Silent Mule Man
sitting cow
i don't. police should remain calm, not be confrontational, and then be able to recite most laws w/o being so argumentative. regardless of how a civilian is acting, for the most part. just because a civilian is arguing or even insulting the officer, doesn't mean they just should lose their composure and start putting people in handcuffs.
the civilian in this case didn't know the law, and was arguing and legitimately thought s/he was correct. and then the officer came over and didn't really give a convincing argument. so the civilian continued to protest. maybe the officer should have been more clear. so the problem here is that, the civilian needed to show id, but the problem is that the officer didn't really ask for it in a clear way.
I don't understand this criticism. I had no problem understanding what the officer was saying.
there are many more others who think the officer was being unclear.
here's what he said:
"there's probable cause for us to be out here. i want to know who you are. so i'm requesting your id. you fail to id, i'm gonna take you into jail. and that's law.
....you're not being charged with anything. you're involved in an investigation. you wanna interfere with an investigation? you're going to jail for interfering with police officer performance investigation. do you understand that?"
here's how he should have been more clear:
"there's probable cause for us to be out here. i want to know who you are. "
okay he doesn't cite the law here. he said "i want to know who you are" ...how is that supposed to convince someone who is arguing about what the law is. what police officer says he wants is irrelevant.
"so i'm requesting your id. you fail to id, i'm gonna take you into jail. and that's law."
you fail to id? ...
and that's law? if a civilian said something like this they'd be accused of being drunk or on drugs. obviously that is poor communication. i don't really need to explain that.
"....you're not being charged with anything. you're involved in an investigation. you wanna interfere with an investigation? you're going to jail for interfering with police officer performance investigation. do you understand that?"
actually it looked like the civilian did not want to interfere with the investigation, or wanted any part in it...that's why, yknow, the officer had to pester him for id.
didn't the officer mean to say the exact opposite of this? lol
and it's not so much the poor communication in and of itself i have a problem with. it's the poor communication then arresting someone for failing to understand what you have to say, when you're just shitty at communicating.
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i mean, how do you handle someone who is breaking a law but doesn't know they are? and it's such a small law to break anyways...okay so this guy didn't know he was doing any wrong and also...failed to show his ID...so you handcuff him? so police are gonna start handcuffing people who speed? that's ridiculous.
She was a witness to a crime. She chose not to identify herself, and by doing so intentionally interfered with the officer's investigation, and for that she was arrested.
actually it was unintentionally. and actually she didn't interfere. she was literally doing the exact opposite of that. lol.
and yeah...i know? i just think it's a stupid law to arrest someone over.