‘Why should we show you our ID — are you arresting us?’
the cop has to write up his report that’s why he wants to know who you are....if you don’t want to tell who you are then you go to jail until you feel like identifying yourself....I’m glad the cops used force ....I think they were being baited by this couple.
It just seems that alot of people were suddenly standing around as sympathetic witnesses.
I reminds me of a case up here in the Western Washington. An arrest was taking place, the subjects tried to flee. A cop or two ran them down and put them under arrest. The arrestee’s later filed suit and had a witness that a local tv news producer had “found” to testify as to the extreme brutality of the officers. Finally in court it was revealed that the “witness” was not even in the same town at the time off the incident. When asked why he had lied he said that he just wanted to help the guys and he hated cops. BTW, the producer who found and promoted this “witness” went on to a very lucrative career producing for Dan Rather. Well lucrative right up until she found him those fake but accurate documents.....
The point is; who are the witnesses? I wonder how many of them were there waiting for an incident and how many came by later to give an account that would further the earning potential of the couple.
It smells like a set up to me. By their way of thinking, if you just remove yourself from the officers presence you are no longer in jeopardy of receiving a citation or possible arrest. By that logic, if a person can out run a cop for something minor then he or she is home free. Wish I had thought of that when I got a seat belt ticket last week.
Interesting.
Many times LEOs go to a disturbance, ie: loud music, dog barking: to quiet a party, etc and generally the LEO will just go to the door and advise the residence to keep it down, advise them of a complaint on the dog, or to turn down the music, etc...In all of these cases or incidents such as this, LEOs generally will never demand, or even ask to see the ID of the resident.
A traffic stop is another issue...But this was such a minor complaint, that unnecessarily escalated. Based on the witness statements in the article, it does not look good for the LEO here as it appears they took down the flag and complied.
That would be the only thing necessary to document in a report...ie: Responded to complaint call at 123 Elm street, and the occupants complied with request to remove the flag.