I shit you not!
He told the cops his name, his address and why he was there. They demanded ID which he simply did not have on him. So they put him in cuffs and arrested him.
The "charge" was later dropped, so he sued the cops.
A lower court said "no way, immunity!" but that got overturned on appeal.
So now the State's highest court is going to rule on what should be obvious. The US Supremes covered this years ago, afaik. Can cops "compel" a person to show ID under penalty of arrest if they do not?
His lawyer makes an excellent point: you could get arrested if you go to the store but leave your ID at home because the cops stop you & demand ID? Nonsense.
Not to distract from your case study on cooperating, but:
"Hell no man I'm not going to give you no ID"
From the clip it seem he drove to the neighbor's house 'across the street' (which sounds more than like 100') so he probably had ID on him but was just upset they asked.
Yeah it's annoying to show the ID but victim culture transforms annoying to degrading and then you get this kind of incident.
edit: black guy in Alabama watering flowers gets harassed by 3 white cops and you guys think he's some kind of constitutional scholar. Good grief.
I shit you not!
He told the cops his name, his address and why he was there. They demanded ID which he simply did not have on him. So they put him in cuffs and arrested him.
The "charge" was later dropped, so he sued the cops.
A lower court said "no way, immunity!" but that got overturned on appeal.
So now the State's highest court is going to rule on what should be obvious. The US Supremes covered this years ago, afaik. Can cops "compel" a person to show ID under penalty of arrest if they do not?
His lawyer makes an excellent point: you could get arrested if you go to the store but leave your ID at home because the cops stop you & demand ID? Nonsense.
Not to distract from your case study on cooperating, but:
"Hell no man I'm not going to give you no ID"
From the clip it seem he drove to the neighbor's house 'across the street' (which sounds more than like 100') so he probably had ID on him but was just upset they asked.
Yeah it's annoying to show the ID but victim culture transforms annoying to degrading and then you get this kind of incident.
edit: black guy in Alabama watering flowers gets harassed by 3 white cops and you guys think he's some kind of constitutional scholar. Good grief.
I think this is less victim and more fuck you I know my rights.
He already told his name and address. If you're trying to make a point about not having to show ID probably shouldn't identify yourself first.
Are you retarded? If you identify yourself and they have no probable cause then that's the end of it.