breath smelled like alcohol and tried to arrest me for public intoxication... So I guess can confirm about the "don't like your attitude" part

[deanhenthorn]

I walk around in public with a A&W Rootbeer bottle wrapped inside a brown paper bag. Lawsuits pay my income and makes my lawyer happy

[coffeewithalexander]

Police are taught to lie. Why would a liar's stated subjective opinion ever have more weight than literally everyone else? It's asinine.

[nicholashenderson]

Prove the danger part. That's got to be hard to do.

[odysseuslost]

"No officer, I was drunk in a bar. They threw me into public" - Ron "Tater Salad" White

[fredpierre]

It's called CORRUPTION UNDER THE COLOR OF LAW!

[keysautorepair]

Exactly government has a way around every single right you think you have and they have qualified immunity and that’s just facts.

[Nayr]

Doesn't matter if they can't prove it. They still f you over by forcing you to spend thousands in court. "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride"

[psnopod]

Officers should receive fines anytime they pull there weapon on unarmed non dangerous people im honestly tired of being held at gunpoint because im younger then half the Force and they dont wanna hire competent people they wpuld rather have the abuser from the next state over

[roberthutchison]

I'm told that a diabetic with slightly out of control blood sugar can smell like an alcoholic so the officers are doing a great injustice when they simply arrest people because they think they've been drinking and in fact if you check the recent news then you might have to check feeds that are not in the normal TV airwaves they've caused the death of a number of diabetics because they refused to treat them for their diabetes and rather assumed that they were drunk.

[alexanderboyer]

What if you aren’t a threat to others…? Walking is better than driving.

[Samthemule]

I can be buzzed from alcohol where it's obvious I've been drinking. I'm not a danger to nobody or myself. I may have to try concentrating more on walking as I am already clumsy when completely sober. But regardless, if I am buzzed, I am still coherent. I am still able to walk. I can still speak clearly, and I still have full control of myself.

[selfdo]

Like "resisting" or "obstruction", can and often is abused by law enforcement, that, even if a conviction isn't obtained, the "process" becomes the PUNISHMENT.

[Rusterman-isex]

I got busted for public intoxication but back then Myself and five friends were only 14 and 15 yo. We were caught drinking in a public park at 3 o'clock in the morning, Friday night/Saturday morning. All they did was put us into one big sobering cell. The cops had to clear out the other people in there to other cells. Because since we were all minors then, so they put all of us into one tank. They called all of our parents to come and pick each of us up. That was back in 1986 I was 14 yo then.

[RJ-srdv]

Another good example why you never talk to the police. No idle chitchat no extraneous comments, nothing have a nice day Officer bye

[keillorchristoph]

I am absolutely fine if someone wants to be drunk in public, as long as they are not being a dumbass, dumbassery deserves to get arrested, perhaps caned. But just being intoxicated no as long as it ain't driving or being a dumbass. Like most cops can be sober.

[wlaukaitis]

If I'm a danger to myself, that's my problem

[shawncarroll]

Quick question reference this short and also the DUI short - if you are drunk, as a passenger, in a vehicle are you considered in public? I've seen various arguments on this, and if I remember correctly in one state as soon as they arrested the driver and announce they were going to tow the vehicle, the passengers at that point became considered "in public" because they are no longer in a vehicle. Which implies that being the passenger in the vehicle would have protected you from public intoxication until you got thrown out of the vehicle back into the public space, or were the people making these claims simply clueless?

[BohemothWatts-vzlc]

Alkeyhall? Well I'll drink to that!