Like the 'respect you are showing them here?
I suspect you have lived a rather sheltered life. I also suspect that, well intentioned that you are, that you would readily abrogate your Constitutional rights to avoid confrontation.
No, I would be more selective and wiser then some on when and where I would pick my battles. Being asked for my ID by a cop is not where I would make a stand that could threaten arrest or injury. This is especially true, if I had not committed a crime.
You and others are simply reading far too much into this incident.
Did you ever notice how folks around here start arguing like liberals when they run out of logic?
They start denigrating your experience"
"I suspect you have lived a rather sheltered life. I also suspect that, well intentioned that you are, that you would readily abrogate your Constitutional rights to avoid confrontation."
"There's an Amen Corner here on Free Republic that says that once Americans walk out of their house, they hace NO rights."
They also like taking what you say and rephrasing it in extreme language:
"You're right, they should have Tasered her, sicced the dogs on her, shot her, then arrested her."
"So, people in pre-WWII Germany were not asked for their "papers" while traveling on public streets."
Funny, I don't recall your having made either of those statments. Sure sounds like a liberals arguments to me.