Well, he was committing a crime, so he wasn’t doing nothing.
It is irrelevant if someone is committing a crime. The only relevanc is if law enforcement has probable cause that a person is committing a crime.
The Founding Fathers made sure to hamstring police against fishing expeditions and witch hunts. They had been subject to enough tyranny where police stopped people for no reason or searched their homes for no reason. I am sure we could find tons more cime being committed if we let police go down every street and just break in doors and search houses at randon.
That is not allowed by the US constituion. Bending over and tying your shoe, which is the “suspicious activity” this guy was stopped by police for doing, is not probable cause or reasonable suspicion.
I watched a lot of Live PD before it was cancelled by the woke crowd. It always sickened me when the cops stopped some guy just standing around or sitting in a parked car and called it “suspicious activitiy”. I have spent hours and hours just sitting in a car listening to radio, just to get out of the house. If that is suspicious activity, then nobody is safe from unreasonable search and seizure.
It doesn’t matter if someone is committing a crime. It only matters if the police reasonably suspect a person of committing a crime.
You would think this would be obvious after the Mueller Report and the entire Russia Collusion witch hunt, whicn amounts to the same thing. Law Enforcement illegally searched the US President with zero evidence amounting to reasonable suspicion.
The rest of us should be equally free from that kind of abuse.