Withholding Identity From a Law Officer: Your Right or Not?

Associated Press ^ | March 23, 2004 | Gina Holland

[cinFLA]

I'll take people's word (here) for the cop not asking the right questions. You have to know how to talk to people, I believe in treating people with respect and dignity.

You take the word of a bunch of guys that have read an error-filled article? Go view the tape. The cop was not perfect but he was dealing with an a$$hole who showed the signs of drinking.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I agree with you.

It is just my observation that people are ruder than they used to be.

[cinFLA]

How can one be guilty of resisting arrest if they aren't also convicted of another crime?

Because the article is wrong.

[muggs]

How can one be guilty of resisting arrest if they aren't also convicted of another crime?

That's something I have always wondered about.

[cinFLA]

If you have done nothing wrong, why should someone be able to hustle you? Many cops love to hustle people. Makes them feel powerful.

Go view the tape and then come back and say that the cop was hustling this a$$hole who had been reported to have been hitting his daughter, displayed signs of drinking and had 'parked' his car via a four-wheel slide on the side of the road at an angle.

[Sweet Land]

Go view the tape.

Link?

[AppyPappy]

Not only that, the guy DEMANDED to be handcuffed. That would have freaked me out immediately. I would have slapped the cuffs on him just to comply with his request.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I saw part of the tape. I said I would have locked him up also, from what I saw. Looked like plenty to go with there. But I haven't seen the whole tape.

[green iguana]

never did he say he wasn't the driver

I haven't seen the whole tape yet. But, I have read enough about the case to know that the original complaint the officer received identified the truck as being driven by a female. And his daughter was still behind the wheel when the officer pulled up.

[American_Centurion]

I don't know if it's a larger percentage of the pop. that's ruder, or if it's just that since the pop. has grown so drastically that the percentage remains the same but we see more of them.

Either way you cut it there are more rude people out there. It just seems to fit that LEO's have to deal with them most, criminals tend to have bad manners.

[TankerKC]

Whatever I felt like at the moment.

There's the problem. Are you a cop?

[from occupied ga]

Slam dunk. Halt! Show papers!

[cinFLA]

Here is a link to the tape but beware. The site is a propaganda piece belonging to Hiibel.

http://www.papersplease.org/hiibel/video.html

[American_Centurion]

I may have been fooled by the fact that the other officers later pulled her out of the passenger side, I guess in retrospect it's possible to pull a driver out of that side in a pickup, but until now that never crossed my mind.

[green iguana]

who had been reported to have been hitting his daughter

He was not reported to have been hitting his daughter. His daughter was hitting him. Try to get your facts right before you spew off calling people names.

[Cap'n Crunch]

18 years.

[cinFLA]

I haven't seen the whole tape yet. But, I have read enough about the case to know that the original complaint the officer received identified the truck as being driven by a female. And his daughter was still behind the wheel when the officer pulled up.

And just where did you read this? On Hiibel's web-site! Ha Ha ha!

[Veracious Poet]

Fascist is as fascist does...

People love licking boots.

[american spirit]

It's important to distinguish between 'constitutional' and 'civil rights'....and I sincerely doubt most gov't. bueaucrats know the difference between the two.

[Defiant]

Sorry, the right to remain silent is in the 5th Amendment. Ever hear of "pleading the 5th"? It's the part that says that a person may not be compelled to be a witness against himself in a criminal case.