I imagine he probably parked in the neighbor's driveway so it was easier to use the hose on the flowers along the house, the neighbors said wtf and called the cops, and that's why they were there. The SUV was poorly parked.
Makes more sense than cops just randomly stopping to check on some guy watering plants.
But I'd have to look up the details and don't care about it that much. Point is he could have just showed them an ID and been back to watering flowers in like 2 minutes.
The cop tells him they were called because of that car, but it never is established if it was his car or not.
If he did park it there, and admits that, I think they can ask for his drivers license? You don't have to be in the car, just have operated it. But again, even without the paper just giving your name & address should be enough. Fridays with Frank does that all the time.
If his ID was at home (since he walked there) then telling his name and address ought to be ample. But it looks like the cops never even went to look it up before slapping the cuffs on him. Even if he had it on him, they don't actually have the lawful right to demand it, name & address is enough unless that comes up fake.
Anyhow, that's what the US Supremes said & what the Alabama Supremes are looking at now.
So the cops were called because of somebody else's car in the neighbor's driveway and they arrived while he's there watering plants for a few minutes.
That would be quite a coincidence. Yeah, no I don't think so.
You can tell from his body language reaction that he's pissed off that they wanted to see his ID and didn't just believe his story (because he's black is obviously what he was thinking).
The call might have come in hours ago, days even, it's very low priority, eh? It would be more shocking if he'd just parked there and the cops responded within minutes, don't you agree? I'd be shocked if that were the case.
And yes he certainly thought he was being harassed "for the crime being Black" and looking at it all I'd actually agree.
I said in another comment that usually the people who "play the race card" or scream "I know my rights!" are complete idiots, eh? U-tube is full of videos of them! But this guy doesn't seem to be an idiot, he's just (like you say) pissed off at the cops.
I imagine he probably parked in the neighbor's driveway so it was easier to use the hose on the flowers along the house, the neighbors said wtf and called the cops, and that's why they were there. The SUV was poorly parked.
Makes more sense than cops just randomly stopping to check on some guy watering plants.
But I'd have to look up the details and don't care about it that much. Point is he could have just showed them an ID and been back to watering flowers in like 2 minutes.
The cop tells him they were called because of that car, but it never is established if it was his car or not. If he did park it there, and admits that, I think they can ask for his drivers license? You don't have to be in the car, just have operated it. But again, even without the paper just giving your name & address should be enough. Fridays with Frank does that all the time.
If his ID was at home (since he walked there) then telling his name and address ought to be ample. But it looks like the cops never even went to look it up before slapping the cuffs on him. Even if he had it on him, they don't actually have the lawful right to demand it, name & address is enough unless that comes up fake.
Anyhow, that's what the US Supremes said & what the Alabama Supremes are looking at now.
So the cops were called because of somebody else's car in the neighbor's driveway and they arrived while he's there watering plants for a few minutes.
That would be quite a coincidence. Yeah, no I don't think so.
You can tell from his body language reaction that he's pissed off that they wanted to see his ID and didn't just believe his story (because he's black is obviously what he was thinking).
The call might have come in hours ago, days even, it's very low priority, eh? It would be more shocking if he'd just parked there and the cops responded within minutes, don't you agree? I'd be shocked if that were the case.
And yes he certainly thought he was being harassed "for the crime being Black" and looking at it all I'd actually agree.
I said in another comment that usually the people who "play the race card" or scream "I know my rights!" are complete idiots, eh? U-tube is full of videos of them! But this guy doesn't seem to be an idiot, he's just (like you say) pissed off at the cops.