Let us have the laptops or we detain you and search everything.
The Guardian. OK. You can have them.
Is exactly the same as your example of reasonable policing for a vehicle search. > Here in the US, at least, you can also say "no". At this point, the officer can either let you go, or if he has sufficient cause to carry out a search against your wishes, he can detain you and carry out the search.
Apparently it is not exactly what happened, because the government was threatening to shut them down. Your scenario does not include anything like that.
Let us have the laptops or we detain you and search everything.
The Guardian. OK. You can have them.
Is exactly the same as your example of reasonable policing for a vehicle search. > Here in the US, at least, you can also say "no". At this point, the officer can either let you go, or if he has sufficient cause to carry out a search against your wishes, he can detain you and carry out the search.