Cops on cam
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Erickdesmond1978 :
3 cops come out after him
2026-09-11 04:02:30
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allamerican2355 :
Imagine if these 3 plainclothes officers approached someone who actually had PTSD from prison, military service, or a serious traumatic life experience. The way this situation was handled could have turned a tense encounter into something much more dangerous. Look at the problems with the approach: plainclothes officers surrounding someone, multiple officers closing in at the same time, inadequate communication, and an approach that could reasonably make a person feel threatened or trapped. If you’re standing there exercising a constitutionally protected activity and suddenly have three men surrounding you, how are you supposed to immediately know who they are, what authority they have, or what they want from you? I don’t have PTSD from prison, the military, or anything like that. But if I were in his position and three unfamiliar men were circling around me, I could absolutely perceive that as a threat and react very differently. And this is where the constitutional issue matters. The First Amendment protects activities such as freedom of the press and gathering information in public, and courts have recognized protections for recording police officers performing their duties in public. That doesn’t give someone immunity from otherwise lawful police action—but officers don’t get to simply create their own rules because they don’t like what a person is doing. If there was no reasonable suspicion of a crime and this person was simply exercising his First Amendment rights, then the officers needed to be able to clearly explain the lawful basis for stopping or detaining him. The Supreme Court has made clear that a police detention has to be justified at its inception and reasonably related in scope to the circumstances that justified it. Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court also makes clear that identification requirements can depend on whether there is a lawful investigative stop and applicable state law. (Legal Information Institute) So the bigger issue here isn’t simply, “He wouldn’t identify himself.” The real question is: Why were they stopping him in the first place? What crime or reasonable suspicion justified the detention? Were they clearly ident
2026-09-11 13:45:56
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