“Duh! An American is required by law to show their identification credentials when asked by a LEO. Refusal results in arrest.”
Wrong.
It is an interesting item. The cops were called because a man and a woman were kissing on the sidewalk. The man is a tatted up white guy and the woman is a thin black girl in shorts. The call probably said there is a “working girl” and her “John” on the street in front of my business swapping spit.
the cops show up and the girl is on the phone and can’t be bothered. Her husband figures it out and hand over his ID and the cops cuff the uncooperative wife.
Perfect storm of conceptions, assumptions and attitude. If she would have put herself in the cops position, knowing he was showing up due to a call, she could have gotten rid of her anger toward whoever called and in 20 seconds the cop would have been gone. Likewise the husband could have handed over his ID like he did but introduced his wife, “officer, this is my wife who thinks who ever called and complained is a racist” and the incident would have ended.
Those events didn’t play out that way and boom — perfect storm of assumptions by all parties.