Have you been stopped for walking in the road? I haven’t.
No, because I walk on the sidewalks. And I certainly have enough sense to not hassle guys in pickup trucks while afoot.
Guy in the truck should have gotten fairly close to her and blasted the horn. See how good those earbuds really were, and how loud she had the ‘music’ turned up.
I have. When I was walking home from school at night. No way the cop knew I was a kid at 6’2” 200lbs. Usually they gave me a ride the rest of the way as we lived out in the country.
I walk in our quiet road numerous times, tons of people do, and I’ve never been stopped once.
We WERE actually rudely accosted by a homeowner once who asked what we were doing on “his” street, and demanded to see our ID’s! I told him the streets were public property and there’s no way I was going to show him ID.
I think the stop by the cops was strange, bikes ride on the street, same direction as the traffic, and that’s legal, why is a person walking the same direction illegal?
And I don’t think it’s mandatory that she produce ID. This wasn’t a Terry stop and she wasn’t legally required to produce her “papieren, bitte schoen!”
And the “xxx while Black,” that DOES happen. I know someone who is black, in a small town where she’s probably one of 50 black people, and that happens to her a lot...
Ed