[quote=CA renter]scaredy, clearly your knowledge about a person’s right to walk away from cops when they are being questioned is far greater than mine. I will defer to you on that.
But if that’s the case, what’s to stop anyone from walking away from a cop when they are being questioned? What’s to stop a mass murderer from walking away when a cop stops them? That makes no sense at all.
And I think that a misdemeanor assault charge is fairly reasonable (my guess is that this is for political cover, as many people would say that even this charge would be unjustified), but nothing beyond that.[/quote]
The fact that someone is a mass murderer, without more, doesn’t give the police the right to detain you. The police need to have specific articulable facts to support a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or was going to be committed. not a hunch. actual facts. that’s what we call “freedom”. if the police can detain you without any facts that you’ve done anything wrong, just cause they have a vibe then , well, this is not a free country.
In reality, of course, the police can make up some facts after they’ve arrested you, so it doesnt really provide all that much protection, unless there’s a video. there’s a slang name for this; it’s called “test-i-lying”.
