I’ll admit I finessed that question, but it really was moot ... the cop was there and the arresting question is “what happened next?” The former will certainly come up in her lawsuit but once you are under command of a LEO, you must obey. Just ask taser kid. We don’t have the full story and I am willing to give the deputy the benefit of the doubt until there is audio or visual evidence to the contrary. Or at least the arrest report.
When I’m in public, ie, not on my property, I have to comply with a LEO’s commands.
When a LEO is on my property, without a warrant for my arrest or a search of my property, *and* he’s in the employ of someone who is not the sheriff of the county, the situation is rather different. If her lawyer is even marginally competent, this is going to be explained to the sheriff’s department.
If she did not threaten or assault the GTC surveyors, the deputy had nothing to do. It sounds as tho he did realize that he was without the authority of the sheriff’s department, because he called for “backup” - and those deputies then escalated the situation to the ultimate arrest and strip-search.
Given that the woman was on her own property (a matter of significance that many of you are completely missing) and the deputy was in the employ of GTC at the time, I don’t give the benefit of the doubt to the deputy - I give it to the property owner.
That is a BS statement if I have ever heard one.