[Red Badger]

Watch the video. Discuss...................

[IronJack]

“Let me see your ID or you will be arrested for failing to provide ID.”

Papieren, schwein!

[Rusty0604]

I didn’t know it was against the law to walk in a street without an ID. What if one of those disenfranchised people that can’t get an ID to vote had to walk in the street to get to the polls?

[trisham]

The cop is mentally unbalanced.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

From the ASU Directory Profile

Assistant professor.

Research Interests:

Contemproary(sic) Rhetorical Theory, Race Critical Theory, Rhetorics of Race & Culture, Composition, Visual and Material Culture Studies.

African American Rhetoric.

[righttackle44]

John Whitehead wrote a commentary documenting the decisions that put the U.S. Supreme Court in lockstep with a coming police state, for The Rutherford Institute. This is a partial quote from his commentary:

It’s a crime to not identify yourself when a policeman asks your name. In Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada (2004), a majority of the high court agreed that refusing to answer when a policeman asks “What’s your name?” can rightfully be considered a crime under Nevada’s “stop and identify” statute. No longer will Americans, even those not suspected of or charged with any crime, have the right to remain silent when stopped and questioned by a police officer.

The cases the Supreme Court refuses to hear, allowing lower court judgments to stand, are almost as critical as the ones they rule on. Some of these cases, turned away in recent years alone, have delivered devastating blows to the rights enshrined in the Constitution.

[The italics are mine.]

[DiogenesLamp]

I side with the woman. The Cop was an arrogant pr*ck.

And since when in America can they demand “Papers” to prove your identity?

We are becoming more totalitarian by the day.

[DManA]

The cops could save themselves so much trouble if they’d just leave people who aren’t hurting anyone alone. Just back off. Let people live their lives.

Is this an impossible dream?

[sport]

She was fortunate that he did not kill her.

[Jabba the Nutt]

I'm calling out all of you "follow the rules" folks. Please defend the female cop, who is after all just enforcing the law.

[plain talk]

The cop got way out of hand but the woman should not have been resisting arrest. They are both assholes. The difference is the cop is a public servant and is trained (supposedly) to deal with jerks.

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[Valpal1]

The process is the punishment. Even if the prosecutor drops all the charges later, it doesn’t unslam you from the pavement.

[Gene Eric]

The request for the ID seemed unnecessary, but it’s required to issue a summons.

The individual’s refusal to cooperate caused the aggravation. I’m having a hard time finding fault with the LEOs on this one.

[Enlightened1]

Just think this is in Arizona where at the very same time the police are ignoring all the illegals flooding their state, but then harassing citizens for jay walking???

[AppyPappy]

English professor, huh.

The cop should have tazed her too.

[Altariel]

“Officer, I told you my name. If you arrest me for failure to provide ID, as though Americans need licenses to walk, you will be in violation of the Constitution as defined by the Supreme Court in Kolender v. Lawson. Not that I would mind—that should result in a very lucrative lawsuit against the department and yourself personally. But I thought I’d warn you...”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolender_v._Lawson

[Frank_2001]

“What part of “NO Jaywalking” do you not understand, peasant?!” /s;)