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"I could have told him right then that I was a journalist.

But instead you decided to lie, thus wasting their time and getting you this crappy story.

I pointedly asked whether I had been detained because I was African American or whether I looked Middle Eastern.

Liberalism 101 - Play the race card play it often, play it loud.

This guy is real lucky he ran into some very nice officers, who did their job in a professional manner. A lot of Policemen would have ran his sorry ass downtown in a proverbial NY minute for being such a smart ass. And they would have been justified in doing so

Washigton Police should bill the Post for the time this jerk wasted.

"A lot of Policemen would have ran his sorry ass downtown in a proverbial NY minute for being such a smart ass. And they would have been justified in doing so."

Justified? Hardly! Time to bone up on your Constitutional Law, my friend. Last time I looked being a "smart ass" is not against the law. Anyway, his questions in response to his questions didn't seem particularly smart-assy. But some folks think that anything short of groveling before the glorious police is acting like a smart ass.

They work for us, and we have the right to ask cops why they are requesting I.D. or asking us questions, and we have the right to expect a polite, prompt, and truthful answer to our questions.