[gondramB]

>>They should have sent in the SWAT team and smoked them out with tear gas and pepperballs.<<

You really should have a crime first before you do that.

This was their flag and they were making apolitical statement.

That is was a political I don’t agree with doesn’t change that the supreme court has been really clear on this. The cop was wrong to come into their house without permission.

[Pontiac]

After knocking on the door, the couple answered it and, after being shown the statute, said they complied and took the flag down. Scarborough then asked for their identification.

He kept wanting to see our ID. We refused. We said, ‘Why should we show you our ID — are you arresting us?’; so we walked back into the house and closed the door.”

In most states (perhaps all) if a LEO investigating a crime asks for your ID you are required to produce it.

When the Kuhns retreated in to there home and locked the door it constituted fleeing and resisting arrest.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Some of the above posters probably cheered as Mt Carmel burned, with the children inside.

[Constantine XIII]

I’m with you. Unfortunately, there’s no law against being a dumbass. The cops are going to be in for it when the flesh-eating lawyers arrive.