Daily I see people driving their vehicles with all manner of stuff hanging from their rear view mirror. Currently it is several face masks. I've seen people driving with a display of baseball hats arrayed on the rear deck of their car. Wedding garters on the rear view, stuffed animals and starched crocheted doilies on the deck. Sleeping dogs, big ones! Gun racks! I even saw this one car driving with a couple of CD's hanging off the rear view that provided lots of really distracting iridescent light flashes as they spun around.
So forgive me if I think it is total BS to pull over some kid who has something hanging off his rear view. We all know why he was pulled over. Look at all this stuff they sell on Amazon for the express reason to hang on your rear view mirror.
Amazon.ca : Car Mirror Hanging Accessories
If it's so illegal then shut them down. Don't shoot and kill some poor kid excited to be driving his new car. I am sick and tired of people who think cops have carte blanche to pull people over
for frivolous things then whine that the person didn't 'comply'. I am so over it. And before someone thinks I don't respect the police, I do but working with them for nearly thirty years I found there are some bad apples out there who have pulled attractive women over on some phony charge to get their home addresses. Now that would be called stalking. Victimizing citizens is wrong.