Q: While being evicted from your home can you ask for privacy to the police and go to the room to change clothes?
Does the police leave you alone so you can change clothes and use the bathroom before leaving the house? This tenant was allowed to go change clothes while being evicted, locked the room and took time to make a note, etc. Tenant ended up taking his life.
A: Answer to first question: of course, the tenant can ask the police whatever he wishes. Answer to second question: the police have the discretion to give the tenant permission to change clothes and go to the bathroom, and, in this situation, will likely give that courtesy, as the tenant has committed no crime. Why do you ask? Are you wondering if the tenant's family can make a wrongful death claim due to the police actions? If that is your concern, the answer generally not, with the sole possible exception being the police being on notice that the tenant would likely commit suicide if he went alone to the bathroom in their presence.
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