What Are Pretextual Traffic Stops? Should they be allowed

We’ll never know what Philando Castile was feeling when the police lights first flashed across his rearview mirror in a suburb city of Minneapolis, Minnesota on a summer evening in 2016. But we can be reasonably certain that he wasn’t feeling surprised. The traffic stop commonly known as a pretextual traffic stop for a broken taillight that precipitated his tragic death, and captured the nation’s attention, was nothing out of the ordinary for Castile. It was in fact the 46th time he had been pulled over. And while this figure may seem shocking to some, there is sadly nothing aberrational about it. Join the Cohost Chiefs on Thursday at 6PM CST. Streaming live on Facebook Live. As they discuss do American traffic laws give police way too much power.