Know your rights - R' Chaim Bleier

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[music] >> I was once driving along the highway and I look in my rear mirror and I see a police car following me. After a couple of minutes, he puts on his sirens and lights and flashes me to pull over. I say, "Oy, Reb what does the cop want from me now?" I pull over and slowly the officer walks over to me and I open my window and he says, "Sir, why were you talking on the phone?" So I started trying to say, "I wasn't." So he says, "Hold on a minute." He says that says, "Hold on a minute." He says that before anything I have to tell you and he mumbles a few words. I say, "Sorry, sir, but I didn't hear a [music] word you said." So he said, "Okay, Mr. Brit, I'll say it slowly for you." And then he started saying, "I have to read you the Miranda rights." Which goes like this. Takes out a slip of paper and he reads, "You have the right to remain silent. Number two, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law." And then he goes and says another three amendments. And then I think to myself, "I need an officer to tell me

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1. 0:01[music] >> I was once driving along the highway and I look in my rear mirror…
2. 0:32says, "Hold on a minute." He says that before anything I have to tell you and…
3. 1:02myself, "I need an officer to tell me that I have the right to remain silent.…
4. 1:32for for what we say. It reminds me of what my rebbe, the guy with of…
5. 2:03police car, it reminds us of Shofet and Shoter, put that policeman, put that officer in…
6. 2:33is correct. And if it's not correct, remain [music] silent. Because our obligation is to be…

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