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Know Your Rights

 

If you are stopped by police or immigration:

  • Ask Officers "Am i being detained?"

  • If you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.

  • If the answer is yes, ask "what reasonable suspicion do you have that i am committing a crime?"

  • You have the right to a lawyer if you are arrested. Ask for one immediately.

  • You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.

  • Regardless of your immigration or citizen status, you have constitutional rights.

 

If you need legal assistance go here.

For more info about your rights in NYC see here.