I was on a grand jury, long ago, and the cop being questioned had pulled a young girl over for a traffic infraction. She got pissy, and said she didn’t want to talk to the cop. She rolled up her window and drove home. He followed her...she drove slowly, and obeyed the laws of the road. When she got out in front of her house, he cuffed her, and read her her rights. It was pretty cut and dried...we issued a true bill for attempting to elude. It probably got tossed before it went to trial, but she probably learned something. Some of the cop shootings these days are from people turning near-nothing events into felonies.
> If they [the police] said “Hey, you!” I’d stop, and ask what they wanted. <
I probably would as well. But here’s the thing. Too many cops will escalate from there, and lie to you. “You are required to show ID whenever a police officer asks for it.”
That is a lie. It is a lie in every state in the Union. Some people will be intimidated, and give up their ID. That alone can get you entered into a national database. Who the hell wants that?
And if you don’t show ID, the cop might back down. Or he might arrest and cuff you for “obstructing justice”, or some other bogus thing. Anyone who doubts that the latter happens need only do a Google search for it.