# Kissing your husband while black? Not if the LAPD can help it.

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**Created:** [September 14, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-your-husband-while-black-not-if-the-lapd-can-help-it/698492 "2014-09-14T19:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kissing-your-husband-while-black-not-if-the-lapd-can-help-it/698492/133 "2014-09-15T04:37:24Z")

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The alleged crime in this case was a misdemeanor. Terry stops for the investigation of completed misdemeanors are not permissible, unless the totality of the circumstances suggests an ongoing or escalating threat to public safety.

Here there was no ongoing misdemeanor, and no reasonable suspicion of an ongoing or escalating threat to public safety.

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