The civil rights movement brought about rebellions and challenges:
The street-level challenge to stop-and-search policing made its way to the US Supreme Court in June 1968. In Terry v. Ohio, the Court upheld the principles underlying stop-and-search policing, and determined that the threshold for a “stop-and-frisk” was an officer’s reasonable and articulable suspicion— not probable cause— that a person was involved in crime and was armed.
Warren wrote the majority opinion. Stop-and-frisk became official federal policy and the strategic cornerstone of the “war on crime” that followed.
. . . Which matches what I said. Terry v. Ohio created the reasonable suspicion standard to frisk for weapons. Before that, the standard was probable cause. The problem is that they didn’t even have grounds for any reasonable suspicion that Oswald was involved in a crime and was armed. He didn’t match the description and Brewer didn’t see a weapon.
The point is that the scuffle and gun were the reasonable cause for the arrest.
Again, he was arrested for
murder. In order to do that, they needed probable cause when they made the arrest that he murdered somebody. They had none. The arrest report says nothing about an officer being punched or a trigger being pulled in the theater, or of resisting arrest — which points to those claims being invented after the fact in order to rationalize the police misconduct.
