[jadell]

Do you know what asserting your rights looks like to a cop having a bad day, especially if they're already anxious and you're a black man in a bad neighborhood? It looks an awful lot like "resisting", and it's going to be really hard to dispute that when they've shot you dead, claimed self-defense, and have their partners to back them up.

The problem here isn't someone failing to assert their rights; it's cops considering asserting your rights to be "contempt of cop" which can carry an immediate death sentence if you're the "wrong" type of person talking to the "wrong" type of cop.