I just watched a vid where a guy was wearing a mask on the sidewalk, cop said it's not illegal but then unlawfully demanded ID. One of the jackasses in the comments asked how it's a violation of your rights for a cop to demand ID like that…. His pic is of him in uniform, he's in the military. No concept whatsoever of the 4th amendment.
Yep… and unfortunately many cops think the same. They unlawfully arrest for "refusing to ID" when the person doesn't have to, but the cop faces no accountability for his crime…. so the cops have no incentive to actually follow the law. The taxpayer pays their victim and they themselves face no consequences.
>A judge told me once, "ignorance of the law is no defense"
Yet those same judges claim ignorance of the law is a defense for law enforcement… as long as there's no similar case with very similar circumstances where a cop was found to have violated rights then they "couldn't reasonably know" they were violating rights.
I still remember watching a case, and I really wish I could find the video, where a cop ordered a man out of the car and then physically blocked him from opening the door to get out. He then yanked him out, tazed him etc for failing to obey.
They honestly argued for QI and to show the case that says he can't do that.
No, not at all. Cops are unlawfully demanding ID for no suspected crime a LOT.
For example, many videos on youtube of auditors standing on a public sidewalk recording a bank… the cops demand ID and will arrest over failure to ID.
Now tell me what crime they suspect.
False. "Suspicious" is not enough to detain and/or ID someone, there must be reasonable articulable suspicion OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY based on a totality of circumstances.
You don't get to deem a constitutionally protected activity as "suspicious" and violate rights because you deem it suspicious.
Recording cars and license plates from a sidewalk is constitutionally protected, whether you like it or not.
>Vagrancy will work
No it wont.
Can't turn a constitutionally protected activity into a crime. Their activity must serve no "legitimate purpose" and their constitutional right to record in public is a legit purpose.
Who told you that you're required to carry ID?
Why would you give up your 4th amendment right?
"You would have no power over me unless given to you from above, therefor the one who handed me over to you is guilty of the greater sin"
"All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me"
Thanks I'll check it out.
Well said.
>“Captain” Kelly knows exactly what he did, and that he will be held to account.
Are you talking about his free speech?
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Ah… you think the mark is a physical one huh?
Nope.