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That's it! Yep you did. I asked you two questions and you answered neither of them. I asked you for ID and you're not giving it to me. At this point, I'M bitch-slapping the kid as I'm pulling him from the car -- which is why I'm not a cop.

And hopefully you live a hermetic life, since you would appear to be like the perp and get abusive when you do not get your way with others.

The kid was uncooperative, evasive, combative, a smart ass, and a jerk, wasting the time of a cop who -- up to this point -- has been polite.

No the citizen was reasonably declining to give information to the LEO that he was not required to provide. If he was older and smoother, the perp might have been more restrained and kept his job. Instead he used the victim's youth as an excuse to go off like Krakatoa.

Now you may say he wasn't required to give the cop this or that. Fine. Then why did he eventually tell the cop why he was there and why did he eventually show his ID?

In the later interview it seemed to me he was in fear of a armed raving lunatic who's word would automatically be taken over his. In his circumstances, most of us would say anything necessary to escape and expose the perp on the recording we knew was underway.

All in all the perp took the hit, and that is a good thing.

"In the later interview it seemed to me he was in fear of a armed raving lunatic"

So much for principles; "You have no right to this information -- unless you yell at me."

Just tell the truth (since it seems you have all the answers) -- by that time the punk had what he needed on tape.

No the citizen was reasonably declining to give information to the LEO that he was not required to provide. If he was older and smoother, the perp might have been more restrained and kept his job. Instead he used the victim's youth as an excuse to go off like Krakatoa.

I like your style.