alt Hacker News"You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride..." [0]
Copspeak for technically you're correct, but we're still going to fuck with you.
[0] A cop actually said this to me (I asked him whether he was violating a 3rd-party's Fourth Amendment by questioning); handcuffed, he tucked a Miranda Card into my buttondown's shirtpocket, tapping condescendingly about my questioning his authority. And what a ride it was.
> “If the law is against you, talk about the evidence,” said a battered barrister “If the evidence is against you, talk about the law, and, since you ask me, if the law and the evidence are both against you, then pound on the table and yell like hell”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/