[wideawake]

Florida law allows police to demand identification if they believe you are loitering.

It's a very broad standard, and by refusing to identify himself he gave these cops a legal excuse to detain him.

This is clearly abusive, but he gave them cover he didn't need to give.

[Ken522]

Florida law allows police to demand identification if they believe you are loitering.

So say you are walking on the sidewalk and a cop demands to see your identification - if you ignore him he can say he thought you were "loitering," "resisting arrest" (by ignoring him), he "feared for his life" because you walked by without genuflecting toward him, which gives this dumb cop carte blanche authority to do whatever he wants to you ... wow!

[SoFloFreeper]

He clearly was not loitering—he was actively involved in videotaping the cops.

This abuse ought to be stopped. Nipped in the bud.

[sport]

You have to show id. when they demand it. You don't have to answer questions, or back when the Government recognized the Constitution, one did not have to answer questions posed to them in a stop and frisk. However, since we are now, by popular demand, a Banana Republic, the police can do to the public whatever they please. As two Mexican ladies delivering newspapers early one morning learned the hard way.

[JRandomFreeper]

In Texas, there is no requirement to show ID, according to Brown v. State of Texas where the supreme court ruled in favor of Brown.

I don't carry ID unless I am driving. Ever.

/johnny