“It’s amazing how many cops don’t know that.”
Oh they know alright. But they don’t care. They are God, you belong to them, and they think they have unquestioned authority over you.
> Oh they know alright. But they don’t care. <
You beat me to it. There are many of YouTube videos of people walking on sidewalks going to work, or whatever. They are stopped by the police. The cop demands ID because the person looks “suspicious”. But the cop cannot articulate a possible crime. Because there is no crime.
“You must present ID when asked by a police officer,” says the cop anyway. That’s a lie, and cops knows it.
Here’s one of the worst videos. An old guy is stopped on a sidewalk. He’s legally blind, and bit grumpy. But it soon becomes crystal clear that he did nothing wrong. So he didn’t want to ID, as is his right. He ended up in cuffs. And then he was taken to jail. Monstrous behavior by the police.
https://youtu.be/SMmiMbJeJjw?si=eELXq5EiOHWY5EmG
I agree that some act that way but let’s not generalize and accuse all cops of being bad apples.