[Altariel]

@elviswinehouse now rt @TrueWorldOrder2 Soldiers require citizens to present their papers as they walk the streets of Soviet Boston. pic.twitter.com/iSjmv8UHB8

Since they know exactly what the guy they are looking for looks like, what earthly excuse do they have for this?

[ClearCase_guy]

It's all really just practice. I expect to see a lot more of this in the next couple of years.

"Papers, bitte."

[353FMG]

Intimidation.

Aussweis bitte.

[Travis McGee]

Is that a Military Policeman checking a citizen’s ID?

Does that dude look like 19 year old Suspect #2?

[Flick Lives]

Fashion emergency for MP dude #2; swap the nerd glasses for some Oakleys.

[CodeToad]

Military Police stopping people? That is Martial law, not “Shelter in Place”. I’d told them to piss off and kept walking. The lawsuit would let me retire.

[CodeToad]

Is that a Martini glass that soldier has for a patch? Must be National Guard.

[tanknetter]

Since they know exactly what the guy they are looking for looks like, what earthly excuse do they have for this?

Possibly that the guy is trying to enter a secured zone and they're trying to ascertain his reason for being there.

A few years back there was a really big and bad thunderstorm that moved through the area where I lived during rush hour. A LOT of trees down, and power lines with them. Plus flash flooding. The police had roads blocked off, including one that I normally cut through as a shortcut in getting home, and were turning back anyone who couldn't produce a driver's license saying that they lived down them.

For people who were listening to the streaming police scanner last night, they should recall the traffic about how the press were trying to get into the area that had been cordoned off. In that kind of situation NO ONE other than someone who had real business being there (like police, and possibly homeowners) should have been allowed to pass.