COPS play DUMB to force compliance! .. Detained on Sketchy grounds | Unlawful?  Illegal?  Immoral?
Channel: LocalBroadcast
Date: 2020-12-24

Had a couple law enforcement officers show up while we were at an atm machine.  They told us a couple months ago my vehicle was seen on video in a parking lot picking up a passenger who had been in the store shoplifting.  They said since the shoplifter was a female, they could ask for the identification of any female passenger they see in my vehicle from here on out until the suspected shoplifter is caught.  I'm confused by the logic though because they openly admitted that they had not gotten any briefing on what the shoplifter actually looked like.. at all!  No description whatsoever other than the gender.  How they thought running my friends ID would be able to result in a positive identification on the spot is bewildering logic.. and really we all know it's just another example of cops playing dumb in order to justify doing things they have no other lawful reason for doing.  They wanted to see if my friend had warrants out since we had just left a rather shady motel a couple blocks away and it was obvious they were trying to get something on one of us.  The police vehicle they were in was an unmarked undercover vehicle with stealth lights and sirens built in.

I got a bit lippy at the end, but it really doesn't sit well with me when cops do stuff like this to bend the rules.  Honestly who else here agrees that I should now be subject to being pulled over and having any female passenger in my car forced to identify themselves and show ID, using the justification that a female shoplifter who had been in my vehicle 3 months ago might still be in the vehicle???

Again.. these officers didn't have a suspect description at all.  It could have been a transvestite female.  Are they going to stretch their ridiculous justifications to also include any passenger in my vehicle who just might possibly resemble a transvestite female, or a male with feminine features?  Or a female with male features?  Or to put it simply, any human at all, because you never know 100% until you run that ID card, right?

Looking forward to the comments on this one ! 

I'm not an auditor or a cop follower or chaser or harasser or investigator or a black lives matter advocate or a lgbt or gay rights advocate or a gender issues sympathizer or a social justice warrior sjw but I do have white male privilege as well as white male suffrage and white male injustice and in some situations I suffer from being subjected to white male minority stigma... and sometimes am subjected to white male majority stigma.. and sometimes am subjected to male female sexual partner right to selection inequality.. But other than all that, I'm just a standard dude who doesn't like power trippers and try to help put out content when I can that shows others how you can safely and politely stand up for yourself and keep yourself from getting arrested or assaulted by police.