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Someone rolls up to a checkpoint and when asked if the window in his car could go down and he said yes but refused to roll it down more than an inch,i would at the least think he was hiding something he didn't want them to see or smell which is probably what they were acting on.
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Then they should have said "We have probable cause to search your vehicle - please step out." They didn't do that.
Why didn't they do that? Because they didn't have any probable cause and such a search would have found their case thrown out of court followed by a civil suit. They would be breaking the law - and they knew it was all being recorded.
Note - they didn't ask to actually examine the documents provided by the guy in the car until a supervisor showed up. That alone should tell you that they didn't care if this guy was an American citizen or not - they just wanted to hassle him for his lack of servility.
I'm glad I don't live in the southwest!