Sure looks like he wanted to do his rollin’ stoned.
An absolute credit to who ever trained her in public relations. As for Bob Dylan, he sure gets a pass on this one. Apart from a vile distorted hit job by the London Daily Mail this was:
Happy ending for all.
“Grandpa?”
So what? I treated rock legend Rod Stewart like a complete unknown when his tour bus fueled up at a truck stop I worked at.
It's not that I didn't know who he was.....I just didn't care.
So now an unarmed, sight-seeing American citizen cannot walk down the street in public in the evening without having on his person state issued ID (once call “papers” in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories). If he cannot identify himself with the required papers, he’ll be involuntarily detained in a police vehicle and taken to a place where he can be identified by finding and presenting state issued ID to the police, or by satisfying them in some other way.
What part of this scenario conforms to the notion of “free country?” What part of it respects the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Why are ever increasing police powers — no knock raids, unlawful search and seizure (as in this case) — not generating a greater outcry from the American people?
Why? Because they’ve been tamed and subdued by Big Brother. The cops — not the citizens — rule the streets, and anyone who doesn’t like it must submit to the billyclub, or should I say, the taser.
Dylan’s constitutional rights were blatantly violated in this incident by kids with badges. That such kids had the power to do what they did should send a shudder down the spine of every freedom loving American.
Didn't those cops know who he was?
What; a white man can't be in a black neighborhood?
Straight up racism, yo!!
Seriously; What the hell was Dylan doing walking around in "the hood"? The cops probably saved his life.
Take the train down from the city
Get sick get well hang around the Inkwell .
Exactly!
Bob Dylan might have been foolish to wander around a tough neighborhood by himself and not to have some sort of I.D. on him but he was hardly mistreated by the young police officer and he certainly acted like a gentleman, minus the egomanical 'Don't you know who I am?" stuff and yelling about harassment Professor Gates displayed in a slightly similar situation just a few weeks ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The irony (and subsequent humor) lies in the fact that this aging, 'legendary' music star (and multi-millionaire) was casually strolling around the rundown, minority-populated neighborhood close to where he was appearing, with no entourage (and no identification). When approached by a police officer and asked for I.D., the 'legend' didn't bristle or complain, he simply gave his name and when that didn't get him any recognition, he meekly went back to his hotel with the officer and was identified, there. No drama, whatsoever.
However, one has to stop and wonder if Bob Dylan was bemused by the fact that his world wide fame was lost on a 20-something police officer in New Jersey.
Good story.
How amazing is it that Bob Dylan cooperated and didn’t claim to be profiled or even harassed! hmm? >>>
there was a time in America when an American citizen could walk on the public sidewalks without having to show his “papers” to the government as they had to do in communist countries.
It’s too bad conservatives don’t know when their civil rights are taken away from them. That’s why we’re all in trouble.
I know anyone can put a keyword in, but am I missing something?
Who is Bob Dylan and why should anyone care if a cop didn’t know him by hs “fame”?
This is America, folks, ain’t no royalty here.
As to being questioned by LEO for walking around, yeah, I don’t like that either, but to get bent over the fact that a cop dosen’t know him? Who cares.
I would not hesitate to ask anyone for ID, even he/she claimed to be famous, even if I recognized them as such. So what. I’m batman too okay?
Best;
