Absolutely! No reason to detain him period.
parsy, who says the cops here and in Gates acted stupidly
I don’t know NJ’s laws, but someone had called the cops on Dylan so the female cop was suspicious of him and actually thought he was a nut for claiming he was Dylan...but had no ID. She didn’t arrest him, she gave him a ride to his bus so he could produce the ID, even though she thought he was feeding her a line of bull.
“I agree with you about Gates but this cop broke the law. You have to have reasonable suspicion to detain someone and he did not.”
Exactly what I was thinking. Since when do the cops have the right to even QUESTION you if all you’re doing is walking down the street - much less refuse to let you go on your way once you answer their questions? Regardless of what it feels like with these Socialist Pigs in power - we’re not in Nazi Germany YET, and we don’t HAVE to carry our “papers” with us to prove who we are and what our business is... or DO WE???
Frequently whites who turn up in poor black neighborhoods are there to do drug deals or are looking for prostitutes, which is obviously what the resident who reported him thought. The police often detain them long enough to get their ID because this discourages them from coming back and encouraging problem behavior in these neighborhoods, which the law abiding residents do not like. The residents often request this from “community policing” programs.
That said, Dylan acted in a very civilized, non-celeb manner. None of this “Do you know who I am?” from him!
So what. Is it a requirement that Cops know who leftwing moonbats demi god rock stars are?
And the cop did have a right to ask him for ID. He was lurking around where a person normally wouldn't, which is cause for suspicion.