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Re: ACLU tangles with Philadelphia MTA over rail photography
Author: Still Not Joe
Date: 06-01-2011 - 17:19
Joe Wrote:
>
> Now, if you choose to not provide ID to the police
> under your belief that you don't have to, then go
> right ahead and do that. If you feel it's worth
> getting arrested, that's your decision. As I said
> previously, I think the officers blew it by not
> escorting him off MTA property and issuing a
> trespassing warning.
Isn't it interesting that despite your armchair lawyering credentials that apparently qualify you as "arbiter and knower of all things Philadelphia Lawyer-like", the police in question did NOT, in fact, arrest Chris, nor do any of the other stupid things you mention, because, in fact, you don't need to even have an ID on you. For driving you need a license of course. But you do NOT in fact need to carry an ID or papers here in the US of A! Read the links people are providing you pal...in a free country, we are indeed actually free to do any lawful thing we want. And that includes not providing an ID when a police officer asks, when we are doing no wrong. Sure the police can screw up and detain you, etc...but as this situation shows, they are wrong to do so and will get corrected about it, provided the detained person exercises their rights and refuses, as Chris did. And golly gee ya know what? The police realized that and let him go. FACT, JOE.
>
> Now, if you choose to not provide ID to the police
> under your belief that you don't have to, then go
> right ahead and do that. If you feel it's worth
> getting arrested, that's your decision. As I said
> previously, I think the officers blew it by not
> escorting him off MTA property and issuing a
> trespassing warning.
Isn't it interesting that despite your armchair lawyering credentials that apparently qualify you as "arbiter and knower of all things Philadelphia Lawyer-like", the police in question did NOT, in fact, arrest Chris, nor do any of the other stupid things you mention, because, in fact, you don't need to even have an ID on you. For driving you need a license of course. But you do NOT in fact need to carry an ID or papers here in the US of A! Read the links people are providing you pal...in a free country, we are indeed actually free to do any lawful thing we want. And that includes not providing an ID when a police officer asks, when we are doing no wrong. Sure the police can screw up and detain you, etc...but as this situation shows, they are wrong to do so and will get corrected about it, provided the detained person exercises their rights and refuses, as Chris did. And golly gee ya know what? The police realized that and let him go. FACT, JOE.
